Geisha (Full) 1.0

Total Validator Tool for OSX 5.4.0 offers you a tool which performs four important validations on your web pages: True (X)HTML validation against published DTDs; accessibility validation against the W3C and US Section 508 guidelines; spell checking against one of five languages; and checking for broken links.

This is a convenient desktop version of the online Total Validator service. Like the online version it can perform five types of validation:

• True HTML validation against the W3C Markup Specifications or ISO/IEC definition using the published DTDs (2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, ISO/IEC, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1)
• Accessibility validation against the W3C WAI Accessibility Guidelines and US Section 508 Standard
• A spell checker that checks the content of your pages against American, British, French, Italian, German or Spanish dictionaries
• A broken links validator that checks for broken hypertext links
• Screenshots in 32 different browsers on Windows, Linux and OS/X (Pro tool only)

Why these 4 validations ...

Search engine robots/spiders are very fussy and will not search or index some or all of a site if they come across invalid HTML. So if you want to be properly listed you need to be sure your HTML is valid.

Just because you can use your website doesnt mean that someone with a disability can. You should ensure your sites conform to the W3C WAI Accessibility Guidelines, (and that also means strictly W3C validated HTML), or US Section 508 standard, if you want your site to be accessible to all.

Spelling is often left unchecked and will make your site look and feel unprofessional and even unusable.

Broken links are the bane of every webmaster, you may get your internal links correct, but external sites tend to change all the time, and theres nothing that makes your site look worse than a link to nowhere. So you need to regularly check your site for broken links.

If you need more than the this tool provides then keep a look out for the full version that allows you to test more than a page at a time, has more options for each validation and can be optionally run from the command line.

Installing and uninstalling:  Open the .dmg file and see the ReadMe.txt file for instructions on installing/uninstalling.

Major Advantages:

1. Validate local pages, intranets, or other hidden pages
2. Fast response and local results
3. May be launched from the Firefox extension for one click validation
4. Select which browser identification to use when checking websites

Requirements:

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