Find us at booth 419
We’ll be exhibiting at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference 2022 from 14-18th March.
We’d be thrilled to see you at booth 419 where we can talk you through our automated accessibility testing platform and answer any questions you may have.
Live demonstration Thursday, March 17, 2022
Join our CEO, Oliver Emberton, for a live demonstration of Silktide’s web accessibility testing capabilities.
- Thursday, March 17, 2022
- 12:00pm
- Grand Ballroom EF
We’ve tested millions of web pages, helping thousands of users make their websites more accessible
Large, complicated website? Silktide is a powerful software platform that helps large organizations improve accessibility, by helping your team understand the complex subject of WCAG and the ADA.
Video Transcript
Silktide helps you understand and improve your websites.
But what does that actually mean?
Let’s start by looking at how website teams function.
Option one: These folks create content for the website, and the developers maintain it all. As your company grows, so does the amount of content. You can see how the developers could become overwhelmed, because they’re dealing with all the issues of accessibility, usability and even the content itself. So let’s remove the bottleneck.
Option two: Now those content creators have direct access to the website, and you’re thinking… This was a mistake. So the website is going to have problems either way, and until the complaints start rolling in… how would you even know where to begin?
Silktide provides a single source of truth for problems ranging from spelling and grammar mistakes to accessibility issues. Whether you need a bird’s eye view of your entire web estate, or you want to dive into a site and get down to the nitty gritty of a single page’s issues, Silktide has you covered. No matter the size of your website.
Silktide’s inspector shows you exactly where your website’s problems are, whether it’s right out in the open, hidden in the code, or even on mobile, so you can get serious about accessibility.
Every issue comes with information on why it matters to your website visitors, and simple guidance on how to fix it. You can even highlight parts of the page yourself and assign tasks to your teammates. Integrate your CMS with Silktide, and you can fix these issues on the fly.
And don’t forget, we’re talking about improving your content, accessibility, marketing, user experience, and more.
We know there’s a lot to keep track of, but with Silktide, you no longer need to be an expert in everything.
How effective is automated web accessibility testing?
Let’s start by getting the elephant in the room out of the way. Automated accessibility testing alone will not make your website 100% accessible.
Always combine automated testing with manual auditing. The reason for this is that some WCAG criteria are ambiguous.
For example, automated accessibility tests can tell you if alternative text exists, but what they can’t do is understand the context.
If you display an image of a banana, but your alt text says, “apple”, a computer cannot determine its context and therefore, whether it passes or fails.
That said, a good platform will show you a list of all your alt text and allow you to manually review them quickly.
What automated accessibility testing can do for you is find a broad range of issues quickly, across many thousands of web pages.
It’s scalable, saves you time and money, and helps you find obvious accessibility issues before your users do.
Automated testing allows for consistency, makes your team more efficient, and allows you to report on progress towards your accessibility goals.
Interesting in reading more? Our article “How do I know when my website is accessible” gives further guidance.
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