Validate Access Keys Criterion

Pages must validate to the standards of your declared doctype.

• Every page on a site must have a doctype declaration indicating the language and version used.
• When checked via the W3C validator the code on the site must comply with standards for the version/language used.
• Writing standards-compliant code improves the likelihood that your site will be accessible to all assistive technologies because it means they will know exactly how to interpret your site.
• Use of standards-compliant code also means your site will be both backwards compatible and forwards compatible and will require fewer fixes in the long term.
• The score comes from the percentage of compliance across a site and the severity of any incorrectly used tags.
• The spider in phase one will check to see if the code complies with HTML 4.0. Phase two will incorporate XHTML.
• Points - Based on percentage of compliance (t=3p).
• Criterion weighting of two.