Siteimprove Tips
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All About Emails
This week, I want to showcase two policies covering a similar problem around email links.
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Element is Empty
This week I'd like to talk about a couple of different accessibility violations that you may see on your Siteimprove report (or just about any other accessibility tool, as this is very easy to dete
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Semantic HTML
Using "Semantic" HTML is an important part of designing web pages.
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When Working with Element IDs, Make Them Unique
Under accessibility checks, you may have an issue labeled "Element IDs are not unique" highlighted on your website.
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Siteimprove’s automated tests use the latest accessibility standard, which encompasses both the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and 2.1 criteria.
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Archival Content
a.k.a. “do you really need that PDF about Medicaid billing procedures from 1993?”
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Best Practices for Image ALT Text
This week, I want to highlight a recent policy I wrote called A11y: Bad Alt Text. This policy simply looks for any ALT text that has the word "picture" or "image" in it.
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Siteimprove’s Analytics Script Helps You Prioritize Issues to Fix
When you see a list of 11,789 pages with broken links you may be tempted to close your browser and run away.
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Using Sitemap to Audit Site Content
A feature in Quality Assurance you may not have noticed is Sitemap (Quality assurance -> Inventory -> Sitemap).
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Identifying Stanford Box Files using Siteimprove
This week I want to highlight a Siteimprove policy that has some larger implications.