Siteimprove

Siteimprove is a website monitoring tool that helps us improve accessibility and usability. Siteimprove is administered and managed by the Digital Accessibility unit in Berkeley IT.

All berkeley.edu and subdomain websites must be monitored in Siteimprove.

Key Features

Siteimprove can help you:

• Improve accessibility to help meet ethical and legal requirements

• Locate and fix broken links and misspellings

• Improve search engine optimization

How do I get access and add my site?

User access:

Log in to siteimprove.berkeley.edu with your CalNet login.  Starting in October 2024, upon login, users will immediately have access to website reports.  Simply select your website in the dashboard.  

Adding websites:

Use the Siteimprove Support Request form to add new websites or remove sites that are no longer active.  

How does it work?

SiteImprove crawls your website every five days, performs a variety of automated accessibility tests, and reports any issues found. Because Siteimprove crawls your site on a regular basis, it can be used for ongoing monitoring and alert you to changes over time. You can also share reports with others or export issues to track remediation tasks.

It is essential that all pages, sections, or subsites of your parent site are linked to somewhere on your website. Otherwise, Siteimprove can not find them.

What sites can we add to Siteimprove?

You should add sites (URLs) that are:

• Owned/managed by UC Berkeley -and-

• Publicly available (do not require login)

• Domains (berkeley.edu) and subdomains (technology.berkeley.edu or printers.technology.berkeley.edu)

We can not add (and should remove):

• Third-party apps, social media pages, and cloud-based services (Facebook, Mural, Smartsheets, Google Sites, etc)

• Redirected URLs

• Printer or scanner URLs

• Sites that require login

• Specific pages of a website, subsites, or subdirectories (Example: We want berkeley.edu entered as a site, but not berkeley.edu/winterfun.) These must be set up as Groups.

How do I use Siteimprove?

Visit How to use Siteimprove to check your site on the Digital Accessibility Program site for guidance.

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