EqualGround Accessibility Governance Platform Update – v24.9.0 Release
The release includes a new Policy Hub to create specific rules to retrieve content, media, and documents on websites, a new usability report to view overall scores and scores for individual issues, new checks of personal information and unsafe domains from the usability engine, and information on how usability scores will be improved when each issue is resolved.
- New Policy Hub to Create Specific Rules to Retrieve Information on Website Content, Media, and Documents
Your organization’s website will constantly need to be updated as things change, and it can be tedious to locate all the items that need updating. To help you locate such items, we’re introducing the Policy Hub, which allows for the automatic identification of specific types of content, media, or documents across your web pages. For example, in certain situations where you need to locate specific images to replace on your website, you can create a policy to match the exact image name and find them across all web pages. You can even run multiple policies at once on a website to:- Locate web content, such as text, HTML elements, and links
- Identify media by file name, size, or type (e.g., images, audio, or video)
- Check for alt text in images for accessibility
- Identify specific document types, names, or sizes
- New Usability Report to View Scores for Individual Issues and the Overall Score Over Time
The new Usability Report provides an overview of your organization’s usability scores, along with detailed insights into individual usability criteria. This allows you to monitor usability performance over time and offers actionable insights to improve user interactions and engagement across your sites. Key highlights of the report include:- View usability scores and issue counts across various criteria such as readability, spelling, broken links, personal information, and unsafe domains.
- Compare overall scores or specific usability criteria over time to identify trends and measure improvements.
- The Usability Engine Provides More Checks to Ensure the Privacy of Content and Safety of Visitors
EqualGround now includes more advanced checks on your web pages to prevent the public exposure of sensitive data and enhance your visitors’ safety. The new checks include:- Personal information, such as
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Social Insurance Numbers
- Unsafe domains, such as
- Phishing or malware sites
- Harmful application download links
- Links that prompt users to share confidential information
For cases where certain information, such as an organization’s email or phone number, needs to be publicly displayed, you can add them to the exclusion list to prevent unnecessary flagging.
- Personal information, such as
- Information on How Your Score Will Improve When Usability Issues Are Resolved
The new usability score improvement indicator lets you know the percentage increase in the overall score when a usability issue is resolved, providing a more accurate forecast of improvements and helping you to prioritize which issue to address first.
