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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Google search guidelines
- MSN search guidelines
- Yahoo search guidelines
- SEO best practice guidelines
- Check for your keywords in titles, headings and highlighted text
- Validate HTML and XHTML
- Validate CSS
- Usability.gov guidelines
- W3C usability guidelines
- Hard to read pages (Flesch Reading Ease Score)