Use favelets to check validation and accessibility of your web pages.
Added on Wednesday 24 Sep 2003
This weeks accessible web design tip is to take advantage of the many free favelets available to check validation and accessibility of your web pages.
Favelets provide you with a way to run short scripts embedded within bookmarked URLs; the script will act upon the page you currently have in your browser. Scripts are are invoked by choosing the bookmark from you bookmark or favourites menu. This is a powerful feature that you can put to good use when creating and validating your web pages.
You can use favelets for many things including:
- Checking the accessibility of pages.
- Validating HTML and CSS.
- Resetting browser screen size (i.e. for checking how a page will look on a screen with a different resolution).
- Displaying images on a page with their alt attributes.
- Viewing meta data for a page.
And much much more.
Ian Lloyd has a good explanation of how to use favelets on his Accessibility-checking favelets page at
His tutorial is aimed at Windows users, but if you are a Mac user, or using another platform, I am confident you will be able to work out how to use them from his explanation.
Links
More useful favelets related to accessibility and validation can be found at:
http://validator.w3.org/favelets.html
A search on Google for favelets will also lead you to a huge number of useful favelets.