Documentation migration acceptance combines automated site checks with representative reader and editor tasks, because a clean build cannot prove that people can find, read, and maintain the migrated material.
Use automated checks to establish the complete surface
A clean build should produce the expected route count, sitemap, canonical URLs, metadata, generated reference pages, assets, and search index. Crawlers then check internal and external links, redirects, duplicate titles, missing descriptions, unexpected noindex directives, orphan pages, and response codes across the target deployment.
The redirect manifest receives its own test because old URLs are outside the new site's normal crawl. Each route must return the approved status, avoid chains and loops, and land on the intended canonical page. Google recommends permanent server-side redirects for moved pages, which makes the deployed response part of acceptance rather than a post-launch cleanup.
Test the paths readers and editors actually use
Representative reader tasks cover getting started, authentication, a common API operation, an error, a conceptual guide, and a search query. Reviewers check navigation, anchors, code samples, copy controls, mobile layout, keyboard focus, headings, contrast, and screen-reader names on the pages that carry the most varied components.
An editor task begins with a source change, opens a preview, requests review, publishes, and confirms the production result. Generated references follow their separate source and build path. The handoff is incomplete when only the migration team can explain how those two publishing systems work.
Record exceptions and the rollback boundary
The release packet lists every accepted content difference, unsupported component, unresolved accessibility issue, missing owner, and delayed redirect. It also states how the domain returns to the old site, how new edits are handled during reversal, and when that rollback option closes. The buyer switches the domain only after reviewing the evidence and exception register.
Where the service stops
Reality Contact, LLC migrates and validates the agreed documentation corpus, but does not decide product policy, invent missing API behavior, approve legal or security content, publish private documentation publicly, or switch the production domain without buyer authorization. The buyer approves keep, merge, retire, route, component, and access decisions, supplies content owners, and switches or authorizes the production domain after build, redirect, accessibility, and parity checks pass. The work is documentation implementation and document preparation, and it does not replace legal, security, accessibility, compliance, or product advice. The buyer owns every content, access, route, retirement, component, claim, and production-domain decision.
Sources: Google permanent redirect guidance; Document360 migration and pricing details.