The NGfL technical checklist

Here are the specific technical checks a website goes through in order to gain a NGfL badge.

NGfL technical checkpoints (links to help tutorials)	Yes	No	N/A	Unchecked
Images have meaningful text equivalents.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Colour alone is not used to convey information.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Clearly identify changes in the natural language of a document's text (Spanish, French, etc).	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Ensure that text equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Site is navigable and content available by keyboard alone.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
No screen flickering or blinking.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site's content.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Client-side image-maps used (not server-side image-maps).	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Identify row and column headers along with their scope on data tables.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Name and title each frame in a frameset.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Each frame references a valid HTML page.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Each referenced frame has a meaningful page title.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Provide accessible equivalents to multimedia presentations.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
If you cannot create an accessible page, provide a link to an alternative page that is accessible, with equivalent information, and is updated as often as the original page.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked

NGfL technical checkpoint warnings (links to help tutorials)	Yes	No	N/A	Unchecked
Ensure that foreground and background colour combinations provide sufficient contrast.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Create documents that validate to published formal grammars.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Use style sheets to control layout and presentation.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Font-sizing is scalable.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear without informing the user.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Ensure that home page is less than 80Kb in size.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Each page has a meaningful page title distinguishing it from similar pages.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Use header elements to convey document structure.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Mark up lists and list items properly.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Mark up quotations. Do not use quotation markup for formatting effects such as indentation.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Ensure that dynamic content is accessible or provide an alternative presentation or page.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Do not create periodically auto-refreshing pages.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Do not use markup to redirect pages automatically.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Clearly identify the target of each link.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Use navigation mechanisms in a consistent manner.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Form inputs are adequately labelled and positioned.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked
Avoid movement in pages.	Yes	No	Not applicable	Unchecked

Browser checks: Content available and site navigable		Yes	No	Unchecked
PC Windows	Internet Explorer.	Yes	No	Unchecked
	Firefox.	Yes	No	Unchecked
	Netscape.	Yes	No	Unchecked
	Opera.	Yes	No	Unchecked
	Lynx (text-only).	Yes	No	Unchecked
Macintosh OSX	Internet Explorer.	Yes	No	Unchecked
Macintosh OSX	Safari.	Yes	No	Unchecked