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Web standards checklist

Date: 13 August 2004

Author: Russ Weakley

Web standards more than just table-free sites

The term web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is table-free

sites, for others it is using valid code. However, web standards are much broader than that. A sitebuilt to web standards should adhere to standards(HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, DOM,

MathML, SVG etc) and pursue best practices(valid code, accessible code, semantically correct

code, user-friendly URLs etc).

In other words, a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible,

usable and search engine friendly.

About the checklist

This is not an uber-checklist. There are probably many items that could be added. More importantly,

it should not be seen as a l ist of items that mustbe addressed on every site that you develop. It is

simply a guide that can be used:

to show the breadth of web standards

as a handy tool for developers during the production phase of websites
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as an aid for developers who are interested in moving towards web standards

The checklist

1. Quality of code

1. Does the site use a correct Doctype?

2. Does the site use a Character set?3. Does the site use Valid (X)HTML?

4. Does the site use Valid CSS?

5. Does the site use any CSS hacks?

6. Does the site use unnecessary classes or ids?

7. Is the code well structured?

8. Does the site have any broken links?

9. How does the site perform in terms of speed/page size?

10. Does the site have JavaScript errors?

2. Degree of separation between content and presentation

1. Does the site use CSS for all presentation aspects (fonts, colour, padding, borders etc)?

2. Are all decorative images in the CSS, or do they appear in the (X)HTML?

3. Accessibi lity for users

1. Are alt attributes used for all descriptive images?

2. Does the site use relative units rather than absolute units for text size?

3. Do any aspects of the layout break if font size is increased?

4. Does the site use visible skip menus?

5. Does the site use accessible forms?6. Does the site use accessible tables?

7. Is there sufficient colour brightness/contrasts?

8. Is colour alone used for critical information?

9. Is there delayed responsiveness for dropdown menus (for users with reduced motor

skills)?

10. Are all links descriptive (for blind users)?
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4. Accessibi lity for devices

1. Does the site work acceptably across modern and older browsers?

2. Is the content accessible wi th CSS switched off or not supported?

3. Is the content accessible wi th images switched off or not supported?

4. Does the site work in text browsers such as Lynx?

5. Does the site work well when printed?

6. Does the site work well in Hand Held devices?7. Does the site include detailed metadata?

8. Does the site work well in a range of browser window sizes?

5. Basic Usability

1. Is there a clear visual hierarchy?

2. Are heading levels easy to distinguish?

3. Is the sites navigation easy to understand?

4. Is the sites navigation consistent?

5. Does the site use consistent and appropriate language?

6. Does the site have a sitemap page and contact page? Are they easy to find?

7. For large sites, is there a search tool?

8. Is there a link to the home page on every page in the site?

9. Are links underlined?

10. Are visited links clearly defined?

6. Site management

1. Does the site have a meaningful and helpful 404 error page that works from any depth

in the site?

2. Does the site use friendly URLs?3. Do your URLs work without www?

4. Does the site have a favicon?

1. Quality of code

1.1 Does the site use a correct Doctype?
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A doctype (short for document type declaration) informs the validator which version of

(X)HTML youre using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. Doctypes are a

key component of compliant web pages: your markup and CSS wont validate without them.

Fix your site with the right doctype

More:

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/about-boxmodel.htm

http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch.html

1.2 Does the site use a Character set?

If a user agent (eg. a browser) is unable to detect the character encoding used in a Web

document, the user may be presented with unreadable text. This information is particularly

important for those maintaining and extending a multilingual site, but declaring the character

encoding of the document is important for anyone producing XHTML/HTML or CSS.

Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS

More:

Character encodings

1.3 Does the site use Valid (X)HTML?
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Valid code will render faster than code with errors. Valid code will render better than invalid

code. Browsers are becoming more standards compliant, and it is becoming increasingly

necessary to write valid and standards compliant HTML

What is valid code

More:

W3C Markup Validation Service

1.4 Does the site use Valid CSS?

You need to make sure that there arent any errors in either your HTML or your CSS, since

mistakes in either place can result in botched document appearance.

Help! My CSS Isnt Working!

