Hello,
I'm working as a developper for a software company that build some
products using Wicket 1.4 (1.4.17 for the moment being).
I'm trying to improve accessibility in our online survey product. The
first thing I did was to check our pages with the W3C validator
(http://validator.w3.org), as it's the first step to go on.
The web pages are sent with an html strict doctype with url : indeed we
have no interest in using XHTML as those pages will be sent over the web
so to any king of user agents, and don't want to deal with all the
things you have to care about when sending XHTML in text/html to older
browser (like the recommandation C appendix).
I noticed some problems that are caused by Wicket, mainly because it
works in the xml way. As I can't see any mean to override those
behaviors I'm asking here for any idea :) I looked at the 1.4.19 sources
but can't see improvements on these subjects.
Here are the different problems I saw :
- When using ResourceReference the link tags are closed in the xhtml way
: <link ... />. Should be <link ...> in HTML.
It seems to be hard coded in HeaderResponse#renderCSSReference()
- In Form components Wicket adds hidden inputs. They are also closed in
the xhtml way. Seems to be hard coded in Form#onComponentTagBody() and
Form#appendDefaultButtonField().
- DataTable : a SPAN is always added in the TD and TH. For lots of
reasons we need to insert DIV (block level) elements in the cells of a
custom DataTable based component, and so the html hierarchy looks like :
TH > SPAN > DIV > ...
TD > SPAN > DIV > ...
It's not valid to have a block level element inside an inline one.
I can't see how to change those span to div (DataTable.html and
HeadersToolbar.html).If it's not possible to get rid of that extra html
container in that wicket component, would it be at least ok to change it
to a div element ?
- DataTable : the TFOOT node is always sent to the client, even if it's
empty. In that last case, the html code is invalid in html.
Thanks for your answers !
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