Formal HTML and XML Validation.

• Standards: W3C, IETF, ISO/IEC, WapForum, Oasis
• Also supports user-defined SGML and XML standards
• Genuine validation, unlike many products that claim validation (see google for evidence of this)
• XML support is more complete than other HTML validation services (W3C and WDG)
• The only tool to provide a constant report on the validity of a web site without the need for human intervention whenever a change occurs

Detailed accessibility analysis for HTML and XHTML documents

• Builtin support for WCAG (W3C Accessibility Guidelines) at all levels, and for US Govt Section 508
• Interactive analysis and reporting for developers
• Reporting for QA and Management
• Audit Trail: keeps track of assssments and of changes - and whether they affect accessibility

Metadata indexing and audit:

• Support for widely used standards (e.g. Dublincore) and user-defined standards (e.g. company internal)
• Can be integrated with company processes - e.g. to require a review-date variable for every page and remind the person responsible when that approaches

Link Maintenance:

• Broken links
• Redirected links
• Recently-updated links
• Content-negotiated links
• Interactive Query functions offer an instant list of all pages linking either to or from a URL

Report Options:

• Periodic (by email - catch problems that arise by accident)
• Interactive on-demand (by query)
• Interactive on-demand (by instant check - cf online Valet tools)
• Interactive browse: Site Map and Page-by-page
• Manual assessment *
• Historic audit trail *

(* = apply only to accessibility)

Instant Query

• Functions available for providing instant query on validity, accessibility, links and metadata
• Interactive re-check

Document and link browsing:

• Instantly see all the links to/from a page, validity, accessibility audit, metadata, HTTP

Report Formats:

• Plain Text
• HTML
• XML
• EARL (Evaluation And Repair Language)
• Interactive browsing
• Others by request (e.g. generate from the XML using XSLT)