Technical Requirements and Recommendations

This document lists the technical requirements that projects funded by CCO must meet. Additionally, it includes a series of recommended practices that developers are urged to follow.

Projects will be evaluated against these requirements. Fund recipients will be asked, should the situation warrant it, to revise their websites in order to comply with the requirements.

This guide has been created for those who may wish to have explanations for each of the technical requirements, as well as the rationale behind them.

This checklist has been organised in a way that reproduces the order and numbering of the Technical Requirements document.

It can guide development from the start of a project, and can be used as a verification tool before a website is launched.

Fund recipients will be requested to complete and send in this checklist to CCO before they launch their website. Note that every technical requirement must be met.

Best Practice Guides

Digitization projects and the preservation of digital content
[HTML format | PDF format, 222 KB]

Alternative text for images
[HTML format | PDF format, 777 KB]

Search Engine Optimization
[HTML format | PDF format, 194 KB]

Metadata
[HTML format | PDF format, 242 KB]

Tip Sheets

Text-based content in PDF format
[HTML format | PDF format, 216 KB]

Animation and Flash
[HTML format | PDF format, 709 KB]

Note:

To access the Portable Document Format (PDF) version you must have a PDF reader installed. If you do not already have such a reader, there are numerous PDF readers available for free download or for purchase on the Internet:

• Adobe Reader
• Foxit Reader
• Xpdf
• eXPert PDF Reader

Please note that all saveable and fillable PDF forms require Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8.1 or higher.