Museo&Web
Planning Kit for a Quality Site for Small and Medium Sized Museums
Validation of the code
Every time that a new page is created, it must be checked to see:
- If the code was written correctly
- If the code corresponds to the accessibility rules
- How the code is read by the various more or less recent browsers
To see is the code was written correctly use:
- W3C
HTML Validation service
Validator of the HTML language according to the W3C Recommendations
http://validator.w3.org/
To check the Style sheet:
- W3C CSS Validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/README.html
To check accessibility and compatibility with the browsers use:
- LYNX Viewer
Textual Browser that shows text only of the HTML pages
http://lynx.browser.org/ - JAWS For Windows from Freedom Scientific
Screen reader
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp - Cynthia Says
Identifies errors regarding the standards of the 508 Section and of the W3C guidelines
http://www.cynthiasays.com/ - Torquemada
Italian language tool for checking accessibility
http://www.webxtutti.it/testa.htm - WebXACT
Free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues
http://webxact.watchfire.com/
For checking the page with other browsers:
- Microsoft Internet explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx - Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/ - Netscape
Navigator
http://home.netscape.com/ - Opera
http://www.operasoftware.com/index.html