[Htcheck-announce] ht://Check 1.2.3 released

[Gabriele B. <g.b...@co...>]

Dear ht://Check users,

   I proudly announce the release of ht://Check 1.2.3, which introduces
important new features regarding Web accessibility.

   ht://Check is probably the first tool on the Web which makes possible
to perform site-wide accessibility checks, in accordance with the
principles of the University of Toronto's Open Accessibility Checks
(OAC) project (http://oac.atrc.utoronto.ca/).

   Of course, ht://Check can't be as accurate as page specific automatic
tools like Bobby and Torquemada; these are still essentials for
evaluating the degree of accessibility of a page. However ht://Check
gives web designers and maintainers another way to repair accessibility
barriers on a website.

   At the moment, ht://Check accurately discovers the following
barriers:

- missing ALT (OAC #1)
- ALT is the same as the file name (OAC #2)
- ALT text is not shorter than 150 characters (OAC #3)
- ALT text can't be empty if image is used as an anchor (OAC #7)
- wrong Hx nesting (e.g.: h2 without h1 -OAC #37-41)
- document language must be identified (OAC #48)
- missing TITLE (OAC #50)
- empty TITLE (OAC #51)
- TITLE is not shorter than 150 characters (OAC #52)
- images used in INPUT controls must have ALT text (OAC #58)
- images used in INPUT controls must have valid ALT text (OAC #59)
- images used in INPUT controls should have short ALT text (OAC #60)
- images used in INPUT control - ALT text should not be the same as the
file name (OAC #61)
- deprecated use of the B element (OAC #116)
- deprecated use of the I element (OAC #117).

   The PHP interface has been modified in order to search the database
for accessibility repair purposes.

  In order to download the sources, please visit the Web site
http://htcheck.sourceforge.net . Thank you.