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Read weekly news round ups, tips for our clients on using Sitemorse as well as articles on improving accessibility and digital compliance.
Our Support Lead, Helen Grimbly takes us through the diagnostic 'Unable to verify the first certificate' within a Sitemorse report.
Our Support Lead, Helen Grimbly takes us through why the number of pages can impact the score a Sitemorse assessment is given.
The value which automation brings not only to teams, but also budgets can sometimes get lost. Sitemorse’s unique automation not only saves you time and money, but focuses your ‘Digital First’ approach, exponentially improving your service to your audience.
Over the last five years, compliance spend and litigation have continued to rise, but with no discernible improvement in website accessibility compliance. Too often, compliance is considered to be purely a problem for web or IT teams, and the lack of ownership and oversight at executive level means that there is a lack of accountability – as a consequence, the compliance position shows no improvement.
With the increasing use of the internet and digital technologies, it is crucial that website owners and operators understand their responsibilities and take the necessary steps to comply with regulations.
The New York State Senate Bill S7572A will have significant implications for contractors and vendors who work with the state, as well as for the state itself, the bill which became law on December 2, 2022 and will take effect on May 31, 2023.
The considerable expansion and increased reliance of being online presents significant challenges for organizations already struggling with digital issues such as security and online governance, with a lack of corporate executive oversight at the heart of the issue. Enter in digital sprawl, and the problem is only exasperated and one issue making the challenge harder is website accessibility.
In this piece, we discuss how to download the accessibility results from a Sitemorse report.
In this piece, we discuss brotli and how Sitemorse supports it.
In this update, we explore how Sitemorse can provide a report which details a list of all pages on a website.
The Sitemorse INDEX has a new leader, Hastings Borough Council, who have reached the top spot with an overall score of 9.6/10.
The Sitemorse INDEX has moved over to our new engine, Sitemorse II. We're hosting a webinar to let our clients know how this will impact them and more about what the INDEX is.
How Sitemorse II lets you find dynamic content by showing you the location of content that as been loaded when the browser loads
We've answered a few of the most interesting questions we've been asked about the Sitemorse service.
Maps are often used on a website to provide visual information on a location.
Implementing a new CMS often has many benefits for organisations such as improved usability, extended functionality and reduced costs however, a CMS can’t do everything, including creating accessible websites on its own.
We take a look at recent news stories around the topics of accessibility, digital inclusion and ADA litigation from July.
Embedding YouTube content into your web page is very easy and convenient. However they introduce performance and accessibility issues - especially when embedding multiple videos on the same page. Here is one solution we have found.
We take a look at recent news stories around the topics of accessibility, digital inclusion and ADA litigation from June.
In this Developer Corner, we're looking at two WCAG Success Criterion and how they are reported by Sitemorse.
We take a look at recent news stories around the topics of accessibility, digital inclusion and ADA litigation from May.
How to determine why your Sitemorse INDEX score has changed.
Mike Carter is hosting a Pragmatic PDF webinar Tuesday 21st June 2022, at 15:30 BST, covering the issues organisations face when trying to improve the accessibility of their PDFs, and much more.
In celebration of GAAD this year, we've brought back our One-million page giveaway!
Sitemorse II (beta engine) reports now have an additional option on the Accessibility Category page called 'View all axe diagnostics'. This link displays all of the deterministic diagnostics (i.e. those which indicate a definite problem to address) generated by the "axe" accessibility engine.
We take a look at recent news stories around the topics of accessibility, digital inclusion and ADA litigation from April.
We're hosting an INDEX webinar on Tuesday 10th May 2022, at 15:30 BST, covering what to focus on, why it’s important and how to start making changes that will benefit your organisations compliance.
We take a look at recent news stories around the topics of accessibility, digital inclusion and ADA litigation from March.
Sitemorse are pleased to announce that the deterministic axe rules are now included within our automated accessibility assessments, allowing our clients to look at the conformance beyond the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
With so many people within an organisation contributing to the overall content of a website, we explore how that impacts digital inclusion.
Are UK Investment Management and Banking firms inclusive to users living with disabilities? We've looked at 80 websites to see their level of accessibility compliance.
National law firm, Wilson Elser, will present a webinar on “ADA Compliance for Websites: Risk Mitigation & Defense Strategies”, hosted by Adam Bialek, Kara Thorvaldsen and Lawrence Shaw.
We take a look at recent news stories around the topics of accessibility, digital inclusion and ADA litigation.
Are Private Equity firms inclusive to users living with disabilities? We've looked at 64 websites to see their level of accessibility compliance.
Are UK Chartered Institutions inclusive to users living with disabilities? We've looked at 113 websites to see their level of accessibility compliance.
Sitemorse informs the client if one of their domains is nearing expiry.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
At Sitemorse we published our 2021 Q4 London Listed PLCs INDEX this week that ranks companies according to their digital compliance score, which is based on a combination of online performance measures including adherence to accessibility standards, privacy regulation and level of content failure
At Sitemorse we published our 2021 Q4 Government and Public Bodies INDEX this week to see what progress these organisations are making in ensuring their websites are accessible to people with disabilities
At Sitemorse we published our 2021 Q4 UK Local Government INDEX this week to see what progress these organisations are making in ensuring their websites are accessible to people with disabilities
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.
We take a look at this week's discussions on the topic of accessibility.