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Custom Check Library
Pre-built Custom Checks available for use
35 articles in this collection
Written by
Blaine Herman
and
Penny Kronz
Custom Check Overview
DubBot allows you to write your own Custom Checks/Policies.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Best Practices for accessibility and improved SEO
Link that uses phrase "Click Here"
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Long Page Title
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Non-descriptive link text
Full URL address is linked instead of text
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag for potential issues with content
Contains words in all capital letters
Search for cases where words contain all capital letters
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Identify Unwanted Abbreviations
Identify cases of the use of abbreviations on your site.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Locate repeating short words
Locate instances of repeated words within your content.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Long paragraphs
For online texts, the recommended length of a paragraph is 40-50 words, or four to five lines.
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Lowercase campus
"Campus" should be capitalized when used in conjunction with city name.
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Search for consistent phone number formatting
For the sake of consistency your team might have a goal of using (or not using) parentheses & dashes, every time a phone number is utilized.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Text look up
You can use DubBot to search for text that appears in pages. This example uses "Albuquerque" but this test could be used for anything.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Use of lorem ipsum as a placeholder
"Lorem ipsum" is used often as a placeholder for text. This Custom Check can monitor your site to make sure that its not used in production.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Alt Text quality add-on checks
Alt text is the same as the file name
Alt text should not be the same as the filename because filenames are typically not descriptive of the image being displayed or its purpose
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Image Alt text is short
Short alt text can sometimes be an indication that included alt text is not descriptive.
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Image is marked-up as decorative
Flags images for review to confirm that they are truly decorative in nature and should not have alternative text
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Search for unwanted language or characters in ALT Text
Certain language is not descriptive enough for users who are visually impaired. This check helps to uncover the usage of generic language.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Flag for potential issues with links
Identify old or legacy links
You might want to remove old links from your site after a redesign. The following Custom Check example searches for links that contain .php
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
URL contains /index/
Find URLs within content that contains a certain kind of syntax
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Flag for potentially undesired HTML in content
Flag the use of <applet> element in pages
Applet element is no longer supported by many browsers and should no longer be used within pages
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag the use of <b> tags
Use the software to identify certain tags in your CSS
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Flag the use of Font Tags
Locate any use of font tags on your site
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages using H4 headings
Flag usage of H4 headings on pages.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with fixed width tables
Custom check for locating pages that have fixed width tables
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Identify Empty Heading tags
Identify pages on your site where heading tags are being used, but are empty.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Repeating br tags
Multiple line breaks are consecutively used in the page.
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Security
Search for use of Personal Identification Information
Search for personal identification information on your site. This could be social security numbers, Student IDs, credit card numbers, etc.
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Search for Unwanted Domain
The following is a Custom Check to identify a domain on your site
Written by
Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago
Find Pages that contain specific html elements for manual quality review
Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="checkbox"
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="file"
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="image"
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with <input> element with type="image" where provided alt text may not be as concise as possible
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="password"
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="radio"
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with the <object> element
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago
Flag pages with <textarea> element
Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality
Written by
Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago