Siteimprove
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Do you want to make sure your website is accessible to people with disabilities? Accessible sites reach a bigger and more diverse audience, are easier for everyone to use, and comply with UC policy. The Siteimprove tool helps you stay on top of web accessibility by reviewing your content and providing tips on how to fix the errors.
Siteimprove is a web governance and accessibility platform that provides a range of tools and services to help you manage and optimize your websites. The platform is designed to help organizations ensure that their websites are accessible, usable, and optimized for search engines and other web technologies.
Once it has been set up, Siteimprove crawls your website every five days, analyzing your content to identify Quality Assurance issues, ensure Accessibility compliance, and enhance visibility with improved SEO.
Reports
Siteimprove provides several types of reports useful for website maintenance:
- Accessibility: Problems with web pages and PDF documents in relation to the WCAG international standards.
- Quality Assurance: Broken links, misspelled words, and readability issues, including an inventory of your pages, documents, media files, email addresses, and other content.
- Search Engine Optimization: Technical, content, user experience, and mobile-related website issues affecting your non-paid search ranking.
Getting Started
You should talk to your team and devise a plan for using Siteimprove.
While the tool itself is very powerful in providing actionable intelligence, you will still need to make manual corrections and improvements to your website’s content (and sometimes to the code). It’s best to define who will be involved and how the process will be managed upfront.
- Log in to Siteimprove to create an account. (Select University of California, Irvine) and log in with your UCInetID and password.
- Open a ticket to request Siteimprove scanning on your website. Make sure to provide your website’s address (URL).
The ticket will be assigned to the Siteimprove administrators who will create your account on Siteimprove and start scanning your website. - Log in to Siteimprove to check the provided reports and start making improvements! Check the Support tab to learn how to use Siteimprove.
Help Center
Siteimprove has an incredibly comprehensive Help Center, so please consult their documentation if you have usability questions.
IT Help Desk support will be limited to technical questions where administrator assistance may be required (such as initiating/revoking user access and requesting sites to be added or removed).
But don’t worry! If we can’t help you directly, there’s enhanced support available through Siteimprove and we’ll ensure your issue is handled by an expert.