More:

W3C CSS Validation Service

1.5 Does the site use any CSS hacks?

Basically, hacks come down to personal choice, the amount of knowledge you have of

workarounds, the specific design you are trying to achieve.

Standard Hacks?
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More:

CSS Hacks

To hack or not to hack

CSS filters

1.6 Does the site use unnecessary classes or ids?

Ive noticed that developers learning new skills often end up with good CSS but poor

XHTML. Specifically, the HTML code tends to be full of unnecessary divs and ids. This

results in fairly meaningless HTML and bloated style sheets.

Markup tactics

1.7 Is the code well structured?

Semantically correct markup uses html elements for their given purpose. Well structured

HTML has semantic meaning for a wide range of user agents (browsers without style sheets,

text browsers, PDAs, search engines etc.)

Semantically correct markup

More:

Semantic data extractor

1.8 Does the site have any broken links?
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Broken links can frustrate users and potentially drive customers away. Broken links can also keep

search engines from properly indexing your site.

More:

W3C Link checker

1.9 How does the site perform in terms of speed/page size?

Dont make me wait Thats the message users give us in survey after survey. Even

broadband users can suffer the slow-loading blues.

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization

1.10 Does the site have JavaScript errors?

Internet Explore for Windows allows you to turn on a debugger that will pop up a new window and

let you know there are javascript errors on your site. This is available under Internet Options on the

Advanced tab. Uncheck Disable script debugging.

2. Degree of separation between content and presentation

2.1 Does the site use CSS for all presentation aspects (fonts, colour, padding, borders etc)?

Use style sheets to control layout and presentation

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 checkpoint 3.3
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2.2 Are all decorative images in the CSS, or do they appear in the (X)HTML?

The aim for web developers is to remove all presentation from the html code, leaving it clean

and semantically correct.

3. Accessibility for users

3.1 Are alt attributes used for all descriptive images?

Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checkpoint 1.1

3.2 Does the site use relative units rather than absolute units for text size?

Use relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet

property values


More:


How to size text using ems
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3.3 Do any aspects of the layout break if font size is increased?

Try this simple test. Look at your website in a browser that supports easy incrementation of font

size. Now increase your browsers font size. And again. And again Look at your site. Does the

page layout still hold together? It is dangerous for developers to assume that everyone browses

using default font sizes.

3.4 Does the site use visible skip menus?

A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links.

Section 508

Group related links, identify the group (for user agents), and, until user agents do so, provide

a way to bypass the group


blind visitors are not the only ones inconvenienced by too many links in a navigation area.

Recall that a mobility-impaired person with poor adaptive technology might be stuck tabbingthrough that morass.

Keep them visible!

3.5 Does the site use accessible forms?
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Forms arent the easiest of things to use for people with disabilities. Navigating around a

page with written content is one thing, hopping between form fields and inputting information

is another

Accessible forms

More:

Accessible html/xhtml forms

Accessible form builder

3.6 Does the site use accessible tables?

For data tables, identify row and column headers For data tables that have two or more

logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header

cells.

Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines checkpoint 5.1

More:

How to create accessible tables

Accessible table builder

Creating accessible tables

3.7 Is there sufficient colour brightness/contrasts?
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Ensure that foreground and background colour combinations provide sufficient contrast

when viewed by someone having colour deficits

Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines checkpoint 2.2

More:

Colour Contrast Analyser

3.8 Is colour alone used for critical information?

Ensure that all information conveyed with colour is also available without colour, for example

from context or markup

Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines checkpoint 2.1

There are basically three types of colour deficiency; Deuteranope (a form of red/green colour

deficit), Protanope (another form of red/green colour deficit) and Tritanope (a blue/yellow deficit-

very rare).

More:

Colourblind Webpage filterVischeck

3.9 Is there delayed responsiveness for dropdown menus?

Users with reduced motor skills may find dropdown menus hard to use if responsiveness is set too

fast.
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3.10 Are all links descriptive?

Link text should be meaningful enough to make sense when read out of context either on

its own or as part of a sequence of links. Link text should also be terse.


