XHTML Accessabilities Validator

XACT only supports html, not XHTML

[JAB Creations]

The XACT accessabilities validator does not properly support XHTML (requests for example adjective attributes height and width which should be used only in CSS).
I can't seem to find any XHTML accessabilities validator anywhere, anyone know or one or at least a party talking about or considering creating one?

[choster]

This isn't an XML Programming question. But I will point out that the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD [w3.org] requires the attributes src and alt, and permits longdesc, height, width, usemap, and ismap, and according to W3Schools at least, height and width on images are not deprecated in 1.0 Strict (only ismap).

They may be deprecated in XHTML 1.1. But XHTML 1.1 is almost always used incorrectly, and there is very little reason to use it on most websites.

What are the other kinds of accessibility errors you get?

[encyclo]

Accessibility validators are inexact at best - they do a technical inspection of the document but cannot make any more than an approximate judgement of a page's accessibility. The warnings are guidelines, but if you know that you have covered the points listed then you're fine.

For the height and width attributes, they are valid XHTML on images even in version 1.1.

[JAB Creations]

XHTML is a subset of XML and thus it was proper for this to be listed in the XML forum.

I know width and height are (for who knows what reason) still acceptable attributes in 1.1 as my site has been 1.1 for about half a year now.

I suppose we'll just have to wait and wait. In an industry that is supposed to move fast there sure is a lot of waiting.