The Web and Open Data Validator 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. Web site checking includes
Open data checking includes
- Add checks for WCAG plain text techniques and failures for plain text web pages and portions of
HTML web pages using the "pre" tag - WCAG_2.0-T1, WCAG_2.0-T2, WCAG_2.0-T3
- Checks for whitespace formatted tables and graphic character formatted tables in plain text web
pages and portions of HTML web pages using the "pre" tag - WCAG_2.0-F34
- Ignore SSL certificate errors in web feed validator - XML_VALIDATION - Fix bug in handling ordered list items found in unordered lists in multi-line text cells in
CSV files - OD_data
- Check for space separated or graphics character formatted tables and plain text lists and headings
in multi-line text fields in JSON files - OD_data
- Report plain text accessibility errors in accessibility tab rather than the open data tab.
- Ignore a single leading whitespace character in list items - OD_DATA
- Check roman numeral ordered lists in plain text content
- Set default limit of errors reported per URL to 1000 to avoid memory consumption problems.Version 6.14.0 contains the following updates and additions
- Add checks for WCAG plain text techniques and failures for plain text web pages and portions of
HTML web pages using the "pre" tag - WCAG_2.0-T1, WCAG_2.0-T2, WCAG_2.0-T3
- Checks for whitespace formatted tables and graphic character formatted tables in plain text web
pages and portions of HTML web pages using the "pre" tag - WCAG_2.0-F34
- Add checks for WCAG plain text techniques and failures for plain
text web pages and portions of HTML web pages using the
"pre" tag - WCAG_2.0-T1, WCAG_2.0-T2, WCAG_2.0-T3
- Correct function name in Deque Axe install script
- Ignore SSL certificate errors in web feed validator - XML_VALIDATION - Fix bug in handling ordered list items found in unordered lists in multi-line text cells in
CSV files - OD_data
- Check for space separated or graphics character formatted tables and plain text lists and headings
in multi-line text fields in JSON files - OD_data
- Report plain text accessibility errors in accessibility tab rather than the open data tab.
- Ignore a single leading whitespace character in list items - OD_DATA
- Check roman numeral ordered lists in plain text content
- Ignore case when checking for scientific notation in CSV cells
- Set default limit of errors reported per URL to 1000 to avoid memory consumption problems.The tool installer, WPSS_Tool.exe, does NOT include the required Perl or Python installers.
Perl and Python must be installed on the workstation prior to installing the WPSS_Tool.
Supported versions of Perl include
Does NOT work with Strawberry Perl versions earlier than 5.26 and does not work with ActiveState Perl's community release.
Supported versions of Python include
Required version of Java
The WPSS_Tool has been tested on the following platforms
The WPSS Tool installer is available as a release in this repository
The Chrome headless user agent and supporting files can be installed using the install_puppeteer.pl script in the WPSS_Tool folder.
If headless Chrome is not available, the WPSS_Tool will fall back to using PhantomJS and a message will be written to the stdout.txt file.
The Pa11y accessibility test tool (https://pa11y.org/) is an optional tool that may be used to run tests against web pages. The tool can be installed using the install_pa11y.pl script in the WPSS_Tool folder.
The Deque AXE accessibility tool (https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-cli) is an optional tool that may be used to run tests against web pages. The tool can be installed using the install_deque_axe.pl script in the WPSS_Tool folder.
The tool distribution, WPSS_Tool_Linux.zip, does NOT include the required Perl or Python installers.
Perl and Python must be installed on the prior to installing the WPSS_Tool.
Supported versions of Perl include
Supported versions of Python include
Required version of Java
The WPSS_Tool has been tested on the following platforms
The Linux version has not been tested with headless chrome, pa11y or Deque AXE.
The WPSS Tool installer is available as a release in this repository
Installation steps
The WPSS_Tool and open_data_tool can be built from the repository as follows
cd wet-boew-wpss-master/Buildperl build_release.pl
perl build_release.pl Linuxcd ../distribution