Release Version 6.1.0 · wet-boew/wet-boew-wpss

WPSS Validation Tool version 6.1.0

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.

Major Changes

This version of the tool makes use of a JavaScript aware headless user agent to retrieve HTML web documents. The user agent executes JavaScript when the page loads and provides generated HTML mark-up to be used by the WPSS_Tool.

Version 6.1.0 contains the following updates and additions

WPSS_Tool

- Don't check alt text for images inside of anchor tags as the same image
  may be used with different alt text for different purposes (e.g. a
  calendar image to open a widget in a form) - WCAG_2.0-G197
- Check for inputs of type email in login forms.
- Allow for extra links in skip links section.  Generated markup
  includes 1 extra link - SWU_TEMPLATE
- Report duplicate label id failures as WCAG 2.0 F77 (F17 has been
  removed from WCAG).
- Add configuration items to set the size of the URL list and direct HTML input buffer sizes.
- Check for PWGSC web analytics code (i.e. piwik) on pages - TP_PW_ANALYTICS
- Check <meta name="viewport" for possible text resize restrictions - WCAG_2.0-SC1.4.4
- Generate a summary results CSV file similar to the summary at the bottom of the text 
   results.
- Treat tables with role="presentation" as layout tables. Check for summary, caption or 
   headers in layout tables.
- Report the use of white space to control formatting only once for a given 
   string - WCAG_2.0-F32
- Use the definition term <dt> as possible introduction text for a list - WCAG_2.0-G115
- Report a runtime error if any external tool fails to run.
- Skip checking of id attribute values for <script> tags.

Open Data Tool

- Check for duplicate column headers in CSV files - TP_PW_OD_CSV_1
- Check for duplicate data dictionary definitions - OD_TXT_1
- If an XML file contains a schema specification using the xsi:schemaLocation 
   attribute, validate the XML against the schema.
- Perform XML schema validation using the xsd-validator tool.
- Parse and extract data dictionary details (headings, definitions, etc.) from 
   PWGSC formatted XML data dictionaries.
- Perform CSV data validation using the csv-validator tool.

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