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WPSS Validation Tool version 5.2.0

The WPSS Validation Tool provides web developers and quality assurance testers the ability to perform a number of web site and web page validation tasks at one time. The tool crawls a site to find all of the documents then analyses each document with a number of validation tools.

Version 5.2.0 contains the following updates and additions

WPSS_Tool

- If a link has a non JavaScript onclick attribute, use that as the href value.
- Reset heading levels inside section tags - TP_PW_H.
- Update HTML5 validator to version 15.6.29.
- Check if the captions file mime type matches the data type attribute of the track tag - 
  WCAG_2.0-F8
- Mobile optimization: Check for no content in supporting files - NUM_HTTP
- Mobile optimization: Check for no styles in CSS stylesheet file - NUM_HTTP
- When checking dc.subject values, allow values with either windows right single 
  quote or regular single quote - Metadata Content
- Don't report baseline technologies error if frames are used in HTML 5 - TP_PW_TECH
- Add testcase group profile for Canada.ca sites using the PWGSC developed WET 4.0 
  template package.
- Check for and remove any BOM from TTML files before validation.

Open Data Tool

- Decode data dictionary files if they are UTF-8 encoded to fix bug with CSV headers 
  that have accented characters - OD_CSV_1
- Do case sensitive checks for dictionary terms and CSV headers - OD_CSV_1

WPSS_Tool Installer

The tool installer, WPSS_Tool.exe, does NOT include the required Perl or Python installers (as was the case for previous releases). Perl and Python must be installed on the workstation prior to installing the WPSS_Tool.

Supported versions of Perl include

Supported versions of Python include

The WPSS_Tool has been tested on the following platforms

  • Windows 7 (32 bit), Strawberry Perl 5.18 (32 bit), Python 2.7.6

The WPSS Tool installer is available as a release in this repository

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