Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 1.8 - RSS

The document is validated each time it is updated

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

WCAG Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.

Validation of web pages is a process of checking your documents against a formal RSS or ATOM standard. It is similar to spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax, but is dealing with precise programming languages.

Validating to a published formal RSS or ATOM grammar ensures that Feed Reader software are able to consume your feed and present it to subscribers.

Requirement

Validate the RSS feed each time the content is modified.

Recommendation

Test the page by subscribing to the feed and viewing the newly created RSS feed

Checking Tool

The RSS feed can be validated using the online RSS and ATOM Feed Validator  (validator.w3.org/feed/) provided by W3C.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-identify-grammar)

 

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