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Have we checked that the destination urls are valid ?

Recommendation 

Hyperlinks

B People

B Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

*

Priority

Low

Récurrence

Periodic

Tests

How often do you check the links?

Precisions

Content uses external references rather than duplicating information. Each link is likely to be activated and will generate a network request, so it must be valid. Otherwise, the user may not understand the source of the error and generate multiple unsuccessful attempts with the use of technical resources without any results.

Use Case

User tests / navigation

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Number of html links validated / Number of html links

Life cycle

Administration

8 other criteria related to the recommendation: Ensure the link between content and uses

Recommendation Essential

Downloads

Are the documents to download compressed, optimized and accessible ?

Advice

SEO

Is SEO tracking information traced and streamlined so as not to collect unnecessary items ?

Recommendation

Hyperlinks

Are all links and link images useful ?

Advice

Text

Are the texts made available to users adapted to target audiences far from reading electronic content (illectronism) ?

Advice

Forms

Has the number of fields been reduced to a minimum (example: are non-compulsory fields necessary ?

Recommendation

Forms

Is the user data collected and exposed clearly identified as personal and / or sensitive data when this is the case ?

Recommendation

Broadcast content

Can the user personalize the frequency and scope of the content broadcast ?

Advice

Downloads

In the case of a long PDF document, is it possible to download it chapter by chapter ?