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What does “A11y” mean?
“A11y” is a a numeronym, with 11 representing the count of letters between the letter a “a” and the letter y“y. A11Y ” A11y is used interchangeably to reference digital accessibility.
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Log into Siteimprove.
Click on the Site drop-down button to display a list of Sites that you have access to. Select Select your Site (in the example below we selected “NMSU Branding - brand.nmsu.edu”).
Click on the drop-down button next to DCI Score dashboard to change the dashboard view.
Using the search tab, enter “A11y” to find the “New Mexico State University A11y Dashboard.” Select the dashboard.
The dashboard includes an overview of NMSU’s web accessibility goal as well as other details regarding your sites site's accessibility score, crawl details, issues, guidelines and an overview of how to prioritize issues.
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Crawl details - The first widget you will see is labeled “crawl details.” This widget provides you with the date your last crawl was completed and when your next crawl is scheduled for. You can also initiate a re-crawl of your site.
Accessibility Overview - The accessibility overview provides your site’s accessibility score and the details that make up your sites site's accessibility score. The accessibility score in the gauge is an overall score of your site based on the WCAG 2.1 success criteria. Our goal is to reach 100% of the Level A and AA criteria.
Progress Over Time - Provides a line graph of the progress you have made over time. You can choose to filter the data in this chart by accessibility issues or occurrences, select a custom time frame or export the data to a CSV file.
Issues - The issues table provides a list of all issues found on your site. Only Level A and AA conformance issues are reported. The table includes conformance level, difficulty, responsibility, the element type, occurrences per page and how many points you can gain if the issue is remediated.
Pages with issues - The pages with issues table provides a list of all of the pages on your site that include issues. The table includes the number of issues and occurrences of that issue on each page.
Documents found on website - The documents found on website table includes an inventory of all of the documents found on your site. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents will be included in this list. Siteimprove does not scan for accessibility conformance within Microsoft documents, however it should be noted that all documents posted on your site must be accessible.
Guidelines - A list of all of the issues found on your site organized by WCAG guidelines and success criteria.
Issue Prioritization - Provides an overview of tips to b help you prioritize remediation on your site and as well as provide an overview on how to include your Accessibility score.
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You can email a dashboard report or schedule it to be sent regularly to your team members, management or external agency. With a choice of frequency, delivery time, and time zone, you can make sure all your recipients get the reports when it’s most convenient. You can also export your report as a pdf PDF file and HTML.
📘 Send a Dashboard Report
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Click on the Reports dropdown at the top of the dashboard.
Select Schedule Report.
Click Add Recipients.
You will be presented with three options: Defining a rule, Selecting individuals, and Adding external users.
Defining a Rule - The rules section lets you select criteria to decide the users to receive reports. Criteria sets include user role, users with group access, tag, etc.
Selecting Individuals - In the specific user section, you can select recipients from a list of users in NMSU’s Siteimprove account. You can filter on site and group access for the selected schedule, user roles, tags, or search for a specific user.
Adding External Users - The externals external users section provides a text field where you can copy/paste email addresses of recipients.
After you have added recipients, click Save changes.
Configure the rest of the report including report frequency and including a message if required.
You can preview the report and email message using the Preview Report and Preview Email buttons.
Click on Schedule Report.
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