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wet-boew / wet-boew-wpss

The Web and Open Data Validator (formerly the WPSS Validation Tool) provides web developers and quality assurance testers the ability to perform a number of web site, web page validation and Open data validation tasks at one time.
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Advantages of a DOM crawler, rather than code crawler #75

Closed DavidMacDonald closed 8 years ago

DavidMacDonald commented 8 years ago

Might be worth exploring. I understand that a headless browser would be needed for this... this is what is done by the crawler used by the university of Illinois. http://fae20.cita.illinois.edu/ Also I've provided a review of their tests for WCAG fidelity here http://davidmacd.com/WCAG/review-of-ruleset-OAA.html it legislates from the bench quite a bit...

irwink commented 8 years ago

A headless user agent (browser) is being integrated into the next tool release. This provides the WPSS_Tool access to the generated HTML markup, the markup after the initial JavaScript is loaded and run,

irwink commented 8 years ago

Version 6.0.0 uses a JavaScript aware headless user agent to get HTML web pages and execute JavaScript when loading. The generated mark-up is used by the WPSS_Tool when performing checks.