SortSite 5.0 Changes

A list of changed accessibility, compatibility and search engine rules in SortSite 5.0.

Changed rules

Accessibility

Image has no accessible name (AccHtmlImgNoAlt)
alt is image file name (AccHtmlImgAltFilename)
Link target opens new window without warning (AccHtmlLinkTargetNew)
fieldset without legend (AccHtmlFieldsetNoLegend)
Same link text goes to different pages (AccHtmlLinkTextReused)
Use h1-h6 instead of heading-like styles (AccWcag2-F2-1)
Decorative image missing null alt attribute (AccHtmlImgDecorativeAltMissing)
Spacer image has descriptive alt (AccHtmlImgDecorativeAltNonNull)
Ambiguous link text with no context (AccHtmlLinkTextAmbiguousContext)
a cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17a)
details cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17details)
embed cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17embed)
iframe cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17iframe)
label cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17label)
a cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18a)
details cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18details)
embed cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18embed)
iframe cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18iframe)
label cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18label)
button cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19button)
textarea cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19textarea)
select cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19select)
input cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19input)
button cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20button)
textarea cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20textarea)
select cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20select)
input cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20input)
video with controls must not appear as a descendant of a (W3cHtml5Assert22video)
audio with controls must not appear as a descendant of a (W3cHtml5Assert22audio)
video with controls must not appear as a descendant of button (W3cHtml5Assert23video)
audio with controls must not appear as a descendant of button (W3cHtml5Assert23audio)
Broken aria-activedescendant ID reference (W3cHtml5AriaActiveDescendant)
Invalid aria-controls value (W3cHtml5Error-RnvErAval-aria-controls)

Compatibility

input type=number has partial support (BugHtmlInputNumber)
input type=range has partial support (BugHtmlInputRange)
input[type=search] selector has partial support (BugHtmlInputSearch)
meter element has partial support (BugHtmlMeter)
progress element has partial support (BugHtmlProgress)
SVG images have partial support (BugHtmlSvg)
?import of binary element behaviors is unsupported (BugIe9BinaryBehavior)
VML is unsupported (BugIe10Vml)
input type=file has partial support (BugSafariMobileInputFile)
xml element is unsupported (BugNonStdXml)

Search

Document head errors affect indexing (SeoHtmlValidation)
JavaScript redirects may be penalized (SeoJavaScriptRedirects)
Don’t use rel=nofollow on internal links (SeoGoogleNoFollow)

