Accessibility Reviews

All accessibility reviews at Georgetown require that you first verify the site’s accessibility through both automated and manual testing.

Steps for requesting a UIS accessibility review:

  1. Take the accessibility training courses. (optional but recommended)
  2. Automated testing: You will need to address all A and AA errors and warnings identified by Siteimprove. When your site is ready, you can submit the request form to add a site to Siteimprove . If your website is password protected you will need to check the accessibility of individual pages using the Siteimprove chrome plugin.
  3. Manual Testing: You will need to complete the manual accessibility testing checklist . You can use the manual testing guide to help you understand how to catch the errors that automated testing misses.
  4. If you’re not sure how to manually test your site for issues, you should contract with Siteimprove or another reputable accessibility tester to perform testing for you and produce a report (note that there will be a cost for this).
  5. If your automated and manual testing reports are positive (i.e. no A or AA issues found), request an accessibility review from UIS . These typically will take about a week.
  6. If there are errors in either report, you’ll need to fix them yourself or hire someone to make the fixes for you. You can provide a justification for why it’s impossible to fix certain issues when you request an accessibility review from UIS . If the final report includes justifications, please allow up to 3 weeks before your intended launch date to give us enough time to review your justifications, and give you enough time to make additional fixes if need be.
  7. Web Services will review your report and do cursory testing. If Web Services finds errors, you’ll be required to fix outstanding errors.
  8. When the AA requirement is satisfied, your website can launch or software can be purchased.