Widget: Cross Site Accessibility Issues

Summary

Use the Cross-Site Accessibility Issues widget to view, filter, and drill down into accessibility issues across multiple sites in a single dashboard view.

Applies To

• Platform: Siteimprove
• Feature: Dashboard (New Experience)
• Module: Accessibility

Overview

General information about the Q1 launch We want to make sure that you experience fast and reliable insights to accelerate your collaboration, team efficiency, and overall performance. This is the path towards a faster, more reliable, and more productive Siteimprove than ever. New Dashboard experience specifics With our Q1 2023 release, we have added a new dashboard widget that allows accessible issues to be viewed across sites. This new feature will help you to focus your attention where it matters most. When you enable this widget on your dashboard, you can see all the accessibility issues in a single view. You get an overview of the total number of issues across sites, and then you can filter the issues by site.

Prerequisites

• Access to the Siteimprove Dashboard
• Permissions to add widgets

The Accessibility widget

When the widget is enabled it looks like this:
Add the widget

The widget is available for all customers, just follow these steps to add it:

1. Go to the Dashboard and click “Add widget.” 
2. Find the cross-site widget called "Cross Site Accessibility Issues.”  
3. Add the widget to the dashboard.
4. Wait for the widget data to load.

Note that if the loading time is high you can apply filters while loading and reduce the loading time. 

Filter your view

When you would like to analyze cross-site issues, use filters to narrow down the number of issues across your sites.
Follow these filtering steps:

1. With the widget added and presented on your screen, click the dropdown menu “Sites.”
2. Select all the sites you would like to analyze together.
3. When sites are selected you can apply more filters by using the five additional dropdown menus in the bar.

Note that only sites with accessibility issues will be shown.

Use the drill-down to prioritize issues

When you would like to fix a particular issue, use the drill-down option on an issue to go to the site, and then to page level where an issue occurs that needs to be fixed. 

1. Under “Sites” to the very right in the top bar, expand an issue to see the sites where it occurs.
2. Do the same on a particular site, and then see on page level where the issue occurs. 

Download the data you have found

When you have filtered and drilled down as desired, you can download the data in a CSV file. 

1. Click the “CSV” button in any view.
2. A CSV file will be downloaded to your computer.