It's a managed service that automatically scans every page of every website to expose usability, accessibility and brand integrity issues to local web editors and the central management team.
Website Quality Monitoring is the best practice way of ensuring that your website quality methodologies (brand guidelines, editor training, CMS templates and support systems) are actually working. It's the only way to measure and manage your website quality efforts.
ActiveStandards™ uploads and scans your entire web presence on a regular basis, then runs a series of checkpoints against every page. Breaches are reported in two dashboards: a local Website dashboard for local editors and a global Management dashboard for the central management team.
There are very real limits to the control you can exercise over what editors input into a CMS. Even a tightly defined data entry system will have gaps in the control it can provide. E.g. authors are often free to choose the case, style and text length of their entries.
Most companies opt to configure their CMS for flexibility, with minimal editorial restrictions at the point of data entry. The benefits of an open input system are: speed, ease of use and adaptability to different types of content. But flexibility also makes sites vulnerable to standards violations.
ActiveStandards™ is an essential counterpart to any CMS.
Manual auditing is time consuming, costly and inefficient.
ActiveStandards™ checks every single occurrence, of every standards rule, on every page of your web presence performing diagnostics at a volume and level of accuracy impossible to achieve manually, even with the most rigorous and determined of human checkers.
On a typical group website, ActiveStandards™ can perform hundreds of thousands of checks every session. This table provides an example of the volume of individual standards checks that are performed by ActiveStandards™ in a single reporting session.
