I want to add Thank you Jacki for pointing out that I might have an error or two on my
pages with the
links not being quite exactly what the W3C standards suggest they be,, though they do
still work.. I will correct those links tomorrow (it's 2:00 a.m. here) as I am always
trying to make
sure my pages are accessible to EVERYONE, regardless of disability or age of computer
system etc.
This is exactly why I spent so much time getting that
bobby.org link on my pages which by
the
way shows as a link error because it redirects to the index.htm page instead of the
default page,, oh dear.
This is not about having a broken link,, I dare to say that all of us may have at least
one or two
of those on our pages though the validator will show many more as invalid which are not.
My point is that my pages should have been inspected for meeting GAGenWeb guidelines and
not for
meeting W3C guidelines.
I want to know when the GaGenweb started requiring that our pages meet the W3C standards?
Having broken links is not in the guidelines that I can find,, if it is,, please tell me
where it is located?
I have 3 counties and I got virtually the same "copied" response to each county
though one county did
have a valid dead link, Shouldn't the RC's be verifying if my pages meet GAGenWeb
guidelines
and NOT the W3C standards?
When, where, who decided that the W3C standards will now be in place for GAGenWeb county
pages?
Debra Crosby
----- Original Message -----
From: Debra Crosby
To: GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:06 AM
Subject: [GAGEN] Fw: Compliance Checks -- Dougherty County
Ok,,
Now I do understand why Bettie was upset.
I did run my pages through this validator and came up with quite a few
redirects for
bobby.org which is the disability validator address indeed and still
viable but redirects to new pages and several errors on not having the / at the end of
the directory ie: gadoughe instead of gadoughe/
My question now is the same as Bettie's,, where in the guidelines does it say that
our
pages need to meet the w3c validator for us to be in compliance with the GAGENweb??
I have asked this of my RC who sent me the notice on my page.. Now I am asking of the
SC,, why do our pages have to meet the W3C validator and where in the guidelines
does it state this??
Debra Crosby
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacki Jonas
To: poohbos(a)poohbos.com
Cc: GAGENWEB-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:02 AM
Subject: Compliance Checks -- Dougherty County
Hello Debra,
I have started visiting the counties in the SW region to check for
compliance to the Guidelines, which are located
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/guidelines.htm#16.
I visited Dougherty County today and only found the following.
Misc:
1) There are broken links. The quickest way to find these is to use the
linkchecker at
http://validator.w3.org/checklink. If you check the box to
check recursively, it will check the whole site. IIRC, most of them were
typos using capital GAgenweb instead of gagenweb.
Thanks, and have a great day!
Jacki
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/
Southwest Regional Coordinator
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