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Confirms the homepage hero leads with a real photograph of the brand owner – not stock, not an illustration – so visitors meet the person immediately.
Category: Website QA Audit
Use this when running Layer 2 (Content Architecture Checks) of the Website QA Audit on a personal-brand site – the hero is the handshake; it must be the actual person.
Inputs
- Homepage URL
- A known reference photo of the owner (to confirm identity)
- Google Images reverse search for stock verification if in doubt
- The audit report/spreadsheet for logging results
Steps
- Load the homepage and check the hero (the first viewport): it must contain a photograph of the brand owner.
- Confirm it is genuinely them – match against the reference photo; fail look-alike stock models, logos-only heroes, or illustration/avatar substitutes.
- Reverse-search the hero image if there is any doubt; a hero photo found on other sites is stock and fails.
- Judge quality at a pass/fail level: the face is clearly visible, in focus, and large enough to register on mobile – a tiny or heavily-overlaid photo fails the intent.
- Check the mobile rendering: the person must still be visible in the mobile hero crop, not cropped out by the responsive layout.
- Log the verdict with desktop and mobile screenshots in the audit report.
Definition of done (QA checklist)
- Hero contains a real, verifiable photo of the owner, clearly visible on both desktop and mobile first viewport
- Photo verified as non-stock (reverse search clean or owner-confirmed original)
- Screenshots logged in the audit report, linked back to /website-qa-audit
Example(s)
- Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run.
File in the zip: skills/website-qa-audit/verify-hero-section-contains-real-photo-of-person.md. Download the Task Library zip.
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