On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Martin Chapman wrote:
Just a quick question regarding the Bobby accessibility site. I am currently working on a site to convert to standards/validation specs. However, 99% of the site is user/password protected. I get round W3C validating the protected pages with Firefox's Web Developer extension (Validate Local HTML option). However, how can I do the same with the Bobby site?
I noticed they have a CD for purchase, would this allow me to do such a thing?
Depending on how many different pages/templates you need to validate with Bobby, this may prove to be enough:
1. login, and visit one of the pages 2. View > Source on that page 3. Select All, Copy, and Paste into a new file 4. Save the file as plain HTML 5. Upload this file to a public web space somewhere 6. test accessibility with Bobby on that URL
Alternatively, copy/mirror the site to another server/directory, remove the password restrictions, and validate that way.
Alternatively, *temporarily* change the way the site responds to logins, so that you're using GET vars instead of POST, then supply bobby with a URL that includes a temporary user:pass combo, so that you can check the validity that way.
Really though, just pay attention to the way Bobby reacts to other pages on the site, and make sure those problems are fixed on the protected pages as well. Same goes for WAG -- you can always manually check the pages for validity. After a while, building accessible pages becomes an automatic part of what you do.
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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