SortSite 5.3 Changes

A list of changed accessibility, compatibility and search engine rules in SortSite 5.3.

Changed rules

Errors

• Link returns 403 HTTP status code (ErrHttpForbidden)
• Page is blank (ErrEmptyPage)

Accessibility

• Applet with no fallback content (AccHtmlAppletNoFallback)
• Image map has no accessible name (AccHtmlAreaNoAlt)
• alt is image file name (AccHtmlImgAltFilename)
• Graphic button has no accessible name (AccHtmlInputImageNoAlt)
• Object with no fallback content (AccHtmlObjectNoFallback)
• PDF graphic has no accessible name (AccPdfImgAltMissing)
• button image must have alt (AccButtonImgNoAccName)
• CSS absolute units and zoom disabled (AccHtmlNoTextResize)
• Mark up lists and list items properly (AccHtmlBulletListMarkup)
• Data table without th headers (AccHtmlTableNoHeaders)
• CSS position: causes meaningless sequence (AccCssMeaninglessSequence)
• Scrolling marquee element (AccHtmlMarquee)
• Flashing blink element (AccHtmlBlink)
• 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 title is frame file name (AccHtmlFrameTitleFilename)
• Page with no headings (AccPageNoHeadings)
• fieldset without legend (AccHtmlFieldsetNoLegend)
• label is blank (AccHtmlLabelBlank)
• HTML link has no accessible name (AccHtmlLinkTextBlank)
• Same link text goes to different pages (AccHtmlLinkTextReused)
• Document title is blank (AccPageBlankTitle)
• Provide multiple ways to reach page (AccPageMultipleWays)
• Placeholder for timed media (AccHtmlTimedMediaPlaceholder)
• Spacer image has descriptive alt (AccHtmlImgDecorativeAltNonNull)
• HTML form control has no accessible name (AccHtmlControlLabelMissing)
• Unicode lookalike characters used (AccWcag2-F71-1)
• role=row must be owned by role=grid or rowgroup or treegrid or table (W3cHtml5AriaRequiredParentRoles-row)
• role=rowgroup must be owned by role=grid or treegrid or table (W3cHtml5AriaRequiredParentRoles-rowgroup)

Compatibility

• data element has partial support (BugHtmlData)
• input type=color has partial support (BugHtmlInputColor)
• input type=date has partial support (BugHtmlInputDate)
• input type=time has partial support (BugHtmlInputTime)
• track element has partial support (BugHtmlTrack)
• Java applets are unsupported (BugSafariMobileJava)
• blink element is unsupported (BugNonStdBlink)

Search

• Pages must not have a blank title (SeoBlankTitle)
• Provide an HTML site map (SeoSiteMap)
• Meta description same as the page title (SeoBingMetaDescriptionIsTitle)
• Page has multiple title elements (SeoMultipleTitleTags)
• Page has multiple meta description tags (SeoMultipleDescriptionTags)
• Hidden single pixel links may be penalized (SeoSpamSinglePixelLink)

Standards

• role=row must be owned by role=grid or rowgroup or treegrid or table (W3cHtml5AriaRequiredParentRoles-row)
• role=rowgroup must be owned by role=grid or treegrid or table (W3cHtml5AriaRequiredParentRoles-rowgroup)
• title must not be empty (W3cHtml5TextContentTitle)
• option element must not be empty (W3cHtml5TextContentOption)
• longdesc on img is obsolete (W3cHtml5ObsoleteAttributeLongdesc)

Usability

• Use site maps (UseGov7.10)