Automatic Temporal Evaluation of the Accessibility of the World Wide Web and Its Standards Conformance

Abstract

Whereas the appliance of the document object model yields extensible markup language documents with complete well-formedness, it does have the potential of outputting invalid code. We present current techniques for measuring the accessibility and standards conformance of Web sites. The techniques are then applied to perform a temporal analysis of a dynamically driven test case, which is in contrast to the hitherto tendency emphasising the Web standards conformance of static pages. We introduce an easy to use, cross-browser approach to validate the source code in the interim period between loading and unloading of a single Web page and show that it handles the test case in the correct manner.