Governance

Always be the first to know what’s broken on your website (and how to fix it)

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Silktide governance tests your website for content, accessibility, user experience, and compliance issues. AI optimizer reads the results, identifies the patterns behind them, and turns the findings into a prioritized plan your team can act on.

Governance overview for Fablehurst University showing the explainer video card, Content, Accessibility, User Experience, and Compliance scores, tasks and open issues

See the pattern behind the numbers. Turn it into work your team can finish.

Turn website findings into work that makes a difference.

A list of issues is only the start. Your team needs to know which ones matter, what caused them, and how to fix them. Silktide connects automated testing with AI analysis, page-level evidence, and assigned tasks, helping you move from finding problems to making measurable improvements.

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  1. 1. Understand

    Test your pages and PDFs against your chosen standards on a schedule. See where your website falls short and which checks have the biggest effect on your scores.

    Silktide Governance checks list for Fablehurst University, grouped by urgency with WCAG references and issue counts

  2. 2. Improve

    Generate strategy reports that identify patterns and propose specific fixes. Review tasks with supporting evidence, priority, and effort, then assign the work to the people who can make the changes.

    Silktide Governance tasks list for Fablehurst University with status, priority and effort for each task

  3. 3. Measure

    Retest to verify fixes and track progress against your targets. The next strategy report explains what changed and where your team should focus next.

    Silktide tasks progress card showing 52 tasks to do for Fablehurst University

Bring your website standards together

Review content, accessibility, user experience, and compliance within one product. All four areas are integrated into one governance workflow, giving your team a shared place to understand website quality and manage improvements.

Silktide Costing you most card showing visible focus and text contrast as the checks taking the most points

Set requirements that reflect your organization

Tell Silktide where your website operates and what kind of organization runs it. Review the suggested compliance requirements, choose the standards you want to track, and add your own policies for content and brand consistency.

Silktide Policies screen scoring 97, Excellent, with responsibility and filter controls and a description of ad-hoc compliance checks

Four areas of website quality. One integrated workflow.

  • Content

    Keep website content accurate, consistent, and easier to find. The check catalog covers content quality, SEO, and AI readiness, from writing and search signals to access for AI crawlers. Use strategy reports to identify the changes that deserve attention.

  • Accessibility

    Find barriers across web pages and PDFs with a catalog of accessibility checks and reviews mapped to every WCAG 2.2 success criterion. Track all 86 WCAG 2.2 success criteria through machine checks, assisted reviews, and guided manual reviews. PDF testing covers 136 PDF/UA-1 conditions, including 87 checked automatically. Test against WCAG, ARIA, and accessibility best practices. Generate an accessibility statement from your findings, ready for your team to review and publish.

  • User experience

    Investigate website speed with the performance and mobile checks in the catalog. Star up to ten key pages per website for desktop and mobile speed testing and uptime checks every five minutes, with email and SMS alerts and a three-month incident calendar. Monitor user flows as well as individual pages to spot failures in important journeys.

  • Compliance

    Check your website against the requirements you choose, from accessibility regulations to privacy, security, and internal policies. Use suggestions based on your organization and jurisdictions to help define what to track, then monitor findings over time.

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Silktide Content overview for Fablehurst scoring 68, with the AI optimizer brief Applicants and students hit dead ends they cannot get past and a tasks list

Workflow Intelligence

Turn mountain-sized backlogs into bite-sized tasks.

Instead of presenting an overwhelming list of 4,000 separate issues, Silktide’s strategy engine analyzes your site's scoreboard to find the single template update or language setting that will resolve hundreds of flags at once.

Silktide task list in dark mode showing proposed tasks with priority, effort, assignee, and labels

Visual page testing in the Silktide Inspector

Examine issues directly on your live pages using the Inspector. Highlight errors in context, preview screen-reader output, inspect underlying DOM code, and retest your changes instantly.

