Siteimprove Dashboards

Overview 

When you login to Siteimprove, you’ll be in the ‘Dashboard’ panel. Dashboards are customized with ‘widgets’ to view different types of information all at once. 

You will automatically be in the ‘_Accessibility at Berkeley’ dashboard. This dashboard has been customized to show you information that is important for monitoring your site’s accessibility. 

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Screenshot of the Siteimprove interface. An arrow points toward the "Dashboard" option in the navigation panel.

Power Users can create customized dashboards. Learn more about different Siteimprove User Roles. 

Understanding the '_Accessibility at Berkeley' Dashboard 

Once you find your site, you will be able to see your site’s accessibility score details.

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Score details (Accessibility) 

Important: Siteimprove is an automatic checker, and isn’t perfect. There is no Siteimprove score that means your site fully meets WCAG 2.1 AA.

Screenshot of an example of the Score Details (Accessibility) widget. This widget gives a score breakdown of Level A, Level Double A, ARIA, and Siteimprove Best Practices.

The ‘Score details (Accessibility)’ widget breaks down your Siteimprove accessibility score by WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria. 

  • A: The lowest level of accessibility conformance. Basic accessibility guidelines have been met. 
  • AA: Content is accessible to most people, in most situations. To reach level AA compliance, you will need to fix all issues at the A level. 
  • WAI-ARIA authoring practices: Typically developer focused. These are used to improve the functionality of your website. 
  • Accessibility best practices: These are not required to meet WCAG, but do improve the usability of your website. We encourage you to review and correct these issues.  

Accessibility 

Important: Siteimprove is an automatic checker, and isn’t perfect. There is no Siteimprove score that means your site fully meets WCAG 2.1 AA.

Screenshot of an example of the Accessibility widget in Siteimprove. The site score is displayed as 98.8%.

The ‘Accessibility’ widget shows your overall Siteimprove accessibility score. You can select ‘View Accessibility overview’ to navigate to the Accessibility audit panel. 

Accessibility score progress 

Screenshot of an example of the Accessibility score progress bar widget. The progress is shown with a percentage on the Y axis and progressive dates on the X axis.

The ‘Accessibility score progress’ widget shows your overall accessibility score over time.

Issues 

Screenshot of an example of the Issues widget in Siteimprove.

The ‘Issues’ widget breaks down known accessibility issues that Siteimprove has found on your website. You can use this panel to get a better understanding of what needs to be fixed on what pages of your website. 

Non descriptive link text 

Screenshot of an example of the Non descriptive link text widget in Siteimprove.

The ‘Non descriptive link text’ widget shows any non descriptive links that Siteimprove has found on your website. This makes it much easier to find and fix these issues.

Learn more about non descriptive links.

Accessibility-tested PDFs 

Screenshot of an example of the Accessibility-tested PDFs in Siteimprove.

The ‘Accessibility-tested PDFs’ widget shows all of the PDFs on your website that Siteimprove can find, along with more information about the accessibility of these files.

Learn more about what Siteimprove can tell us about our PDFs.