Common Look and Feel Self-Assessment Guide

About the Guide

The CLF Self-Assessment Guide has been developed by the Treasury Board Secretariat for departments and agencies to determine the compliance level of their Internet Web sites with the Common Look and Feel Standards. The Guide is available in HTML, PDF and an editable version for consultation and documentation.

Audience

Treasury Board Secretariat has produced the Guide for anyone needing to assess federal Internet Web sites' compliance with Common Look and Feel Standards. This includes Web masters, auditors, Web designers and developers.

CLF requirements

Government of Canada policy requires all institutions represented in Schedule 1, 1.1 and 2 of the Financial Administration Act to comply with Common Look and Feel Standards by December 31, 2002. See: CLF Background.

How this guide is organized

This Guide presents each Standard as a question and provides a brief explanation of the Standard. Standard 1.1 on Web site accessibility includes all Priority 1 and Priority 2 accessibility checkpoints developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The normative reference for the checkpoints and for their interpretations is the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The explanations provided in this Guide for each W3C checkpoint are derived from W3C documents but they have not been approved by the W3C.

Guide formats

The Guide is available in four formats, as described below.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about the Guide, please contact the Information Policy Division, Treasury Board Secretariat at clf-nsi@tbs-sct.gc.ca or by telephone at (613) 952-6987.