Standards

bdo must have a dir attribute (W3cHtml5Assert1)
label elements may not contain multiple form controls (W3cHtml5Assert5)
for must refer to a non-hidden form control (W3cHtml5Assert6)
section must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert7section)
nav must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert7nav)
article must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert7article)
aside must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert7aside)
footer must not appear inside header element (W3cHtml5Assert8)
footer must not appear inside footer element (W3cHtml5Assert9)
footer must not appear inside address element (W3cHtml5Assert10)
h1 must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert11h1)
h2 must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert11h2)
h3 must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert11h3)
h4 must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert11h4)
h5 must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert11h5)
h6 must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert11h6)
header must not appear inside footer (W3cHtml5Assert12header)
header must not appear inside address (W3cHtml5Assert13header)
header must not appear inside header (W3cHtml5Assert14)
table must not appear inside caption (W3cHtml5Assert15)
summary is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert16)
a cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17a)
details cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17details)
embed cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17embed)
iframe cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17iframe)
label cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert17label)
a cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18a)
details cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18details)
embed cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18embed)
iframe cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18iframe)
label cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert18label)
button cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19button)
textarea cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19textarea)
select cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19select)
input cannot have clickable ancestor a (W3cHtml5Assert19input)
button cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20button)
textarea cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20textarea)
select cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20select)
input cannot have clickable ancestor button (W3cHtml5Assert20input)
button inside label with for must have an id matching for (W3cHtml5Assert21button)
textarea inside label with for must have an id matching for (W3cHtml5Assert21textarea)
select inside label with for must have an id matching for (W3cHtml5Assert21select)
input inside label with for must have an id matching for (W3cHtml5Assert21input)
video with controls must not appear as a descendant of a (W3cHtml5Assert22video)
audio with controls must not appear as a descendant of a (W3cHtml5Assert22audio)
video with controls must not appear as a descendant of button (W3cHtml5Assert23video)
audio with controls must not appear as a descendant of button (W3cHtml5Assert23audio)
menu with type=toolbar must not appear inside a (W3cHtml5Assert24)
menu with type=toolbar must not appear inside button (W3cHtml5Assert25)
img with usemap must not appear inside a (W3cHtml5Assert26)
img with usemap must not appear inside button (W3cHtml5Assert27)
object with usemap must not appear inside a (W3cHtml5Assert28)
object with usemap must not appear inside button (W3cHtml5Assert29)
area must be inside a map element (W3cHtml5Assert30)
img with ismap must be inside an a element with an href (W3cHtml5Assert31)
list attribute must refer to a datalist element (W3cHtml5Assert32)
input type=button must not have empty value attribute (W3cHtml5Assert33)
label attribute must not be empty (W3cHtml5Assert34)
default attribute can only appear on one track inside audio or video (W3cHtml5Assert35)
id on a map element must be identical to the name attribute (W3cHtml5Assert36)
Multiple selected options only allowed when select has multiple attribute (W3cHtml5Assert37)
select with required must contain an option element (W3cHtml5Assert38)
First option in a required select dropdown must have an empty value or empty text content (W3cHtml5Assert39)
language=JavaScript can only be used with type='text/javascript' (W3cHtml5Assert40)
script cannot have attribute charset unless src is specified (W3cHtml5Assert41)
script cannot have attribute defer unless src is specified (W3cHtml5Assert42)
script cannot have attribute async unless src or type=module is specified (W3cHtml5Assert43)
progress must not appear inside another progress element (W3cHtml5Assert45)
Progress value must not be greater than max (W3cHtml5Assert46)
Progress value must not be greater than 1.0 (W3cHtml5Assert47)
meter must not appear inside another meter element (W3cHtml5Assert48)
min must not be greater than value (W3cHtml5Assert49)
value must be greater than or equal to 0 if min not specified (W3cHtml5Assert50)
value must not be greater than max (W3cHtml5Assert51)
value must be less than or equal to 1 if max not specified (W3cHtml5Assert52)
min must not be greater than max (W3cHtml5Assert53)
max must be greater than or equal to 0 if min not specified (W3cHtml5Assert54)
min must be less than or equal to 1 if max not specified (W3cHtml5Assert55)
min must not be greater than low (W3cHtml5Assert56)
low must be greater than or equal to 0 if min not specified (W3cHtml5Assert57)
min must not be greater than high (W3cHtml5Assert58)
high must be greater than or equal to 0 if min not specified (W3cHtml5Assert59)
low must not be greater than high (W3cHtml5Assert60)
high must not be greater than max (W3cHtml5Assert61)
high must be less than or equal to 1 if max not specified (W3cHtml5Assert62)
low must not be greater than max (W3cHtml5Assert63)
low must be less than or equal to 1 if max not specified (W3cHtml5Assert64)
min must not be greater than optimum (W3cHtml5Assert65)
optimum must be greater than or equal to 0 if min not specified (W3cHtml5Assert66)
optimum must not be greater than max (W3cHtml5Assert67)
optimum must be less than or equal to 1 if max not specified (W3cHtml5Assert68)
acronym is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert69)
applet is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert70)
center is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert71center)
font is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert71font)
big is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert71big)
strike is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert71strike)
tt is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert71tt)
basefont is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert71basefont)
dir is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert72)
frameset is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert73frameset)
noframes is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert73noframes)
coords on a is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert74a)
shape on a is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert75a)
urn on a is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert76a)
charset on a is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert77a)
methods on a is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert78a)
target on link is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert80link)
urn on link is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert81link)
charset on link is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert82link)
methods on link is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert83link)
nohref on area is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert85area)
name on embed is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert86embed)
profile on head is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert87head)
version on html is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert88html)
name on img is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert91img)
usemap on input is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert92input)
type on the li element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert93li)
type on the ul element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert93ul)
scheme on meta is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert94meta)
meta http-equiv=content-language is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert95)
archive on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert96object)
classid on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert97object)
code on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert98object)
codebase on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert99object)
codetype on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert100object)
declare on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert101object)
standby on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert102object)
name on option is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert103option)
type on param is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert104param)
valuetype on param is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert105param)
language on script is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert106)
scope on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert107)
abbr on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert108td)
axis on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert109td)
axis on th is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert109th)
align on caption is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110caption)
align on iframe is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110iframe)
