Validation

After finishing your evaluation and adding the accessibility and evaluation metadata, it is time to verify that the evaluation is complete.

To validate your evaluation, locate the Validation button at the top right of the SMART interface. The button looks like a check mark.

If validation is successful, you will receive a prompt that no issue were found. In this case, you can move to the next step — generating outputs.

If missing or invalid information is found, an error panel will open at the bottom of the application. This panel lists the validation warnings and errors that were discovered, with the severity of each message indicated in square brackets at the start.

Figure 2 — Error messages are prefaced by the text "[ERROR]".

Note: While warnings may be ignored if they are determined not to apply, errors should always be corrected before publishing a report or using the metadata the tool generates in an EPUB.

To go to the location of an warning or error, click on its message. Errors and warnings are also distinguished visually in each tab by red and yellow backgrounds, respectively. The aria-invalid attribute is also used to convey this information to assistive technologies.

To close the message panel, click the X button in the right-hand corner of the message panel.

Close button — Figure 3 — The close button is the gray X inside a grey circle.

To re-open the message panel, press ctrl+m or re-run the metadata or report generation operation you were trying to perform.

You can run validation at any time to check the status of your evaluation. Evaluations are also automatically validated whenever you generate a report or metadata.