Could someone suggest how one could check a page prior to publishing that specific tags have specific attributes. In the W3 Abstract for WAI standards it stated how all tags should have ids and proper description attributes e.g. alt tags for images, summary for tables etc... what would be the best way to achieve this?
As far as I am aware, there isn't an automated way of doing this before publishing a content page. You could take the preview URL (via the preview button on the content editor - next to Save & Publish) and put that through the W3 validators? (That is if your website is publicly accessible?)
The main problem with a lot of the accessibility guidelines is that over half of them are subjective, so can't be checked automatically. There are some programs that will check for the absolute things (like missing alt tags) and will flag pages with script for manual check etc, but these are mostly desktop based.
That said, you could use an online checking service, like http://www.cynthiasays.com/ which is sort of like a WAI version of the W3C validator. Its possible to get the rendered HTML of the page using the umbraco API, so you could code a button in the CMS that allows you to run the page against the service.
Awesome I believe this is what I'll do then thanks using either validator, I hope they support REST Calls. However, would you know which UMB namespaces to target for coding such?
Accessibility Checking in Umbraco
All,
Could someone suggest how one could check a page prior to publishing that specific tags have specific attributes. In the W3 Abstract for WAI standards it stated how all tags should have ids and proper description attributes e.g. alt tags for images, summary for tables etc... what would be the best way to achieve this?
Hi Kevon,
As far as I am aware, there isn't an automated way of doing this before publishing a content page. You could take the preview URL (via the preview button on the content editor - next to Save & Publish) and put that through the W3 validators? (That is if your website is publicly accessible?)
http://validator.w3.org/
Cheers, Lee.
The main problem with a lot of the accessibility guidelines is that over half of them are subjective, so can't be checked automatically. There are some programs that will check for the absolute things (like missing alt tags) and will flag pages with script for manual check etc, but these are mostly desktop based.
That said, you could use an online checking service, like http://www.cynthiasays.com/ which is sort of like a WAI version of the W3C validator. Its possible to get the rendered HTML of the page using the umbraco API, so you could code a button in the CMS that allows you to run the page against the service.
Awesome I believe this is what I'll do then thanks using either validator, I hope they support REST Calls. However, would you know which UMB namespaces to target for coding such?
this could also be useful
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/add-accessibility-checker-to-umbraco-tinymce
Thanks, I'm using SortSite by PowerMapper now. However, the above looks cool enough to heck out.
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