SortSite 4.4 Changes

A list of changed accessibility, compatibility and search engine rules in SortSite 4.4.

Changed rules

Accessibility

• Image has no accessible name (AccHtmlImgNoAlt)
• PDF graphic has no accessible name (AccPdfImgAltMissing)
• Layout table contains data table markup (AccHtmlLayoutTableStructuralMarkup)
• Layout table contains summary or caption (AccHtmlLayoutTableCaptionSummary)
• Link target opens new window without warning (AccHtmlLinkTargetNew)
• Frame title must describe function (AccHtmlFrameTitleNotDescriptive)
• Document title is blank (AccPageBlankTitle)
• PDF not tagged (AccWcag2-1.3.1-1)
• Script opens new window without warning (AccWcag2-F37-1)
• Justified text is hard to read (AccWcag2-F88-1)

Compatibility

• alink and vlink attributes have partial support (BugHtmlBodyLink)
• ismap attribute has partial support (BugHtmlImgIsmap)
• :visited selector has partial support (BugCssSelectorVisited)
• Flash no longer supported (BugAdobeFlash)
• document.write does not work in XHTML pages (BugXhtmlDocWrite)
• innerHTML does not work in XHTML pages (BugXhtmlInnerHtml)
• text-shadow: property has partial support (BugCssTextShadow)
• Image maps with id but no name have partial support (BugMozillaImageMap)
• basefont element is not supported (BugMozillaHtmlBasefont)

Search

• Document head errors affect indexing (SeoHtmlValidation)
• JavaScript redirects may be penalized (SeoJavaScriptRedirects)

Usability

• Add a table of contents to long pages (UseGov7.3)
• Partition long data items (UseGov13.12)