SiteImprove scores

SiteImprove is tool that we use to check our sites to help improve SEO, accessibility, and content quality.

The white circle dots are the "industry standard" scores that we aim to achieve if not exceed.

#Current Scores

The current scores are really good! As you can see from the Old Scores below - they used to be almost perfect - but these new scores reflect after having all the content loaded in. Lots of videos and audio files used on this site which are dropping our accessibility scores a little - but again they're still really good - exceeding the "industry standard".

Old Scores

Recurring Potential Issues

When SiteImprove does a full recheck - there are a couple things that commonly will appear in "potential issues" that bring down the score - where manual fixes resolve.

1. Is it clear which page element has focus from the keyboard?
   1. False positive - Flickity carousels tend to mess up the tool - but individual cards get focus
   2. False positive - Bootstrap buttons with box-shadow focus
2. Does the audio have a transcript?
   1. Triggered by all the audio embeds on this site - we need to try and make sure all audio file have transcript text nearby.
3. Is there a minimum contrast ratio between the text and background?
   1. False positive - Triggered by the pattern backgrounds and home header image background
4. Does video without audio have accessible alternative?
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5. Is there an alternative to the visual content in this video?
6. Does this video have captions?
   1. False positive - Triggered by video backgrounds, which have no sound
7. Is this video audio-described?