SortSite 2.0 Changes

A list of changed accessibility, compatibility and search engine rules in SortSite 2.0.

Changed rules

Errors

• Soft 404 for missing pages (ErrHttpBroken404Handler)
• Wrong MIME type (ErrHttpMimeType)
• Links blocked by robots.txt (ErrCrawlBlockedByRobotsTxt)
• Links blocked by Blocked Links box (ErrCrawlBlockedByPrefs)

Accessibility

• Applet with no fallback content (AccHtmlAppletNoFallback)
• Image map has no accessible name (AccHtmlAreaNoAlt)
• Image has no accessible name (AccHtmlImgNoAlt)
• alt is image file name (AccHtmlImgAltFilename)
• Graphic button has no accessible name (AccHtmlInputImageNoAlt)
• Object with no fallback content (AccHtmlObjectNoFallback)
• ASCII art used for text alternative (AccHtmlImgAltAsciiArt)
• Image accessible name uses placeholder (AccHtmlImgAltPlaceholder)
• Data table without th headers (AccHtmlTableNoHeaders)
• Complex header associations need headers attribute (AccHtmlTableComplexHeaders)
• CSS position: causes meaningless sequence (AccCssMeaninglessSequence)
• Scrolling marquee element (AccHtmlMarquee)
• Flashing blink element (AccHtmlBlink)
• Server-side image maps are inaccessible (AccHtmlImgIsmap)
• mouseup handler without keyboard equivalent (AccScriptMouseupNoKeyboard)
• mouseover handler without keyboard equivalent (AccScriptMouseoverNoKeyboard)
• mouseout handler without keyboard equivalent (AccScriptMouseoutNoKeyboard)
• mousedown handler without keyboard equivalent (AccScriptMousedownNoKeyboard)
• click handler without keyboard equivalent (AccScriptClickWithoutKeypress)
• dblclick handler without keyboard equivalent (AccScriptDblclickNoKeyboard)
• Frame has no accessible name (AccHtmlFrameTitleMissing)
• Frame title is frame file name (AccHtmlFrameTitleFilename)
• Frame title must describe function (AccHtmlFrameTitleNotDescriptive)

Compatibility

• bgsound element is unsupported (BugNonStdBgsound)
• blink element is unsupported (BugNonStdBlink)
• comment element is unsupported (BugNonStdComment)
• ilayer element is unsupported (BugNonStdILayer)
• keygen element has very limited support (BugNonStdKeygen)
• layer element is unsupported (BugNonStdLayer)
• ruby element has partial support (BugHtmlRuby)
• xml element is unsupported (BugNonStdXml)
• div src attribute is unsupported (BugNonStdDivSrc)
• img dynsrc attribute is unsupported (BugNonStdImgDynsrc)
• img controls attribute is unsupported (BugNonStdImgControls)
• img loop attribute is unsupported (BugNonStdImgLoop)
• img start attribute is unsupported (BugNonStdImgStart)
• topmargin attribute has partial support (BugNonStdBodyTopmargin)
• leftmargin attribute has partial support (BugNonStdBodyLeftmargin)
• view-source: URL scheme has partial support (BugViewSourceProtocol)

Search

• Hidden single pixel links may be penalized (SeoSpamSinglePixelLink)
• Bad neighborhood keyword found (SeoSpamBadNeighbourhoodKeywords)

Usability

• Provide descriptive page titles (UseGov9.2.3)
• Ensure one radio button is always selected (UseGov13.23.2)
• img width and height attributes don’t match the image size (UseImgWidthHeightScaled)
• Page has a high reading age (UseGunningFog)