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Version 3.02
Mar 30 2009
SortSite - List of Tests and Checkpoints
Tests carried out by SortSite include:
Accessibility
- Section 508 (15 guidelines covered by 34 checkpoints)
- 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)
- WCAG 2.0 (106 checkpoints covering A, AA and AAA guidelines)
- Accessibility - more information
Browser Compatibility
- META Content-Type charset doesn't match the charset actually used
- PNG and GIF images that don't display correctly 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
- Browser Compatibility - more information
Legal 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)
- Compliance - more information
Broken Links and 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
- Errors - more information
Search Optimization (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
- Search - more information
Web Standards
- Validate HTML and XHTML
- Validate CSS
- Web Standards - more information
User Experience (Pro edition only)
- Usability.gov guidelines
- W3C usability guidelines
- Hard to read pages (Flesch Reading Ease Score)
- Usability - more information
File formats checked: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SMIL, SVG, MathML, Adobe PDF, Flash SWF, GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Microsoft Office