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When selection lists are available, are they limited to values ​​relevant to the service user ?

Recommendation 

Forms

B People

C Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

**

Priority

Low

Récurrence

OnUpdate

Tests

Do you have unnecessary elements (for example AUSTRALIA for a Franco-French service) in the lists (for example countries) ?

Precisions

When entering data from lists, the volume of the lists can provide entries that are of no interest and generate totally unnecessary volume: for example, a list of countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe for a Franco-French service for which the country is not a critical datum, while example choices such as "France, Europe, Other" would suffice.

Use Case

Source code checks / Browser / navigation tests

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Number of selection lists analyzed / Number of selection lists

Life cycle

Réalisation

13 other criteria related to the recommendation: Reduce the footprint of static content

Recommendation Essential

Pictures

Have the images been compressed upstream in a format suitable for viewing ?

Recommendation

Pictures

What images are really meaningful and useful for understanding the service (examples: logo, images, links, contractual images, etc.) ?

Recommendation

Pictures

What images can we avoid (not useful for understanding the service) ?

Recommendation

Text

Can text replace certain types of images (icons, picto ...) ?

Recommendation

Pictures

Is an alternative to images always available ?

Advice

Animated content

Is the information overlay removed ?

Recommendation

Text

Has the impact of internationalisation (multi-languages, etc.) been assessed ?

Recommendation

Text

Is there a limit to the number of different fonts ?

Recommendation

Text

Do you prefer system fonts ?

Advice

Forms

Is the configuration of the form minimal (so as not to overload the code for unhelpful styles) ?

Recommendation

Forms

Does the form allow the user to disable dynamic functions (ex: auto completion) ?

Recommendation

Forms

Are the forms useful (example: not creating an account for the purchase of a product / service - e-commerce) ?

Advice

Forms

Are robots banned and unsolicited access treated by inexpensive solutions (captcha vs "addition", ....) ?