EqualGround Website Accessibility Scanning Platform Update – July 2024
The release provides a comprehensive Dashboard to view the overall accessibility of an institution, SEO auditing, an Accessibility Report for web pages, credit summary tracking, a new accessibility check for color contrast issues, and the option to subscribe to email notifications.
- Comprehensive Dashboard Summary to View the Accessibility of an Institution
EqualGround will collect the accessibility scores across an institution to provide a comprehensive summary of the institution’s accessibility. In-depth reporting can be viewed for each category by clicking View Full Report.
- Detailed Reports for SEO Auditing
We’ve built our own engine to crawl websites and analyze SEO-related issues such as:- Missing canonical tags to prevent duplicate content.
- Links and documents are not crawlable.
- Missing language tags for pages.
- Links do not contain descriptive text.
- Missing metadata from documents.
- Invalid robots.txt file
- Accessibility Report – Compare WCAG Criteria by their Score or the Number of Issues
The Accessibility Report offers a comparative analysis of a selected web page’s WCAG criteria— A, AA, AAA, and ARIA. A graph visualizes these analytics, displaying them based on their accessibility score or the number of issues each criterion has. The report also displays the most common issues on the web page, organized by the WCAG success criteria.
- Credit Summary to Track the Use of Scanned Pages and Documents
EqualGround offers institutions credits for scanning web pages and documents. The Credits Usage Report tracks monthly credit usage and provides a usage history, allowing for trends to be analyzed.
- In-Depth Accessibility Scanning for Documents
Documents will be scanned to ensure they comply with WCAG accessibility guidelines. Administrators can then access details for their documents to view a list of identified accessibility issues.
- New Accessibility Check for Color Contrast Issues
To ensure sufficient color contrast between the text and the background, EqualGround will calculate the contrast ratio to identify occurrences of the issue. Website owners can then update their pages based on the report provided.
- Subscribe to EqualGround Email Notifications
Users can subscribe to receive email notifications alerting them to specific actions on the platform, such as completed scans or when the usage limit is about to be reached.
