Student projects/Automatic accessibility checking

This project was an original GSoC 2008 project, but it was cancelled because the student failed to deliver sufficient code.

This page is a specification under construction! If you have any comments or suggestions, please share them with us.

This tool is used to make validating Moodle pages on the fly. It is a one click system on the client that takes the html source of the current page and submits it to W3C for validation. It then returns the errors and warnings in a simple GUI for easy reading and fixing.

Index

Issues

JavaScript Version

Multi-browser support
Handling html source code in a JavaScript variable. (addslashes would be something to look into for JavaScript)

PHP Version

Ajax calls conflict when given the correct state. Reproduce - unknown

Tasks

ToDo

Make an experimental option in Moodle Admin to activate/deactivate
Ability to include on every page

Done

Research
- What is the maximum length of a POST with multipart/form-data? 8M post data, and 2M upload data.
Core Development
- UML
  - UML version 1
- PoC
  - PoC in Javascript of how to use a concrete SOAP library
  - Javascript Skeleton Version 1 (directly to the recycle bin)
  - PoC in Javascript on how to take the whole source code of the current HTML.
  - PoC in PHP of W3C SOAP API Version 2: uploaded_file method. The document to validate, POSTed as multipart/form-data.
    - Fix browser capability for the PoC in Javascript (Get complete source) Tested in IE 7, Firefox 2, Firefox 3 on a Windows XP Pro, still looking for a user with Mac osX.
  - PoC in JAvascript on how to take the whole source code of the current HTML from an external javascript file.
  - PoC in PHP of W3C SOAP API Version 1: URI method
GUI
- Draw version 1
- GUI version 2

Documentation