The Siteimprove service can be used for more than just broken links and accessibility violations. In this session, we will explore the different ways that Siteimprove can be utilized on your public facing websites to search for specific content, including CSS classes in use, images or other media that are larger than 1mb, patterns of content using RegEx, and more.
Notes
Session Notes: Leveraging Siteimprove to Search Websites for Specific Content
Stanford IT Unconference 2022
Introduction
- Kevin Murphy, Digital Accessibility Consulting Engineer - presenter
Siteimprove
- Can only scan public sites, nothing behind two factor authentication
Other uses for siteimprove
- Finding content on your site
Executive Summary Dashboard
Review of the Executive Summary dashboard and what is included.
Quality Assurance Dashboard > Inventory
- Under Inventory - you can find all sorts of information about your website, e.g., PDFs, images, media files, etc.
- Can find JS files, CSS files, etc.
- Can be useful to help identify what files are in place or referenced on website
- Sitemap offers perspective of all pages, subdirectories, etc.
- Links
- Ability to filter hyperlinks based on 200 code
- Export this list to code editor
- Clean up file, paste back into Excel, and remove duplicates
- Can then get to a list of websites that are being/not being scanned
- Can export data from Siteimprove and then manipulate via Excel depending on desired outcomes
Policy Dashboard
- Policy can help identify the type of website that is being scanned or be used to find any given condition
- Example of scanning for Drupal site
- Can be used to identify which Drupal websites are in play at Stanford
- Example of two words in a row that are the same
- Easy way to find typos
- Using regular extensions to highlight where there is an issue
- Policy can also be used to find Box accounts or links to Box files
- Demonstration of using Policy function to find:
- Animated GIF
- Large image sizes
- Web pages that start with a specific word or text - such as, “Find all pages that have the word Security in the page title or heading text”
Questions from Audience
- Can you use find a name that has changed (e.g., school or individual)?
- Yes, this is available via Policy
- Can you find typos - spelling errors or repeated entries?
- Can we add sites?
- Need to go through Kevin to add a site. Use form to request help for Siteimprove: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/66724422d1194edbab89f4009dca9c12
- Who can access the Policy option?
- Everyone has access.
- How do you compare Siteimprove vs Lighthouse built into Chrome?
- Siteimprove is for scanning public facing website every 5 days
- Lighthouse is good for manual testing a single page
- Keep in mind that automated tools will only capture ~30% of technical accessibility errors
Contacting Us
Office of Digital Accessibility
