The complete checklist with developer guidelines can be found at IBM's website.
| Checkpoint | Yes/No/Planned/NA | Comments |
| 1. Images and animations | Yes | Important images such as toolbar icons are readable in screenreaders. Less important images such as object placeholders and infrequently used smiley icons are given alt="". |
| 2. Image maps | NA | There are no image maps in the editor. |
| 3. Graphs and charts | NA | There are no graphs and charts in the editor. |
| 4. Multimedia | NA | There are no video or audio contents in the editor. |
| 5. Scripts | Yes | Most or all functions in the editor are accessible from keyboard. |
| 6. Applets, plugins and non-HTML content | Planned | There is no alternative text for plugin placeholders in the editor yet. |
| 7. Forms | Yes | The editor is designed to let screenreaders read out its name. |
| 8. Skip to main content | Yes | Pressing tab and shift-tab to change focus to the editor from outside will put the focus directly into the editing area, instead of other focusable elements of the editor (e.g. toolbar buttons). |
| 9. Frames | Yes | IFrames in the editor, such as the WYSIWYG editing area and combo boxes, are given screenreader accessible labels. |
| 10. Table headers | NA | There are no table headers in the editor UI. |
| 11. Cascading style sheets | Yes | The editor and its dialogs are still usable without cascading style sheets. Toolbar buttons appear as textual links without CSS. |
| 12. Color and contrast | Yes | Toolbar buttons will appear as textual buttons in Windows high contrast mode. Selection of text and background colors is still possible with textual labels in the color selection panels. |
| 13. Blinking, moving or flickering content | Yes | There are no blinking or flickering contents in the editor. Moveable UI elements such as dialogs can only be moved in a smooth fashion by the user. |
| 14. Timed responses | NA | There are no time outs in UI elements of the editor. |
| 15. Text-only page | Yes | An equivalent text-only page with a <textarea> element can be created by not activating CKEditor's replace API. |
| 16. Verify accessibility | Yes |