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SortSite - List of Tests and Checkpoints

Accessibility

• WCAG 1.0 Priority A (17 guidelines covered by 31 checkpoints)
• WCAG 1.0 Priority AA (23 guidelines covered by 32 checkpoints)
• WCAG 1.0 Priority AAA (10 guidelines covered by 11 checkpoints)

Compatibility

• META Content-Type charset doesn't match the charset actually used
• PNG images with alpha-channel transparency don't display in IE6
• PNG images with certain file sizes don't display in IE
• Large GIF images don't display in IE
• Non-standard image formats such as .bmp
• Standard HTML 4 tags not implemented in some browsers
• Standard HTML 4 tags implemented incorrectly in some browsers
• Flash based interactivity/navigation requiring extra clicks in IE
• Pages that trigger quirks mode
• Netscape specific JavaScript and HTML (document.layers, document.ids, etc )
• Microsoft specific JavaScript and HTML (document.all, etc )
• Attempts to modify XHTML pages via document.write and innerHTML

Compliance (Pro edition only)

• Missing copyright statement
• Missing privacy statement
• Setting cookies with no privacy statement (violates EU regulations - maximum fine 10,000 euros)
• Using tracking images with no privacy statement (violates EU regulations - maximum fine 10,000 euros)
• Flags pages collecting e-mail addresses (needs to comply with US Can-Spam act and EU regulations)
• Flags pages collecting personal details (needs to comply with EU Data Protection regulations)

Errors

• Broken links
• Missing anchors
• Unexpected HTTP error codes
• Script errors
• Pages with large ASP.NET viewstate
• Invalid SSL certificates
• Missing DNS entries
• Malformed URLs
• Badly configured RSS feeds
• Placeholder text such as "Lorem Ipsum" and "TODO"
• Domains close to expiring
• Badly configured 404 handlers

Search (Pro edition only)

• Google search guidelines
• MSN search guidelines
• Yahoo search guidelines
• SEO best practice guidelines
• Check for your keywords in titles, headings and highlighted text

Standards

• Validate HTML and XHTML
• Validate CSS

Usability (Pro edition only)

• Usability.gov guidelines
• W3C usability guidelines
• Hard to read pages (Flesch Reading Ease Score)

File Formats Checked HTML, XHTML, CSS, SMIL, SVG, MathML, Adobe PDF, Flash SWF, GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Microsoft Office

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