Is the css Zen Garden AAA-compliant?
Quick summary: probably not. The “aaa” link on the main Zen Garden page used to point to an automated test which checked the Zen Garden’s markup for AAA compliance. Since the original checker is no longer available, a new and more comprehensive one has been found, but this comes with a caveat: the markup now fails the test in one area, where a series of links is separated by character entities. Had these links been contained within a
- , it’s likely the markup would still pass the test. But even if the markup passes, AAA compliance is not necessarily achieved. The WCAG 1.0 guidelines contain multiple checkpoints which can not be tested automatically; they require a judgment call made by a human, not software. Many designs use techniques (FIR, fonts sized with the px unit) which are now deemed inaccessible, so the CSS of any particular design is as relevant as the markup when it comes to accessibility. In some cases and with certain designs, the Zen Garden may come close to ach
