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Old Mar 16th, 2007, 18:23
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Re: Importance of Validation

I don't have time for a long reply or I'll miss my bus but ...

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Originally Posted by pa007 View Post
The critique pages of this forum are a good example, you get "that doesn't validate, sort it out" a lot more often than "where are your skip links, alt text and link titles?", which I think in many cases would be more beneficial than a perfectly valid site.
If you run you're site through the validator and you don't have an alt attribute for every one of those images you have on you're site, it will give you an error and won't validate.

Also ... "some" semantic stuff like having a <div> inside a <p> will give you errors ... deprecated elements and attributes too ...

I totally get your point tho

Although .... accessibility, IMO, is a different thing altogether. and I do believe there is a "validator" that can check your site for accessibility.

The HTML validator just makes sure you HTML is properly written.