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Validating Your Site!

Check your code!!

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Why validate?!

•  Browsers are the helicopter parents of

programming!
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•  As your pages become more complex
“hidden” areas can be devastating!
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Three approaches!

•  Validate by URI!
•  Validate by Filename!
•  Validate by Direct Input!
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Don’t freak out!!

•  Errors propagate, so always start at the

top!
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•  Search for solutions online and in forums!
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Accessibility Validation!

•  You can use wave.webaim.org to validate

accessibility!
•  Only works on hosted pages!
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Review!

•  Validated sites are more robust and more

accessible!
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Acknowledgements/Contributions!
These slides are Copyright 2015- Colleen van Lent as part of http://
www.intro-webdesign.com/ and made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 License. Please maintain
this last slide in all copies of the document to comply with the
attribution requirements of the license. If you make a change, feel free
to add your name and organization to the list of contributors on this
page as you republish the materials.!
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Initial Development: Colleen van Lent , University of Michigan School of
Information!
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