SortSite 4.0 Changes

A list of changed accessibility, compatibility and search engine rules in SortSite 4.0.

Changed rules

Errors

• Required text not found (ErrRequired)
• Page is blank (ErrEmptyPage)
• Page has spelling errors (ErrSpellingError)

Accessibility

• Applet with no fallback content (AccHtmlAppletNoFallback)
• PDF graphic has no accessible name (AccPdfImgAltMissing)
• Headings should not contain headings (AccHtmlNestedHeading)
• Language change without lang attribute (AccPhraseLangMissing)
• Missing page language (AccPageLangMissing)
• 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)
• Document title missing (AccPageNoTitle)
• Document title is blank (AccPageBlankTitle)
• Document title is placeholder (AccDocTitlePlaceholder)
• PDF not tagged (AccWcag2-1.3.1-1)
• PDF security blocks accessibility (AccPdfDocSecurity)

Compatibility

• Mixed content warning (BugIeMixedContent)
• -moz-opacity: property is unsupported (BugMozillaCssOpacity)

Search

• Text in graphics cannot be indexed (SeoGraphicOnlyPage)

Standards

• a name attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprAnchorName)
• applet name attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprAppletName)
• img name attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprImgName)
• applet element is deprecated (W3cDeprApplet)
• basefont element is deprecated (W3cDeprBasefont)
• center element is deprecated (W3cDeprCenter)
• dir element is deprecated (W3cDeprDir)
• font element is deprecated (W3cDeprFont)
• isindex element is deprecated (W3cDeprIsindex)
• s element is deprecated (W3cDeprS)
• strike element is deprecated (W3cDeprStrike)
• iframe align attribute (W3cDeprIFrameAlign)
• img align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprImgAlign)
• input align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprInputAlign)
• object align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprObjectAlign)
• legend align attribute is deprecated (W3cLegendAlign)
• table align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprTableAlign)
• hr align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprHrAlign)
• div align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprDivAlign)
• h1 align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprH1Align)
• h2 align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprH2Align)
• h3 align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprH3Align)
• h4 align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprH4Align)
• h5 align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprH5Align)
• h6 align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprH6Align)
• p align attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprPAlign)
• body alink attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprBodyAlink)
• body background attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprBodyBackground)
• img border attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprImgBorder)
• object border attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprObjectBorder)
• br clear attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprBrClear)
• compact attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprCompact)
• td height attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprTdHeight)
• th height attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprThHeight)
• img hspace attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprImgHspace)
• object hspace attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprObjectHspace)
• script language attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprScriptLanguage)
• body link attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprBodyLink)
• hr noshade attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprHrNoshade)
• td nowrap attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprTdNowrap)
• th nowrap attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprThNowrap)
• hr size attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprHrSize)
• body text attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprBodyText)
• li type attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprLiType)
• ul type attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprUlType)
• html version attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprHtmlVersion)
• body vlink attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprBodyVlink)
• img vspace attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprImgVspace)
• object vspace attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprObjectVSpace)
• td width attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprTdWidth)
• th width attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprThWidth)
• pre width attribute is deprecated (W3cDeprPreWidth)
• listing element is obsolete (W3cDeprListing)
• plaintext element is obsolete (W3cDeprPlaintext)
• xmp element is obsolete (W3cDeprXml)
• HTML document contains XML declaration (W3cHtml4DocHasXmlPi)
• Unknown entity name (W3cHtmlValEntity)
• HTML validation error (W3cHtmlError)
• CSS validation error (W3cCssError)

Usability

• Use bold text sparingly (UseGov11.5)
• Use italic text sparingly (UseGov11.10)
• Partition long data items (UseGov13.12)
• Use simple background images (UseGov14.1)
• Provide a search option (UseGov17.4)