April 2006 Audit

An audit was made of the Good Practice Guide Web site on Wednesday 26th April 2006.

HTML Validation

The ,rvalidate HTML validation tool was run over the entire Good Practice Guide Web site from the entry points listed below:

Area	Report	Comments	Current findings
GPG entry point	[View report]	All 25 pages compliant.	[Validate]

Comments

Based on these findings the site has been found to be valid HTML.

CSS Validation

The ,cssvalidate tool was run over the Good Practice Guide Web site in order to validate a number of the external stylesheet files. The check was carried out from the entry points listed in the following table.

Area	Comments	Current findings
Good Practice Guide entry point	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Good Practice Guide Introduction Page	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Project Management	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Human Resources	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Procurement Tendering	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
QA Processes	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Intellectual Property Rights	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Standards	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
The Digitisation Process	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Image Formats	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Image Quality	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Creating Online Learning Materials	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Guidelines for Setting up Web Sites	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Usability	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Accessibility	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Sector Statistics	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Content Management Systems	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Emerging Collaborative Technologies	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Metadata Sharing and XML	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Digital Preservation	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
PR and Marketing	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]
Income Generation	Valid CSS file.	[Validate]

Results

The CSS files checked all comply with the CSS standard.

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Link Checking

The ,rchecklink Tool

The ,rchecklink tool was run over the entire Good Practice Guide Web site.

Area	Report	Comments	Current findings
Good Practice Guide entry point	[View report]	16 pages were checked.	[Check]

Results

5 broken links (404 error message) was found on the site.

Comments

Note that the link-checking tools do have some limitations. For example some Web sites have a short 'time out' time, others blocked access to checking tools by the robots.txt, the Web site may be temporarily unavailable, etc.

The Xenu Tool

In addition to the tool described above the Xenu software (version 1.2d) was also used to link-check the Good Practice Guide Web site. This tool was used in order to ensure that all resources on the Good Practice Guide Web site were checked and to see if any link problems not detected by the ,rchecklink tool were found.

Xenu was used first to check local links. Then it was used to check all links.

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Spell Checking

The NetMechanic spell checker was run over the entire QA Focus site from the points listed below:

• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/gpg/print-all/

Results

All spelling mistakes were noted.

Comments

All spelling mistakes were corrected.