IBM® Rational® Policy Tester reduces Website compliance risk by helping to ensure the accessibility of Web applications and content, as well as the privacy and quality of Website content. Policy Tester is centrally administered, Web-based, and features a core scan engine that crawls through Web site content and applications for privacy, accessibility, and quality issues. Policy Tester prioritizes findings and generates actionable reports that assist developers, testers, and Web content creators with remediation. Policy Tester supports multiple user roles and access permissions, and reduction in online risk can be tracked over time and displayed through graphical management dashboards.
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| Compatibility and pricing | Privacy Edition | Quality Edition | Accessibility Edition |
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| Description | Web-based, multi-user solution providing centralized scanning of Web content for privacy compliance | Web-based, multi-user solution providing centralized scanning of Web content for quality | Web-based, multi-user solution providing centralized scanning of Web content for accessibility compliance |
| Operating system | Windows | Windows | Windows |
| Licensing | By page count scanned | By page count scanned | By page count scanned |
| Key factor | Helps ensure compliance with online privacy regulations and internal privacy policies | Helps ensure the quality of Web content | Helps ensure compliance with online accessibility regulations and internal accessibility policies |
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| Parsing Flash files |  |
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| Automatically explore and test applications based on AJAX frameworks | |
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| Enhanced scan engine performance, especially for sites using JavaScript | |
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| Multiple simultaneous scans | |
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| Out of the box compliance reports | |
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| Pre-defined scan templates | |
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| Pattern search rules | |
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| Testing Javascript | |
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| Real-time results view | |
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| Web console for centralized user access and administration | |
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| Central repository for data aggregation | |
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| Integration with other IBM Rational products | |
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| Quick scan | |
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| Complex authentication support | |
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| User controls | |
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| Testing HTML | |
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| Automatically explore and test WebSphere Portal applications | |
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| Enhanced REST API, providing the ability to create and run scans programmatically | |
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| Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) | |
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| Pages collecting PII using the GET method of form submission | |
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| Pages collecting PII without a privacy statement link | |
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| Pages with privacy statement links | |
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| Pages collecting PII | |
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| California Assembly Bill 1950 and Senate Bill 1386 | |
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| Web beacons inventory | |
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| Control inventory reports | |
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| Third-party links inventory | |
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| Section 208 Guidelines | |
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| Cookie inventory | |
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| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) | |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) | |
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| Form inventory reports | |
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| Safe Harbor | |
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| Interaction problems using forms or performing checkouts | |
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| Search and navigation analysis | |
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| Custom quality reports based on your organization's internal standards | |
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| Sluggish page loading, multiple warnings and redirects | |
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| Broken links, spelling errors, broken anchors | |
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| WWW Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0, (WCAG) 2.0 | |
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| Enhanced WCAG 2.0 compliance assessment capabilities, including WAI-ARIA support | |
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| Ability to test Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for accessibility issues | |
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| AccessiWeb | |
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| Custom accessibility guidelines based on your own internal policies | |
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| Section 508 Guidelines | |