MADISON, WI [ LINK : WI State Journal ] The story trumpeting the 30th anniversary of the Disability Rights Wisconsin lobbying group includes a link to their website. Sure it’s ugly, but that’s often a casualty of strict ADA / WCAG (Americans with Disabilities Act slash Web Content Accessibility Guide) adherence guidelines, established to help ensure that the disabled can easily navigate our World Wide Wasteland.
Whoops. Turns out, DRW is not WCAG level 2 or 3 compliant at all. Running the online “Cynthia” test against the site reveals violations of:
- Rule: 11.2.1 – Identify the use of one or more deprecated elements or attributes within the document.
- Rule: 13.1.2 – All Anchor elements are required not to use the same link text to refer to different resources.
- Rule: 13.2.2 – Documents are required to use META elements, that are defined as required, in Head section.
- Rule: 4.3.1 – Documents are required to use the META element with the ‘name’ attribute value ‘language’ in the Head section.
- Failure – Document does not use the META element with the ‘name’ attribute value ‘language’.
- Rule: 4.3.2 – The HTML (Root) element must use the ‘lang’ attribute.
- Failure – The HTML (Root) element does not use the ‘lang’ attribute.
…and the report (which you can run yourself from any number of online test sites, including http://www.contentquality.com/) goes on and on like that.
So why am I busting their chops? Two reasons.
One, my understanding is that the handicapped/handi-capable/[insert current politically correct moniker here] want to be treated like everybody else, and I bust everybody else’s chops too. Consider me to be an EEOC-compliant a-hole, if you’d like; and
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