Custom Check Library | DubBot Help Center

Custom Check Overview

DubBot allows you to write your own Custom Checks/Policies.

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Best Practices for accessibility and improved SEO

Link that uses phrase "Click Here"

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Long Page Title

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Non-descriptive link text

Full URL address is linked instead of text

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Flag for potential issues with content

Contains words in all capital letters

Search for cases where words contain all capital letters

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Identify Unwanted Abbreviations

Identify cases of the use of abbreviations on your site.

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Locate repeating short words

Locate instances of repeated words within your content.

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Long paragraphs

For online texts, the recommended length of a paragraph is 40-50 words, or four to five lines.

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Lowercase campus

"Campus" should be capitalized when used in conjunction with city name.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Image Alt text is short

Short alt text can sometimes be an indication that included alt text is not descriptive.

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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

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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.

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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

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URL contains /index/

Find URLs within content that contains a certain kind of syntax

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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

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Flag the use of <b> tags

Use the software to identify certain tags in your CSS

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Flag the use of Font Tags

Locate any use of font tags on your site

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Flag pages using H4 headings

Flag usage of H4 headings on pages.

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Flag pages with fixed width tables

Custom check for locating pages that have fixed width tables

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Identify Empty Heading tags

Identify pages on your site where heading tags are being used, but are empty.

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Repeating br tags

Multiple line breaks are consecutively used in the page.

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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.

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Search for Unwanted Domain

The following is a Custom Check to identify a domain on your site

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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

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Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="file"

Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality

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Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="image"

Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality

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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

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Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="password"

Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality

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Flag pages with <input> elements marked as type="radio"

Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality

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Flag pages with the <object> element

Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality

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Flag pages with <textarea> element

Allows users to review pages with specific elements for additional quality

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