Checking website accessibility with Siteimprove

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Accessible sites reach a bigger and more diverse audience, are easier for everyone to use, and comply with UC policy.</p> <p>Now UC personnel have access to a great tool – Siteimprove – to stay on top of web accessibility. Siteimprove is a cloud service that enables you to systematically review your sites for accessibility.</p> <p>Sites are crawled on a regular basis – every five days – and reports identifying accessibility errors and how to fix them are issued to the site owner.</p> <p>Learn more in the UC IT Blog article, “<a href="https://cio.ucop.edu/uc-gets-systemwide-website-accessibility-checker/">UC Gets Systemwide Website Accessibility Checker</a>.”</p> <h3>Reports</h3> <p>Siteimprove provides several types of reports useful for website maintenance:</p> <ul> <li>Accessibility: Problems with web pages and PDF documents in relation to the WCAG international standards.</li> <li>Quality Assurance: Broken links, misspelled words, and readability issues, including an inventory of your pages, documents, media files, email addresses, and other content.</li> <li>Search Engine Optimization: Technical, content, user experience, and mobile-related website issues affecting your non-paid search ranking.</li> <li>Policy: Style-guide violations or other issues (e.g., terminology, branding/trademarks, file sizes, page structure) based on industry best practices or your customized policies.</li> </ul> <h3>Scanning Your Sites</h3> <p>UC has a systemwide contract with Siteimprove that provides for unlimited users and allows an unlimited number of pages to be scanned. To get a Siteimprove account and start scanning your sites:</p> <ul> <li>First <a href="https://siteimprove.ucop.edu">log in to Siteimprove</a>  to get an account. (The UC account uses single sign-on.)</li> <li><strong>UC Berkeley users</strong> – please use the <a href="https://siteimprove.berkeley.edu/">specific URL for UC Berkeley's Siteimprove instance</a>.</li> <li>Next, send your Siteimprove <a href="admin-contacts.html">location administrator</a> a list of the URLs you want scanned by Siteimprove.</li> <li>Add a <a href="analytics-javascript-code.html">script to your site that helps you prioritize the issues to fix</a>. If you don't have access to add the script to your CMS, contact your website/system administrator.</li> <li>Later, if needed, contact your <a href="admin-contacts.html">location administrator</a> to make any configuration changes to your site scans.</li> </ul> <h3>Using Siteimprove</h3> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Note: Siteimprove is primarily used to monitor UC public sites</span></strong>. To test password-protected sites, either</p> <ol> <li>use the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/siteimprove-accessibility/efcfolpjihicnikpmhnmphjhhpiclljc?hl=en-US" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Siteimprove Chrome extension</a>, or</li> <li>follow procedures to request approval from your location admin to <a href="non-public-websites.html">check non-public facing sites</a> that contain no sensitive data.</li> </ol> <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ol> <li>Complete <a href="https://support.siteimprove.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360018579432--EN-On-Demand-Webinar-Accessibility-101">Siteimprove's Accessibility 101 Webinar</a> (must be logged in to view).</li> <li>Consider completing <a href="https://support.siteimprove.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115000069171-Complete-List-of-Interactive-Tutorials">Interactive Tutorials</a>, and more <a href="https://support.siteimprove.com/hc/en-gb/categories/360000205017">Siteimprove Webinars</a> (must be logged in to view)</li> </ol> <h3>Information for Location Admins</h3> <p>Additional information is provided for designated Siteimprove location administrations in the <a href="admin-guide.html">admin guide</a>.</p> <h3>Support</h3> <p>A lot of information is available in the Siteimprove app under the Help tab.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://support.siteimprove.com/hc/en-gb" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Siteimprove Help Center</a></li> <li><a href="https://support.siteimprove.com/hc/en-gb/categories/200848163-Support-FAQs" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Guides and Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> </ul> <p>You may submit tickets to <a href="mailto:support@siteimprove.com">support@siteimprove.com</a>.</p> </div> <div aria-label="sidebar" class="span4 sidebar" role="navigation"> <div class="row"> <div class="span4 blustripe"> <h5>Siteimprove Resources</h5> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Checking websites</a></li> <li><a href="non-public-websites.html">Checking non-public-facing sites</a></li> <li><a href="https://forms.gle/ocvTevDJV1msAoku5">Request a scan of a non-public-facing site</a></li> <li><a href="admin-guide.html">Admin guide</a></li> <li><a href="admin-faq.html">Admin FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="admin-contacts.html">Admin contacts</a></li> <li><a href="siteimprove-tutorials.html">Tutorials</a></li> <li><a href="analytics-javascript-code.html">Priority Script</a></li> <li><a href="../../training-and-conferences/siteimprove-e-courses-on-accessibility.html">e-Courses on Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="siteimprove-tip-sheets.html">Siteimprove Tip Sheets</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="span4 blustripe"> <h5>Accessibility Tools</h5> <ul> <li><a href="../captioning-tools.html">Captioning tools</a></li> <li><a href="../color-analyzers.html">Color analyzers</a></li> <li><a href="../manual-testing.html">Manual testing</a></li> <li><a href="../guidelines-accessible-surveys-forms.html">Survey tools</a></li> <li><a href="../testing-tools.html">Testing tools</a></li> <li><a href="../web-developer-tools.html">Web developer tools</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row less3 novrflw"> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  <footer></footer>   <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>/*<![CDATA[*/window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="/_common/files/js/jquery.1.7.1.min.js"><\/script>')/* ]]>*/</script> <script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.0.4/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script>/*<![CDATA[*/$.fn.modal || document.write('<script src="/_common/files/js/bootstrap.2.0.4.min.js"><\/script>')/* ]]>*/</script> <script src="/_common/files/js/modernizr.js"></script>  <script src="/_common/files/js/jquery-ui-1.12.1.js"></script> <script src="/_common/files/js/plugins.js"></script> <script src="/_common/files/js/main.js?v=1.2.2.1"></script> <script async="" src="/_common/files/js/ga.js"></script> <script async="" src="/_common/files/js/autotrack.js"></script> </body> </html>

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