Why is accessibility important?

Accessibility is important for several reasons, including: <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>Legal Compliance: Many countries have laws that require websites to be accessible. Failing to meet these standards can lead to legal consequences, including fines and lawsuits. </li> <li>Ethical Responsibility: Everyone should have equal access to information and opportunities. Making websites accessible ensures inclusivity for people with disabilities. </li> <li>Business Benefits: Accessible websites attract more visitors, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost brand reputation. They also improve search engine rankings and increase overall usability for all users. </li> </ul>

How can Siteimprove help you make your website accessible?

Siteimprove supports you on your journey to making your website accessible by focusing on four main steps: <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>Identifying accessibility issues: Our software automatically scans your website to detect potential accessibility problems, ensuring you know what needs to be fixed. </li> <li>Prioritizing those issues: We help you focus on the most critical accessibility problems first, so you can address the most impactful issues promptly. </li> <li>Resolving problems: We’ll offer the guidance and tools to resolve identified issues, making it easier to implement necessary changes and improvements. </li> <li>Monitoring accessibility: You’ll have the tools to track your progress and ensure ongoing compliance, helping you maintain accessibility standards over time and adapt to any new regulations or guidelines. </li> </ul>

DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY & GOVERNANCE

Create an error-free, all-inclusive site

Build a compliant digital experience and welcome every single visitor:

WCAG 2.2, EAA, ADA, and Section 508

Universal and custom accessibility rules

Accessible code suggestions

Recognized as a leader in digital accessibility

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Your key to quality assurance and compliance

No more errors, no more issues. Siteimprove helps you check every box with confidence and build an inclusive brand experience.

Automated accessibility checks

No idea where to start with WCAG 2.2, Section 508, ADA, HIPAA, and EAA compliance? No problem.

Scan one site or dozens at the same time. Get a comprehensive list of issues to prioritize. Rest assured that every PDF is scanned, too, so every error is surfaced.

Custom rules scans

Go one step further than universal standards and make sure every corner of your site is consistent with your brand.

Create your own policies, scan your site, and meet not just regulations, but your own advanced criteria.

Link and spell checker

Never let a single error slip through. Nothing compromises your brand quite like 404s and typos. Siteimprove finds and flags each and every one, even at the deepest layers of your site. And makes it easy to instantly access and fix them directly in your CMS.

Supports your framework

Designed by developers, for developers. Siteimprove scans from inside your test framework, browser, IDE/CLI, or CI/CD tool. And, when errors are flagged, you can even choose from context-specific, AI-based code recommendations. That have already cleared accessibility checks.

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INTEGRATIONS

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Achieving a 100% Accessibility score with Siteimprove sounds like:

“For a small team, meeting the expectations of our patients and population and maintaining the health of our website is very achievable with Siteimprove.”

Pamela Wilcox

Digital Manager

Northern Arizona Healthcare

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Your questions, answered

Website accessibility ensures that everyone, including people with disabilities, can easily use and interact with a website. This means designing and building websites so that all users, regardless of their abilities, can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the content.

Accessibility is important for several reasons, including:

Legal Compliance: Many countries have laws that require websites to be accessible. Failing to meet these standards can lead to legal consequences, including fines and lawsuits.
Ethical Responsibility: Everyone should have equal access to information and opportunities. Making websites accessible ensures inclusivity for people with disabilities.
Business Benefits: Accessible websites attract more visitors, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost brand reputation. They also improve search engine rankings and increase overall usability for all users.

Siteimprove supports you on your journey to making your website accessible by focusing on four main steps:

Identifying accessibility issues: Our software automatically scans your website to detect potential accessibility problems, ensuring you know what needs to be fixed.
Prioritizing those issues: We help you focus on the most critical accessibility problems first, so you can address the most impactful issues promptly.
Resolving problems: We’ll offer the guidance and tools to resolve identified issues, making it easier to implement necessary changes and improvements.
Monitoring accessibility: You’ll have the tools to track your progress and ensure ongoing compliance, helping you maintain accessibility standards over time and adapt to any new regulations or guidelines.

Our automatic testing evaluates websites against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2), covering all levels of accessibility (A, AA, AAA) and ARIA standards. This, paired with additional testing against industry best practices, ensures a thorough assessment of your website's compliance with these key guidelines. We also employ Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) rules, an industry standard for testing WCAG coverage, to scan websites for accessibility issues.

Additionally, our manual testing is conducted by accessibility professionals who provide a detailed, human perspective on accessibility issues that automated tests might miss. By combining automated and manual testing methods, Siteimprove provides a comprehensive approach to assessing website accessibility, helping organizations achieve and maintain compliance with accessibility standards.