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Common Look and Feel Self-Assessment Guide

The new CLF 2.0 standards are available on the CLF 2.0 Web site.

Table of Contents

About the Guide
Audience
CLF requirements
How this guide is organized
Guide formats
Contact Information

Accessibility

Standard 1.1 - W3C Checkpoints

W3C 1.1 - Text Equivalents
W3C 1.2 - Server-Side Image Maps
W3C 1.3 - Auditory Descriptions
W3C 1.4 - Synchronize Equivalents
W3C 2.1 - Colour
W3C 2.2 - Colour Contrast
W3C 3.1 - Bitmap Images
W3C 3.2 - Valid Documents
W3C 3.3 - Style Sheets
W3C 3.4 - Units
W3C 3.5 - Headings
W3C 3.6 - Lists
W3C 3.7 - Quotations
W3C 4.1 - Natural Languages
W3C 5.1 - Table Headers
W3C 5.2 - Table Structure
W3C 5.3 - Avoid Tables For Layout
W3C 5.4 - Avoid Tables For Format
W3C 6.1 - Order Style Sheets
W3C 6.2 - Update Dynamic Content
W3C 6.3 - Programmatic Objects
W3C 6.4 - Event Handlers
W3C 6.5 - Accessible Dynamic Content
W3C 7.1 - Flickering
W3C 7.2 - Blinking
W3C 7.3 - Moving Content
W3C 7.4 - Auto-Refreshing Pages
W3C 7.5 - Redirected Pages
W3C 8.1 - Embedded Objects
W3C 9.1 - Client-Side Image Maps
W3C 9.2 - Element Interfaces
W3C 9.3 - Logical Event Handlers
W3C 10.1 - Pop-Up And New Windows
W3C 10.2 - Form Controls
W3C 11.1 - W3C Technologies
W3C 11.2 - Deprecated Elements
W3C 11.4 - Accessible Equivalents
W3C 12.1 - Frame Titles
W3C 12.2 - Frame Relationships
W3C 12.3 - Information Blocks
W3C 12.4 - Control Labels
W3C 13.1 - Link Targets
W3C 13.2 - Metadata
W3C 13.3 - Site Maps
W3C 13.4 - Navigation
W3C 14.1 - Writing Styles

Standard 1.2 - Document Technologies
Standard 1.3 - Alternate Formats
Standard 1.4 - Text Equivalents

Collaborative Arrangements

Standard 2.1 - Federal Identity Program Identifiers
Standard 2.2 - Symbols

Cybersquatting

Standard 3.1 - Domain Names

E-mail

Standard 4.1 - Institutional Addresses
Standard 4.2 - Signature Blocks
Standard 4.3 - "Canada" Wordmark And FIP Signatures For E-mail
Standard 4.4 - Acknowledgements

Important Notices

Standard 5.1 - Important Notices Link
Standard 5.2 - Copyright Notice
Standard 5.3 - Privacy Notice
Standard 5.4 - Personal Information

Navigation and Format

Standard 6.1 - Common Menu Bar
Standard 6.2 - Institutional Menu Bar
Standard 6.3 - Metatags
Standard 6.4 - Date Indicator
Standard 6.5 - Colours
Standard 6.6 - Frames
Standard 6.7 - Web Analyzer Tools
Standard 6.8 - Validators

Official Languages

Standard 7.1 - Domain Names
Standard 7.2 - Welcome Pages
Standard 7.3 - "Canada" Wordmark And Signatures
Standard 7.4 - Unilingual Welcome Page Message
Standard 7.5 - Language Choice
Standard 7.6 - Server Messages Languages
Standard 7.7 - Text Equivalent Languages
Standard 7.8 - Metatag Languages
Standards 7.9 - Collaborate Arrangements Languages
Standard 7.10 - E-mail Addresses