Comments on: A present from Cynthia

By: Joan Rawson

Joan Rawson — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:06:52 +0000

Thanks for posting this, it’s the first I’ve heard of it and the site is failing on exactly what you said. Is it going to be a problem if I leave it?

By: ConnieB

ConnieB — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:08:28 +0000

Well this is good. More work.

By: Leonid

Leonid — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:12:11 +0000

What is this mean for site? Will not be right in browser? What need to do?

By: Jaybee

Jaybee — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:34:01 +0000

The error is at Priority 2. It’s entirely up to you what you want to do about it. If you want Cynthia to report a clean page then you’ll need to make sure you add the missing lines in the head of each of your pages. It won’t affect Browser layout as they’re Meta Tags and not involved in the display.

As I understand it, the DDA and the EU regs require business sites to comply with all Priority 1 checks and most of Priority 2 so you won’t be in any trouble if you don’t do it.

I’d be interested to know why these have been added to the checks. The Metas are used to declare the natural language of the document and are most useful for non-English or multi-language sites which is why, I thought, they were optional.