Silktide Inspector open on a Fablehurst news article, with content checks and their priorities listed beside the page

Workspace oversight

One view of every page you’re accountable for. Scores, collections, and exceptions in one place.

Group sites and review decisions across the account so nothing sits in a forgotten corner of your digital presence.

Silktide accessibility strategy report for Fablehurst University headlined 'Six required documents can't be read without sight', score 69

AI optimizer

Silktide analyzes its own test results to explain the most important findings and recommend what to do about them. Each strategy report links its conclusions to the underlying checks and proposes tasks with priorities and effort estimates, ready for your team to review.

Find the shared cause behind repeated issues

A single template problem can create findings across hundreds of pages. AI looks for those connections and identifies fixes that could resolve many issues at once, helping your team understand the scope of the work before getting started.

Give every recommendation somewhere to go

Review proposed tasks with the steps, evidence, and report they came from. Assign and manage work in Silktide using lists, boards, statuses, and labels, or send accepted tasks to project management platforms like Jira or Linear.

Web tasks

Every finding becomes work someone owns. Priority, effort, and evidence already attached.

Accept a recommendation on Silktide’s board, or send it to a project management platform like Jira or Linear with the report still linked.

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Silktide Costing you most card listing visible focus, text contrast, mobile horizontal scrolling, PDF tagging, and interactive component distance, with a link to the full check list

See exactly what’s holding your score back

Each area highlights the checks costing you the most points. Open the scoring breakdown to see the criteria, weights, and individual checks behind the total, so your team can understand its priorities and explain progress to others.

Silktide custom check editor: status P1, text to find with one phrase per line, match type whole words, case sensitive toggle

Write your own checks in plain English

Describe the requirement you want to enforce, such as removing a retired product name or adding a review date to service pages. Silktide helps write the check and tests your draft against a live URL, so you can see what it catches before saving it.

Silktide Decisions screen with a proposed decision to approve Astronomancy as a Fablehurst degree name, with Accept and Decline buttons

Keep decisions visible and progress verified

Approve a finding that Silktide got wrong or ignore one you’re choosing not to act on. Review or undo exceptions from the account-wide Decisions screen. Mark completed work as fixed to clear it from your issue list; the score changes once a retest verifies the fix.

See governance in practice

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FAQs

What is Governance?

Governance is the part of Silktide that tests content, accessibility, user experience, and compliance. It combines scheduled testing and transparent scoring with AI strategy reports and task management to help teams understand findings, prioritize fixes, and track progress.

Which areas are included with Governance?

Content, Accessibility, User Experience, and Compliance are all included, with unlimited users and an interface available in 15 languages. Your team can manage these areas together and choose the standards and requirements relevant to your website.

How are AI strategy reports different from test results?

Test results identify individual findings. Strategy reports analyze those results, look for shared causes, and explain what your team should do next. Recommendations link back to supporting checks and become proposed tasks with priorities and effort estimates.

Can we use Governance without AI?

Yes. AI is optional, and an administrator controls which providers are enabled. With AI switched off, your team can still use website testing, scoring, and reporting.

Can we check our own content and brand policies?

Yes. You can create custom checks for your organization’s requirements. Describe a rule in plain English and use AI to help write it, then preview its results against a live URL before saving it.

How does Silktide verify that an issue is fixed?

You can mark an issue as fixed after making a change, which clears it from your issue list. Silktide updates the score once a retest verifies the fix. Later strategy reports review progress and explain what changed.

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Can we manage tasks in our existing tools?

Yes. Accepted tasks can be sent to Jira or Linear with links back to the findings that raised them. You can also manage the work directly in Silktide using lists, boards, custom statuses, and labels.

How is Governance different from Analytics and Presence?

Governance tests the website you control and helps your team improve it. Analytics measures visitor behavior and conversions on that website. Presence measures how your brand appears in AI answers and search. They are separate Silktide products that address different parts of your digital performance.

Turn your website standards into measurable progress

See how Silktide connects testing, AI analysis, and work your team can act on.

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