Basic desktop tool
The Total Validator Tool is a convenient desktop version of the online Total Validator service. Like the online version it can perform four types of validation:
- True HTML validation against the W3C Markup Specifications or ISO/IEC definition using the published DTDs and standards: (2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, 5, ISO/IEC, XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5, XHTML Basic 1.0, 1.1, XHTML+RDFa, XHTML-Print)
- Accessibility validation against the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines (1.0 and 2.0) and US Section 508 Standard
- A spell checker that checks the content of your pages against American, British, French, Italian, German or Spanish dictionaries
- A broken links validator that checks for broken hypertext links
Other advantages of the desktop tool are as follows:
- Validate local pages, intranets, or other hidden pages
- Fast response and local results
- May be launched from the Firefox extension for one click validation
- Select which browser identification to use when checking websites
Downloading the Basic tool v6.2.1
The Basic tool runs on Windows from 2000 upwards, and OS X 10.4 and above, and most versions of Linux. Your system must be also capable of running Java 1.5 or higher.
Details of recent changes. Please read the license before downloading.
Download for Windows [MD5 Checksum]
Download for OS X [MD5 Checksum]
Download for Linux [MD5 Checksum]
When upgrading simply install the latest release over the your existing installation. There is no need to uninstall your current version first. All of your settings and results should be preserved.
Java for Windows
On Windows if you don't have the right version of Java installed your browser will be directed to the official site to download the latest version. Alternatively download the java add-on below. This will provide a local version of Java used just by the tool:
Download Java 1.6 for Windows (22MB) [MD5 Checksum]
Installing/Uninstalling
Windows: Just double-click the downloaded file to install. See the ReadMe.txt file for uninstalling.
OS X: Open the .dmg file and see the ReadMe.txt file for instructions on installing/uninstalling.
Linux: Uncompress the downloaded file using: 'tar xvfz totalvalidatorbasic.tar.gz' then read the instructions in the ReadMe.txt file for installing/uninstalling.
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