Scsi's "Perfect 10" Mobile Web Site Standard-based Scsi's Test Criteria Evaluation Worksheet (STCEW) This document is viewable at the following URL address: http://sonoffconsulting.mobi/mobile_stcew_perfect_10_conformity_checklist.txt NOTE: For additional on-line-based supporting details, visit the Web site's Web page at URL address http://sonoffconsulting.mobi/mobile_unique_features.html. STEP 1 -- Check for the presence or absence on any given Mobile Web page of each of Scsi's Mobile Web Best Practices for Mobile Web Usability and Accessibility, scoring ten points for each Mobile Web Best Practice that you answer a "Yes" and zero points for any "No" answers. Best Practice #1. Every Mobile Web page is fast loading. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Don’t the designers respect a person’s time, having users wait for so long for a given Mobile Web page to finish loading?" Best Practice #2. Every Mobile Web page is viewable with any type of browser. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Why have the designers failed to address such environmental facts of life, such as my browser tools may be either Web- or text-based, and the Operating System I use might be UNIX, Mac, Linux, Windows, or whatever --- not just Windows?" Best Practice #3. Every Mobile Web page incorporates meaningful, descriptive 'balloon help' text for every hyperlink (both text- and graphics-based). If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Don’t designers know that I want to know where each and every navigational choice will be taking me --- if I do make a specific hyperlink selection?" Best Practice #4. Every Mobile Web page's navigation always remains under user control, thereby allowing use of any combination of keyboard, mouse, or other pointing devices as hyperlink selection tools. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Am I willing to be restricted by the designers from being able to make use of the keyboard for site navigation? … and … Why do they force me to put up with cumbersome “one-to-many” mouse-dependent menu navigation schemes?" Best Practice #5. Every Mobile Web page incorporates an integral and effective dual-domain search window. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Why isn’t there a Mobile Search window? … and … How come the Mobile Web design forces me to open another browser window? … and … Why haven’t the Mobile Web designers provided the dual functionality searching which Scsi has so convincingly demonstrated is both possible and practical?" Best Practice #6. Every Mobile Web page's text viewing size selections remain under user control at all times — according to the particular browser tool's available selections. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "How come --- even when the browser’s menu allows for changing text size selections --- the designers actually prevent me from being able to apply that desired feature?" Best Practice #7. Every Mobile Web page's contents will always automatically resize widthwise to fill the entire browser window — no matter what screen resolution settings or window sizes are in effect at any time. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "If I’ve got a large display screen and high screen resolution settings in effect, then why must I put up with ‘lost real estate’ (blank areas) around the displayed Mobile Web page’s contents?" Best Practice #8. Every 'Print this page' operation automatically results in an intelligently word-wrapped, truncation-free, black-on-white printout of that Mobile Web page's main body contents --- regardless of the Mobile Web page orientation and user-specified text size selection in effect at that time. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Why am I putting up with so many nuisance items --- especially truncated paragraphs of text --- by these Mobile Web designers when I now know that they really could give me the kind of intelligent printing that Scsi has demonstrated I should get every time I choose to execute a Print-This-Page operation?" Best Practice #9. Every Mobile Web page incorporates readily accessible contact information. If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Why is such an obvious courtesy either not provided at all, or is frequently so hard to locate, or doesn’t even provide me with the information I really am seeking?" Best Practice #10. Every Mobile Web page validates against the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Content Guidelines (WCAG). If the answer is no, ask yourself, "Why can’t all Mobile Web site designers decide first to always take the time to do all the right things to create a rock-solid foundation upon which to build their Mobile Web page content for both my as well as for their benefit? Don’t they get it?" STEP 2 -- Add together the points you have assessed to come up with the final score for the Mobile Web page you are currently testing. STEP 3 -- Determine that Mobile Web page's conformance to Scsi's "Perfect 10" Mobile Web Site Standard according to the following scale: 0 points reflects Total Failure, 10 or 20 points is considered Abysmal, 30 or 40 points is Poor, 50 or 60 points is Fair, 70 or 80 points is Good, 90 points is Excellent, and 100 points is Perfect and would equate to World Class Level Quality. STEP 4 -- Repeat STEPs 1 through 3 for any other Mobile Web pages of interest to you at this time. STEP 5 -- When done with all of your testing, ask yourself, "Does any other Web site's pages even come close to perfection?" And if you find that you really do need professional help to improve your Mobile Web site's score, call Scsi at 859-261-5908 for prompt assistance. Copyright 2003-2009 --- Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc., 271 Saxony Drive, Crestview Hills, KY 41017-2294 USA. Phone: (859) 261-5908. All Rights Reserved.