4. Accessibility for devices

4.1 Does the site work acceptably across modern and older browsers?

Before starting to build a CSS-based layout, you should decide which browsers to support

and to what level you intend to support them.

Colored boxes one method of building full CSS layouts

4.2 Is the content accessible with CSS switched off or not supported?

Some people may visit your site with either a browser that does not support CSS or a browser with

CSS switched off. In content is structured well, this will not be an issue.

4.3 Is the content accessible with images switched off or not supported?

Some people browse websites with images switched off especially people on very slow

connections. Content should still be accessible for these people.
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4.4 Does the site work in text browsers such as Lynx?

This is like a combination of images and CSS switched off. A text-based browser will rely on well

structured content to provide meaning.

More:

Lynx Viewer

4.5 Does the site work well when printed?

You can take any (X)HTML document and simply style it for print, without having to touch the

markup.

Going to print

More:

Web Design References Print

4.6 Does the site work well in Hand Held devices?

This is a hard one to deal with until hand held devices consistently support their correct media type.

However, some layouts work better in current hand-held devices. The importance of supporting

hand held devices will depend on target audiences.

4.7 Does the site include detailed metadata?
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Metadata is machine understandable information for the web

W3C Metadata and Resource Description

Metadata is structured information that is created speci fically to describe another resource. In other

words, metadata is data about data.

4.8 Does the site work well in a range of browser window sizes?

It is a common assumption amongst developers that average screen sizes are increasing. Some

developers assume that the average screen size is now 1024px wide. But what about users with

smaller screens and users with hand held devices? Are they part of your target audience and are

they being disadvantaged?

5. Basic Usability

5.1 Is there a clear visual hierarchy?

Organise and prioritise the contents of a page by using size, prominence and content

relationships

Create a Clear Visual Hierarchy

5.2 Are heading levels easy to distinguish?

Use header elements to convey document structure and use them according to specification
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5.3 Is the sites navigation easy to understand?

Your navigation system should give your visitor a clue as to what page of the site they arecurrently on and where they can go next.

Design Tutorial Navigation

5.4 Is the sites navigation consistent?

If each page on your site has a consistent style of presentation, visitors will find it easier tonavigate between pages and find information

Juicy studios Navigation

5.5 Does the site use consistent and appropriate language?

The use of clear and simple language promotes effective communication. Trying to come

across as articulate can be as difficult to read as poorly written grammar, especially if the

language used isnt the visitors primary language.

Clear language
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5.6 Does the site have a sitemap page and contact page? Are they easy to find?

Most site maps fail to convey multiple levels of the sites information architecture. In usability

tests, users often overlook si te maps or cant find them. Complexity is also a problem: a map

should be a map, not a navigational challenge of its own.

Site Map Usability

5.7 For large sites, is there a search tool?

While search tools are not needed on smaller sites, and some people will not ever use them, site-

specific search tools allow users a choice of navigation options.

5.8 Is there a link to the home page on every page in the site?

Some users like to go back to a sites home page after navigating to content within a site. The home

page becomes a base camp for these users, allowing them to regroup before exploring new

content.

5.9 Are links underlined?

To maximise the perceived affordance of clickability, colour and underline the link text.

Users shouldnt have to guess or scrub the page to find out where they can click.

Guidelines for Visualizing Links
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One of the worst elements of the web from a user interface standpoint is the URL. However,

if theyre short, logical, and self-correcting, URLs can be acceptably usable

How to make URLs user-friendly

More:

Creating Search Engine Friendly URLs

How to make URLs user-friendly

6.3 Does the sites URL work without www?

While this is not critical, and in some cases is not even possible, it is always good to give peoplethe choice of both options. If a user types your domain name without the www and gets no site, this

could disadvantage both the user and you.

6.4 Does the site have a favicon?

A Favicon is a multi-resolution image included on nearly all professionally developed sites.

The Favicon allows the webmaster to further promote their site, and to create a more

customized appearance within a visitors browser

Favicon.com

Favicons are definitely not critical. However, if they are not present, they can cause 404 errors in

your logs (site statistics). Browsers like IE wil l request them from the server when a site is
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bookmarked. If a favicon isnt available, a 404 error may be generated. Therefore, having a favicon

could cut down on favicon specific 404 errors. The same is true of a robots.txt file.

