Question

I have cross domain iframe which is missing some of the accessibility attributes. Now issue is since I do not have access to that cross domain iframe and how it was created. Is there a way I can say in my HTML document to let validation tools (eg Worldspace FireEyes) know to ignore that iframe for any accessibility issues – so that my page doesn’t get flagged with errors due to that other content?

I am trying to find any tag which will complete ignore content inside it so that web accessibility validator software will ignore it completely.

Answer 1

Have a look at “Partial page analysis with scope definitions” (YouTube video). Inside that video the presenter defines a specific section of the site as a “scope”. He then is able to

1. let Worldspace FireEyes only analyze that defined scopae
2. analyze the whole document except for the defined scopes (he mentions it when selecting the scope)

The second option sounds like it could help you.

If you instead try to mark up your site so that external users of Worldspace FireEyes get a “green bar”, I don’t think that this is possible. You present that content to your users on your website, so it gets analyzed by default.

Are you trying to get a “green bar” to present to a client? Describe the iframe constraints to them.

Are there too many issues found in the iframe so you can’t work with the validation result efficiently? Use scopes.