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  • Kevon K. Hayes 255 posts 281 karma points
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 22:09
    Kevon K. Hayes
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    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?

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 22:22
    Lee Kelleher
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    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.

  • Tim 1193 posts 2675 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 22:57
    Tim
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    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.

  • Kevon K. Hayes 255 posts 281 karma points
    Jul 22, 2010 @ 00:11
    Kevon K. Hayes
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    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?

  • tentonipete 78 posts 223 karma points
    Jan 12, 2011 @ 19:37
  • Kevon K. Hayes 255 posts 281 karma points
    Jan 16, 2011 @ 15:51
    Kevon K. Hayes
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    Thanks, I'm using SortSite by PowerMapper now.  However, the above looks cool enough to heck out. 

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