Accumulus Validator Setup
Every page in this course should include Accumulus, software designed to provide you feedback on your website within your browser. Accumulus is easy to add to your website, to do so, please follow the following video tutorials. Accumulus greatly assists in the ability for the TAs of this course to grade you. It also helps you to write better web code! A former student and current software developer created this to evaluate a number of components of webpages, including structure, accessibility compliance, and standardization. Every page you submit should pass all tests - which will run when you load the page on a public server. In addition you must manually test the WCAG standards by clicking the Accumulus cloud and choosing WCAG.
Note: This is an active project, as such there may be bugs! Please feel free to contact the developer Seth Vance at svance3@uncc.edu, or via the discord server, username @voison. Feel free to contact me (Seth Vance) any time you have questions, believe that you have discovered a bug, or, even if you are just struggling with the technical aspect of any assignment in the class! I love web technology, and want to help you succeed!
Required Accumulus Script
<script src="https://lint.page/kit/4d0fe3.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>Place this script element at the bottom of the <head></head> element on every page.
Assignment:
- Follow the instructions in the first video to include Accumulus on all pages in your /itis3135 folder.
- Review your webpage(s). If Accumulus was added correctly, a small cloud of some color will be in the bottom left corner.
- Upload your website to your github.io AND your webpages.charlotte.edu web hosting platforms.
- Review errors or warnings, if any, returned to you by Accumulus. Watch the second YouTube video for information on how to interact with Accumulus and find these warnings and errors.
- Re-upload your web pages with corrections if needed.
- Use Accumulus to check for WCAG errors.
- Submit the URL to your webpages.charlotte.edu website here for this assignment.