UCF uses Siteimprove AI to help create more accessible, accurate and user-friendly web experiences for students, employees and visitors. The platform analyzes university websites to identify accessibility barriers, content quality issues and opportunities to improve how information is presented and maintained.
By helping UCF web teams prioritize updates, monitor progress and improve content over time, Siteimprove supports a more consistent and inclusive digital experience across the university. These insights help ensure that people can more easily find, understand and interact with the information and services they need.
Digital accessibility and content quality are shared responsibilities. Siteimprove gives UCF teams practical, data-informed tools to strengthen university websites and support UCF’s commitment to accessible and effective digital experiences for everyone.
What Siteimprove Does
Siteimprove scans UCF websites to generate reports that help teams identify accessibility concerns, content quality issues and opportunities to enhance website performance.
The platform assists web managers to:
- Find common accessibility issues across assigned websites
- Review issues connected to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards
- Prioritize fixes based on severity and user impact
- Identify pages, PDF documents and content areas requiring attention
- Monitor broken links, misspellings and readability concerns
- Review search engine optimization (SEO) recommendations
- Track progress as issues are resolved
- Generate reports for teams, departments or leadership
- Support ongoing monitoring as websites change over time
Why Use Siteimprove?
Accessible websites ensure that all users can locate, comprehend and utilize university digital content. Siteimprove assists teams in transitioning from one-time accessibility audits to an ongoing, sustainable accessibility practice.
Implementing the platform helps teams to:
- Catch issues earlier in the content lifecycle
- Reduce repeated accessibility barriers
- Publish website updates with greater confidence
- Support compliance with UCF digital accessibility expectations
- Create a better experience for users with disabilities
- Improve the overall quality and usability of your website
- Maintain cleaner, more reliable web content
More Than an Accessibility Checker
Although digital accessibility is the primary reason UCF encourages the use of Siteimprove, the platform also supports broader website health and quality metrics.
In addition to accessibility audits, Siteimprove helps teams identify:
- Broken links and broken media references
- Spelling errors and custom vocabulary concerns
- Readability levels and content complexity scores
- Search engine optimization (SEO) layout issues
- Outdated or duplicate content items
- Pages that require immediate review or structural cleanup
- Performance and traffic trends across multiple websites
What Siteimprove Can Help You Find
Siteimprove scans identify numerous common accessibility barriers, including:
- Missing or vague alternative text for images
- Headings that are skipped, empty or structured improperly
- Links that are unclear or repeated without context (e.g., ‘click here’)
- Color contrast ratios that violate readability guidelines
- Form input elements lacking proper descriptive labels
- Table structures lacking designated row or column headers
- PDF documents with critical reading order or structural errors
- Pages with multiple overlapping errors requiring urgent review
What Siteimprove Does Not Replace
Automated accessibility scans are helpful, but they do not identify every barrier. Siteimprove must be integrated into a comprehensive digital accessibility process that includes:
- Keyboard-only navigation testing
- Screen reader testing with actual assistive technologies
- Manual evaluation of page structure, context and cognitive meaning
- Captions, transcripts and audio description verification for videos
- Interactive form and custom application testing
- Usability evaluations from individuals with disabilities
- Direct consultations with the Digital Accessibility Lab
Who Can Request Access?
University faculty and staff members who manage, edit or support official websites may request access to Siteimprove. Student employees who assist with website administration also may be eligible when their supervising department requests or approves access. Eligible roles include:
- Website administrators and product managers
- Content editors and contributors
- Communications, media relations and marketing specialists
- Information technology and systems staff
- Web designers and programmers
- Departmental accessibility liaisons
- Student assistants with designated web responsibilities
- Personnel responsible for public-facing digital communications
Siteimprove Account Role Types
User
Allows team members to view reports, track issues and log corrections. Administrative settings remain restricted.
Read-only
Allows team members to view dashboards and metrics, but restricts logging changes or editing configurations.
Report Recipient
Allows users to receive scheduled email reports, without direct login access to the platform.
If you are unsure which tier to select, request the lowest level of access necessary to complete your duties. Access levels can be adjusted as departmental needs change. Learn more about Siteimprove user roles and permissions.
Siteimprove Access, Training and Support
Get connected to the platform or find help using its tools.
Request Siteimprove Access
UCF faculty and staff who manage official university websites can request the access level appropriate for their responsibilities.
Support and Training
Contact the Digital Accessibility Lab for access setup, personalized training or general help using Siteimprove AI. Alternatively, browse the self-help guides.
Getting Started After You Receive Access
Step 1: Log in and inspect your assigned website’s dashboard overview.
Step 2: Navigate to the Accessibility category to identify automated alerts.
Step 3: Prioritize high-severity issues affecting global navigation menus, shared headers, contact forms and critical landing pages.
Step 4: Review corresponding PDF document audits for tagged reading order and accessible images.
Step 5: Resolve errors directly within your local content management system (CMS).
Step 6: Recheck updated pages in Siteimprove once changes are published.
Step 7: Reach out to the Digital Accessibility Lab if you need guidance establishing a prioritization strategy.
Small, steady improvements matter. You do not need to resolve every issue immediately. Focus first on barriers affecting primary navigation, common page templates, required services, or heavily visited public directories.