As part of the certification process, state agencies and departments should run different tests or scans to confirm documents and webpages meet acceptance criteria. Your website is certified as accessible when:
- Documents pass acceptance criteria
- Webpages pass acceptance criteria
Document acceptance criteria
Use the acceptance criteria below as a guide to certify documents as accessible for your site.
| Test or scan | Acceptance criteria |
| Run automated tools to scan for accessibility concerns (i.e., accessibility checker) | Zero errors detected |
| Run automated tool to scan for warnings and alerts | Review to ensure no errors found |
| Conduct manual testing of a sampling (up to 1 year of data) | Sampling of the top 65% of documents downloaded passes with zero errors |
| Conduct manual accessibility validation and testing | Passes these checklists: |
Webpage acceptance criteria
Use the acceptance criteria below as a guide to certify web pages as accessible for your site.
| Test or scan | Acceptance criteria |
| Run automated tools to scan for accessibility concerns (i.e., browser extensions, webpage checkers) | Zero WCAG level A, AA errors detected |
| Run automated tools to scan for warnings and alerts | Review to ensure zero level A, AA errors |
| Conduct manual testing of a sampling (up to 1 year of data) | Sampling of the top 65% of documents visited passes with zero level A, AA errors |
| Conduct manual accessibility validation and testing | Pass CDT Web Accessibility Checklist |