SortSite 5.27 Changes

A list of changed accessibility, compatibility and search engine rules in SortSite 5.27.

Changed rules

Errors

• Page has placeholder text (ErrPlaceholderText)

Accessibility

• Link with no href or event handler (AccCompat-a-no-handler-no-href)
• alt is image file name (AccHtmlImgAltFilename)
• ASCII art used for text alternative (AccHtmlImgAltAsciiArt)
• Image accessible name uses placeholder (AccHtmlImgAltPlaceholder)
• CSS depends on default colors (AccHtmlUnsetTextOrBackgroundColor)
• Missing page language (AccPageLangMissing)
• label is blank (AccHtmlLabelBlank)
• HTML link has no accessible name (AccHtmlLinkTextBlank)
• Ambiguous link text (AccHtmlLinkTextAmbiguous)
• Document title is placeholder (AccDocTitlePlaceholder)
• Placeholder for timed media (AccHtmlTimedMediaPlaceholder)
• Decorative image missing null alt attribute (AccHtmlImgDecorativeAltMissing)
• Spacer image has descriptive alt (AccHtmlImgDecorativeAltNonNull)
• Ambiguous link text with no context (AccHtmlLinkTextAmbiguousContext)
• HTML form control has no accessible name (AccHtmlControlLabelMissing)
• ARIA label references empty element (AccAriaLabelledByBlank)
• input button without value or label (AccHtmlInputButtonValueMissing)
• HTML button has no accessible name (AccHtmlButtonBlank)

Compatibility

• HTML imports are no longer supported (BugHtmlLinkImport)
• meter element has partial support (BugHtmlMeter)
• Script modules have partial support (BugHtmlScriptModule)
• Scoped stylesheets unsupported (BugHtmlStyleScoped)
• xml:base is unsupported (BugHtmlStyleXmlBase)
• isindex element is unsupported (BugHtmlIsindex)
• SVG fragments have partial support (BugImageSvgFragment)
• Flash no longer supported (BugAdobeFlash)
• Java applets are unsupported (BugSafariMobileJava)
• ondblclick event not supported on mobile (BugSafariMobileMouseEvents)
• oncontextmenu event not supported on mobile (BugSafariMobileOnContextMenu)
• text-decoration-style: property has partial support (BugCssTextDecorationStyle)
• bgsound element is unsupported (BugNonStdBgsound)

Search

• Page has no h1 element (SeoNoH1Tag)

Standards

• script with nomodule must not have type=module (W3cHtml5ScriptNomoduleTypeModule)
• link scope can only be used with rel=serviceworker (W3cHtml5LinkScopeServiceWorker)
• link updateviacache can only be used with rel=serviceworker (W3cHtml5LinkUpdateViaCacheServiceWorker)
• link workertype can only be used with rel=serviceworker (W3cHtml5LinkWorkerTypeServiceWorker)

Usability

• Provide descriptive page titles (UseGov9.2.3)
• Use meaningful link labels (UseGov10.1)
• Use at least a 12-point font (UseGov11.8)