- From: Nick Kew <nick@midgard.webthing.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:54:49 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Jim Winkle <jwinkle@doit.wisc.edu>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org, gerald@w3.org
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jim Winkle wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm in the process of making a website conform to Priority 2 > (conformance level AA). It appears to me that the Validator > service does only Priority 1, The two services are fundamentally different. The Validator is a formally rigorous test of HTML correctness, whereas Bobby is a set of essentially ad-hoc tests of conformance to a diverse range of accessibility criteria. > doesn't. Is this correct? Is there a way to turn on Priority 2 > checking with Validator as there is with Bobby? Yes and no. You can validate for accessibility at a more demanding level by declaring a stricter DTD in your documents. The WDG DTD[1] is designed for accessibility, and is probably the nearest thing to "level 2" you'll get from a validator at present. The Page Valet[2] integrates that into a validator similar to the W3C service. [1] http://www.htmlhelp.org/design/dtd/ [2] http://valet.wething.com/page/ -- Nick Kew
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