More about this list

This checklist was first outlined in a rough form on the Web Standards Mail list in May 2004. It was

presented to the Sydney Web Standards Group on 5 August 2004. It is also available as a

downloadable pdf checklist for developers.

The presentation is also available in:

Bulgarian, thanks to Boby Dimitrov

Chinese, thanks to Jjgod Jiang

Spanish, thanks to Osvaldo Rainero

Italian, thanks to Franco Carcillo

Italian, thanks to Livio MondiniFrench, thanks to Christophe Ducamp

German, thanks to Mario Mueller

Polish, thanks to Krzysztof Szafranek

French (Quebec), thanks to Chantal Ide

Portuguese, thanks to Mauricio Samy Silva

Czech, thanks to Vit Dlouhy

Russian, thanks to Alex Kachanov

Finnish, thanks to Kalamuki

Serbian, thanks to Goran Mitic

Hungarian, thanks to Krisztian Klisics

Dutch, thanks to Ramon Eijkemans

Romanian, thanks to Adrian Sandu

Russian, thanks to Nickolas Loiko

Swedish, thanks to Lillan Backa
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Norwegian, thanks to Bjorn Enki

Belorussian, thanks to P.C.

Persian, thanks to Behzad Alibeigi

Thanks as always to Rose Cox for proof reading and Lea de Groot for her developer checklist

suggestions.

Comments so far

Spencer Drager

February 16, 2010 at 3:28 pm

Excellent checklist. The only thing I could think was missing was anything about

FEEDBACK. Ideally, you want some sort of feedback (:hover effects) for most links and

menus, especially ones which are not explicitly obvious in nature. While not technically a

web standard, this is highly encouraged for ease of usability.

Russ

February 16, 2010 at 9:44 pm

@spencer: good points!

rafat

March 9, 2010 at 6:48 pm

really useful tips! good work
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bart

March 18, 2010 at 3:06 am

really wide and useful tips. but what about design? are there any rules about colors or

position and shape of menu etc?!

Russ

March 18, 2010 at 5:06 am

@bart: That would be a good list, but an entirely different topic a web design checklist. It

sounds like it would need to cover design and usability issues. That is not something I would

be keep to write as it would be very hard to define and document.

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Im an extremist regarding web standards, although Im just an amateur in the f2e world (7

months old ^^), may I add some accessibility requirement from your list.

1. Image description although not mandatory in every images, you should at least put

desc into your logo, in case the use wants to know what the logo is all about, it is the

opposite of alt, which is the short version.

2. d-link because desc is not majorly supported by browsers (even the major browsers),this will serve as the alternative to link to your desc file.

3. skip-link You should give users (especially for blind users using assistive technology

e.g. screen reader) to be able to skip navigation links. Skip links help the user to jump

immediately to content, rather than letting them wait to read out all the l inks of the page

before even reaching the content.

4. default value for input elements/tags This is useful for forms and even search features of

your web site. This allows the user to know what should be typed in the field.

Keep up the good work,

Kind regards,

Jelome ^^,

Russ

August 9, 2010 at 12:40 pm

Hi Emmanuel-Jelome

Good to hear from you. Thank you for the comments.

Re points 1 and 2:

http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-3682


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I presume you are talking about the longdesc attribute?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#adef-longdesc-IMG

[img longdesc="URL" alt="ALT text" /]

We have found that although longdesc is great, it has two issues:

1. people stopped using them some time ago so it has died out as a practice

2. in all of our testing, blind users did not use these they are bombarded by too much infoanyway, and generally a good alt attribute was more than enough.

Re point 3:

There is info on skip links above.

Re point 4:

I am not a fan of adding values into input elements as a general. I think it is much more

important to include a good label , with a for attribute that describes the input element.

Labels are vital for blind users, and useful for everyone.

One key issue with adding a value into an input field is that it should be cleared before

users start typing otherwise it can cause all sorts of usability issues agin, this affects

sighted and blind users.

Our details

Phone:

612 9410 2521

Mobile:

0403 433 980

Address:

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