DEQUE WORLDSPACE™ QUALITY PRACTICE

Service quality, reduced errors, and increasing reliability of Web content

Adding non-subjective measures to size up the quality of your website and applications, the Quality Practice from Worldspace will give you confidence in the quality of your content. Not to mention increasing your customers confidence in you.

  • Identify all broken links in large Web collections and improve link ownership & stewardship classification.
  • Detect Web pages without titles and multiple pages with the same title which can obfuscate site structure and clarity.
  • Image Gallery showing high quality thumbnail views of all graphics on a website with relevant attributes and allowing easy actual size viewing of selected graphic, categorization by image formats, and quick report on each image's resolution.
  • Locate all dead end pages that will take a user nowhere.
  • Discover orphan pages that no other pages on a site reference.
  • Spot duplicate images so they can be consolidated and website maintenance is easier.
Online Brand, Consistency, and Web Conventions Management

Users are overwhelmed with choices. Now more than ever, a consistent brand and message is critical. It is also hard, monotonous, tedious, and error prone work to make sure every instance on every page follows your guidelines. Automation of consistency checks is the only way to go.

  • Enforce consistent branding and logo usage
  • Make sure of uniform and pervasive sponsorship message
  • Synchronize business forms & data implementation standards
  • Check conventions for spelling, terminology, and interfaces.
  • Adhere to rules for creation & display of hyperlinks
  • Support consistent search and query result methodology
  • Review graphic formats, quality, and attribute design
  • Audit typeface and font properties consistency
  • Check color implementations and display rules
Usability and Web design standards assurance

Are your templates used correctly across the site? Are they used at all? Is the response time of each Web page on your site acceptable? Will your site break down on different browsers on different platforms losing potential customers? Deque Worldspace Interaction & Design practice uses heuristics to automate a significant amount of usability testing and provides Web application scripting capabilities for Web applications.

  • Generate a comprehensive log for all Web browser compatibility issues for all popular browsers on the market today.
  • Report download time and page load efficiency for different connection speeds allowing optimization of Web page design.
  • Identify Web pages with potential missing text in printable area.
  • Review Home Page to make sure all major subject areas and topics are represented.
  • Discover the impact factor of Web pages to see how many citations a page has on a website allowing prioritization and relevancy of each Web page.
Web content conformance to standards issued by Web standard bodies for forward compatibility with technologies
  • Audit all hosts to make sure domains are standardized for clear and unambiguous notification of organization's affiliation.
  • Navigation standardization audit using a unique template registration system allowing identification and automatic discovery of pages without proper navigational structures.
  • Validation of HTML for XHTML compliance.
  • Validation of CSS for compliance with specifications.
  • Identify all abnormal HTTP Status codes and ensure user receives friendly error messages.
  • Extract all embedded email addresses on a website and link text for easy identification of what is routed to whom.