Accessibility
Continuous WCAG 2.1 AA scans across every departmental site, mapped to ADA and Section 504 requirements.
For higher education
Grow enrollment and meet every compliance deadline
Your prospective students, current students, faculty, and alumni all rely on the same website to work. Siteimprove helps higher education teams grow enrollment, prove program performance, and meet WCAG, ADA, and Section 504 requirements, all from one platform.
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PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
One platform for compliance, growth, and trust
Accessibility, search, analytics, and content strategy in one interface so marketing, digital, and compliance teams work from the same view.
Search
Track program keywords, watch competitors, and protect the traffic that turns into applications.
Analytics
Show what actually drives engagement.
Content strategy
Understand the path to topical authority, ensuring your expert content and faculty research is cited in Search and by LLMs when it matters most.
Automation and expert insight together drives accessibility excellence
Higher ed's digital footprint runs deep: course catalogs, PDFs, LMS content, and department sites published by hundreds of contributors across campus. That scale is exactly where one-time reviews break down. Siteimprove's automation continuously scans your entire site, catching issues the moment new content goes live, no matter which department published it.
Certified specialists then go deeper, testing with the same assistive technology your students and faculty actually rely on, covering the nuance automation alone can't catch. Together, you get a defensible, continuously updated view of your accessibility posture, so you can meet your Title II and Section 504 obligations while making sure every student, faculty member, and visitor can fully access what your institution offers online.
Why choose Siteimprove
Built for decentralized higher ed digital teams
Compliance & digital governance
Universities answer for accessibility and accuracy across thousands of pages and microsites. Siteimprove.ai flags issues, broken links, and policy gaps before they turn into OCR complaints or audit findings.
Tracking the student journey
Enrollment journeys are long and rarely a straight line. Siteimprove.ai Analytics shows which program pages, application flows, and content actually move prospects forward, so you can focus on what moves enrollment.
Engagement without fragile tracking
Privacy rules keep tightening. Our Visitor Engagement Score measures behavior quality using signals that respect privacy and reflect real events, not cookies from other sites.
Accessibility, inclusion, and the student experience
Accessibility says something about who your institution serves. Siteimprove.ai pairs automated scans with expert manual testing, monitoring WCAG conformance and helping you track progress toward ADA Title II or Title III and Section 504 requirements across departments and microsites.
Campaign and channel performance
Stop optimizing for clicks alone. Siteimprove.ai ties SEO, paid, and on-site engagement together, so you can prove impact on applications and enrolled students, and report it to leadership and deans.
AI readiness and AEO visibility
Remediate old, stagnant content while at the same time creating new content moving forward both designed to be consumed by LLMs, driving citation performance and overall AI visibility.
Support for industry leaders
Leading institutions use Siteimprove to grow enrollment and meet commitments.
"At the University of Ottawa, we see digital accessibility as a continuous responsibility to remove barriers and ensure equitable access to information and services for all. It is fundamental to enabling full participation in our community and beyond. With Siteimprove's agentic content intelligence platform and as part of its AI (beta) program, we have transformed hours of analysis into actionable insights in minutes, helping us optimize our websites and ensuring that content is accessible, inclusive, and performs for SEO and AEO in today's search landscape."
Nathalie BlanchardDigital Marketing Manager
Hear the University of Ottawa story
"Digital accessibility is foundational to the future of education, and inclusive technology is essential to learning. At Harvard, our goal is to ensure the teaching and research mission of the university is available to everyone. This work is only possible because of our immensely talented Digital Accessibility Services team, many colleagues across the university's schools, and the strong support from university leadership. When we embed accessibility into our digital environments, we build a culture where everyone can fully participate."
Kyle ShachmutSr. Director, Digital Accessibility Services
Hear the Harvard University story
"We knew we needed to have some checks and balances and Siteimprove helped us flag things that needed to be corrected."
Tera BuckleyDirector of Web & Multimedia Marketing
Read the University of North Dakota's storyNEWS & CONTENT
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Benchmark your website against peer institutions
Discover how colleges and universities stack up across key digital performance metrics. Compare accessibility, search visibility, content quality, and overall website health to understand where your institution excels and where improvements can make the biggest impact.
Guide
The complete guide to PDF accessibility
This guide explains what the law requires, what the most common failures look like, and how to build a program that doesn't require a redo in 18 months.
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Request a demoSiteimprove.ai gives you SEO and AEO tools to find the keywords that matter most for your programs, then tracks how search performance feeds your enrollment marketing in a crowded, competitive market.
Siteimprove.ai supports conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA and helps you track progress toward ADA Title II (public institutions), Title III (private institutions), and Section 504 requirements, so your digital content works for every visitor.
Siteimprove.ai finds content that should be retired, like old curricula, former faculty bios, and outdated tuition details, so your site stays accurate as programs and staff change.
Yes, on both counts. Siteimprove.ai identifies outdated PDFs across your site, so you can retire old catalogs, past syllabi, and expired forms before they hurt your accessibility standing or search performance. For PDFs you need to keep, our software can remediate common accessibility issues directly, like missing tags and reading order problems, and our professional services team handles more complex PDF remediation work that needs expert hands, so nothing sits in a queue waiting on developer time.
Siteimprove.ai flags accessibility and QA issues, then links you straight into your existing CMS so your team can fix them without switching tools. That includes guidance on how to fix each issue, prioritization by severity and page traffic so you tackle what matters most first, and PDF remediation support, whether that means automated fixes for common issues or professional services for complex documents, all in one connected workflow instead of two separate tools.