Web Accessibility Toolbar EN 1.1
The recent flurry of activity (additons to the toolbar) has been due to the preparation of a document called The Web Accessibility Toolbar and WCAG 1.0 which is now finished and published.
This document indicates which toolbar function (if any) is helpful in assessing conformance to the WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints.
Each time i looked a particular checkpoint I thought"it would be good if the toolbar could help check for that"
and proceeded to try to cobble together some code to do it, or scrounge around for some code to modify or best of all hassle Sofia or JUn to do some development.
The newest function is:
Structure > JavaScript / New Window Links
It Displays an icon next to links that contain JavaScript in the href attribute. The links are also given a dashed border and background colour.
it Displays an icon next to links that contain an onclick event handler and common words used in new window scripts in the href and/or the onclick attribute. The links are also given a dashed border and background colour.
It Displays an icon next to links that have their target attribute specified (_self & _top are excluded) . The links are also given a background colour.
Aknowledgement to Autark who created the script this is based on.
Thanks to Sofia Jun and Andrew Arch for their help and hard work..... - posted by steve faulkner @ 9:24 pm, 1 more function plus new additional documentation: permanent link 0 comments
The last of the major functions added..... until the new version comes out!
'Doc Info > Identify Multimedia Files'Displays (in a new window) the code of any object/embed elements found. it also lists links to Multimedia files (Examples: mp3, mov, swf, ram etc) found on the current page. Developed by Sofia Celic
'Doc Info > Identify Scripts & Applets'Displays (in a new window) any applets found and the associated code. It also lists embedded and external scripts found and in most cases allows the viewing and downloading of external scripts linked from current page.Developed by Sofia Celic with aknowledgement to Lioren.
Also started adding better error handling on some functions. - posted by steve faulkner @ 9:35 pm, 2 more functions added: permanent link 0 comments
- 'Structure > Show tab order' - numbers (in tab order) and puts a background colour & border around all active elements on the page. If the element has a tabindex attribute this is indicated. Note: applets/multimedia/ image maps/iframes are treated as one increment in the tab order.
- 'Doc Info > Show DOCTYPE' - simple function that shows an alert box indicating the DOCTYPE (if present)
- 'Doc Info > Show Lang attributes' - Displays on the current page any lang attributes found along with their associated elements. With acknowledgement to: Bartimeus Accessibility Foundation
Also two functions have been modified, one has been removed.
- The 'CSS > CSS on/off' & the 'CSS > Inline styles off' functions have now become one: 'CSS > Disable CSS'. this function now disables external style sheets and removes inline syles as well.
- the 'CSS> test styles function' has been updated to include a dropdown list of style rules found in style sheets associated with the page, which can be inserted into the edit area. the styel changes can also be cleared using the 'clear' button. The functions interface has also been prettied up a tad.
