solecist
03-07-2006, 01:46 PM
I got a review from SilkTide of my site and they reported errors about usability. You can read the errors at this link (http://www.silktide.com/index.php?node=18444&form2=1&staticq=1&f2_url=http%3A%2F%2Fneilcowley.com)
Can someone explain to me what that's about and how I can correct it. I'm using Dreamweaver.
Thanks
Neil
Webnauts
03-08-2006, 07:43 AM
SilkTide is complaining about web content accessibility guidelines violations.
iwebgeek
03-22-2006, 04:39 PM
Usually that means including alt elements in tags to assist blind people in reading your webpage.
I'd read up on it at the W3C (http://www.w3.org)
Also, code your pages in XHTML if possible.
For comparison, you can access my site report here: SilkTide report (http://www.silktide.com/index.php?node=18444&form_refresh_single=0&form2=1&f2_url=www.oclumber.com&f2_ok=OK&pagetree=&editSessionid=&objectid=)
I know it gives bad marks for marketing, we haven't launched any marketing efforts yet. But the content and accessibility marks were good-excellent
Webnauts
04-13-2006, 02:17 AM
According to Silktide:
"All pages were found in violation of the current W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines."
Webpage http://neilcowley.com
12 errors found - only displaying first 10 (see all results)
Line 4, column 68: character data is not allowed here
Line 7, column 108: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 8, column 109: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 9, column 118: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 10, column 22: document type does not allow element "STYLE" here
Line 122, column 6: end tag for element "HEAD" which is not open
Line 123, column 139: document type does not allow element "BODY" here
Line 130, column 30: there is no attribute "HEIGHT"
Line 133, column 109: required attribute "ALT" not specified
Line 135, column 113: required attribute "ALT" not specified
Line 138, column 107: required attribute "ALT" not specified
Webpage http://neilcowley.com/index.html
12 errors found - only displaying first 10 (see all results)
Line 4, column 68: character data is not allowed here
Line 7, column 108: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 8, column 109: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 9, column 118: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 10, column 22: document type does not allow element "STYLE" here
Line 122, column 6: end tag for element "HEAD" which is not open
Line 123, column 139: document type does not allow element "BODY" here
Line 130, column 30: there is no attribute "HEIGHT"
Line 133, column 109: required attribute "ALT" not specified
Line 135, column 113: required attribute "ALT" not specified
Line 138, column 107: required attribute "ALT" not specified
Webpage http://neilcowley.com/weddings/
27 errors found - only displaying first 10 (see all results)
Line 1, column 0: no document type declaration; implying "<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>"
Line 21, column 108: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 22, column 109: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 23, column 118: document type does not allow element "LINK" here
Line 24, column 44: document type does not allow element "META" here
Line 25, column 29: required attribute "TYPE" not specified
Line 41, column 29: required attribute "TYPE" not specified
Line 114, column 29: required attribute "TYPE" not specified
Line 132, column 51: document type does not allow element "META" here
Line 133, column 41: document type does not allow element "META" here
Line 134, column 42: document type does not allow element "META" here
Webpage http://neilcowley.com/b2/index.php
126 errors found - only displaying first 10 (see all results)
Line 346, column 106: end tag for element "p" which is not open
Line 421, column 22: document type does not allow element "style" here
Line 429, column 93: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "zg_person_id"
Line 429, column 93: general entity "zg_person_id" not defined and no default entity
Line 429, column 105: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 429, column 105: reference to entity "zg_person_id" for which no system identifier could be generated
Line 429, column 92: entity was defined here
Line 430, column 205: document type does not allow element "iframe" here
Line 431, column 66: document type does not allow element "div" here
Line 431, column 190: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
Line 431, column 195: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
Webpage http://neilcowley.com/people/
10 errors found
Line 83, column 17: there is no attribute "src"
Line 83, column 36: there is no attribute "width"
Line 83, column 49: there is no attribute "height"
Line 83, column 63: there is no attribute "quality"
Line 83, column 76: there is no attribute "scale"
Line 83, column 91: there is no attribute "type"
Line 83, column 135: there is no attribute "pluginspage"
Line 83, column 186: there is no attribute "name"
Line 83, column 196: element "embed" undefined
Line 87, column 12: value of attribute "id" invalid: "5" cannot start a name
Have a look how I am doing (http://www.silktide.com/index.php?node=18444&form_refresh_single=0&form2=1&f2_url=www.webnauts.net&f2_ok=OK&pagetree=&editSessionid=&objectid=).