align on img is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110img)
align on input is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110input)
align on object is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110object)
align on embed is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110embed)
align on legend is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110legend)
align on table is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110table)
align on hr is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110hr)
align on div is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110div)
align on h1 is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110h1)
align on h2 is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110h2)
align on h3 is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110h3)
align on h4 is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110h4)
align on h5 is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110h5)
align on h6 is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110h6)
align on p is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110p)
align on col is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110col)
align on colgroup is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110colgroup)
align on tbody is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110tbody)
align on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110td)
align on tfoot is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110tfoot)
align on th is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110th)
align on thead is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110thead)
align on tr is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert110tr)
width on col is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111col)
width on colgroup is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111colgroup)
width on hr is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111hr)
width on pre is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111pre)
width on table is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111table)
width on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111td)
width on th is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert111th)
char on col is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112col)
char on colgroup is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112colgroup)
char on tbody is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112tbody)
char on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112td)
char on tfoot is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112tfoot)
char on th is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112th)
char on thead is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112thead)
char on tr is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert112tr)
charoff on col is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113col)
charoff on colgroup is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113colgroup)
charoff on tbody is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113tbody)
charoff on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113td)
charoff on tfoot is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113tfoot)
charoff on th is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113th)
charoff on thead is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113thead)
charoff on tr is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert113tr)
valign on col is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114col)
valign on colgroup is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114colgroup)
valign on tbody is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114tbody)
valign on td is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114td)
valign on tfoot is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114tfoot)
valign on th is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114th)
valign on thead is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114thead)
valign on tr is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert114tr)
alink on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert115body)
background on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert116body)
bgcolor on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert117body)
link on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert118body)
bottommargin on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert119body)
marginheight on the body element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert120body)
leftmargin on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert121body)
rightmargin on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert122body)
topmargin on the body element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert123body)
marginwidth on the body element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert124body)
text on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert125body)
vlink on body is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert126body)
clear on br is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert127br)
hspace on embed is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert128embed)
vspace on embed is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert129embed)
noshade on the hr element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert130hr)
size on the hr element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert131hr)
color on the hr element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert132hr)
compact on the dl element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert133dl)
compact on the menu element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert133menu)
compact on the ol element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert133ol)
compact on the ul element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert133ul)
allowtransparency on iframe is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert134iframe)
frameborder on iframe is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert135iframe)
marginheight on iframe is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert136iframe)
marginwidth on iframe is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert137iframe)
scrolling on iframe is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert138iframe)
hspace on the img element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert139img)
hspace on the object element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert139object)
vspace on the img element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert140img)
vspace on the object element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert140object)
border on the img element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert141img)
border on the object element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert141object)
bgcolor on the table element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert142table)
border on the table element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert143table)
cellpadding on the table element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert144table)
cellspacing on the table element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert145table)
frame on the table element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert146table)
rules on the table element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert147table)
bgcolor on the td element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert148td)
bgcolor on the th element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert148th)
height on the td element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert149td)
height on the th element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert149th)
nowrap on the td element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert150td)
nowrap on the th element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert150th)
bgcolor on the tr element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert151tr)
xml:lang requires lang with same value to be present (W3cHtml5Assert152)
border on img element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert176)
language on the script element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert177)
name on the a element is obsolete (W3cHtml5Assert178)
video element has more than one default track (W3cHtml5Assert179video)
audio element has more than one default track (W3cHtml5Assert179audio)
form cannot have ancestor form (W3cHtml5AssertNestedForm)
dfn cannot have ancestor dfn (W3cHtml5AssertNestedDfn)
noscript cannot have ancestor noscript (W3cHtml5AssertNestedNoscript)
label cannot have ancestor label (W3cHtml5AssertNestedLabel)
address cannot have ancestor address (W3cHtml5AssertNestedAddress)
usemap refers to non-existent map (W3cHtml5UsemapCheck)
xml:lang without matching lang (W3cHtml5XmlLangButNoLang)
datafld is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeDatafld)
dataformatas is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeDataformatas)
datasrc is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeDatasrc)
datapagesize on table is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeDatapagesize)
for attribute on script is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeScriptFor)
event attribute on script element is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeScriptEvent)
img must have an alt attribute (W3cHtml5MissingImgAlt)
Broken aria-activedescendant ID reference (W3cHtml5AriaActiveDescendant)
HTML Validation Error (W3cHtml5Error)
HTML validation warning (W3cHtml5Warning)
Invalid aria-controls value (W3cHtml5Error-RnvErAval-aria-controls)
Element caption not allowed here (W3cHtml5Error-RnvErElem-caption)
HTML 5 doctype (W3cHtmlDocTypeHtml5)

Usability

Capitalize the first letter in lists (UseGov12.9)
Ensure images do not slow downloads (UseGov14.3)