Site Validation and Compliancy with W3C - Evaluating a web Site
Intro to this session
validator.w3.org html4.1, xhtml, xml, css
Bobby? Now called watchfire This was the American DDA equivalent. As of February 1, 2008 the Watchfire WebXact and Bobby Online products is no longer be publicly available.
DDA? To what sites does the Disability Discrimination Act apply? All When must all sites comply with it? From 1st October 1999
Can you validate all your web pages? If no Fix them if necessary.
Which criteria are you going to validate against and why?
What is meant by critically evaluate?
How is an evaluation ( what you think of something) different from a critical evaluation?
How would you evaluate a web site? What criteria can you come up with to compare the site? Some evaluation questions Web Usability Jakob Neilsen
What about different browsers? Can you list some of them. How are they different? What differences might you expect. If a questions asks evaluate using different browsers - how many should you use? and more importantly which ones?
Homework [D1 D3] Critically evaluate one of the 5 websites listed in Ideas section 1 of the new school of organ studies page using different browsers. You might find session 2 useful. Front Sheet