Will there be a required threshold that maintainers will be encouraged to meet and/or maintain related to their specific sites and pages? 

We will be looking at setting an office-level accessibility percentage benchmark every 6 months. During that six month window, you will work towards and maintain that benchmark. We will communicate that benchmark shortly and then set a schedule.

Will maintainers be assigned specific “areas” to check and report on based on a scheduled deadline?

Whatever your current assigned page maintenance assignment will determine what pages you are responsible for accessibility. If a web maintainer is unsure of which pages they are assigned, contact their office area web point person.

What level will the maintainer fall under related to access and ability to access and make corrections? (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert)

The current content you update is the same content you have the ability make corrections. ITSD is responsible for maintaining the template content (header, footer, sidebar)

Based on the assigned level, will maintainers be able to make changes/corrections to spelling, readability, broken links, etc.?

The current content you update is the same content you have the ability make corrections. ITSD is responsible for maintaining the template content (header, footer, sidebar)

Can maintainers access and take advantage of the Academy? (e-learning courses) 

Siteimprove users have access to:

• Accessibility Fundamentals for the Web
• Analytics Fundamentals for the Web
• Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
• SEO Fundamentals
• Siteimprove Accessibility: Next Generation

There may be a few staff who have access to a few extra courses.

Will there be one main dashboard designed specifically for maintainers to use?

Each maintainer will be assigned to an office-level dashboard.

Hierarchy? Webmaster (IT/OA); Developer (Manager); Edit (Maintainer) 

Within Siteimprove, basically everyone has a User role, with the exception of  Communications who has the ability to add other users.

Will there be a feature built into Siteimprove that can be set up based on our DESE Style Guide that will allow us to check for issues related to font size, spacing, paragraphs, etc.?

• Style guide information will be relevant to DESE Webpages EXCEPT font size and paragraph spacing due to the fact that the site stylesheet controls this. Normally, when you copy and paste content into Drupal, it will not attempt to paste any font or sizing information.
• All posted downloadable documents should fully follow DESE Style Guide

Does DESE’s current color guidelines for creating webpages/PowerPoint presentations meet visual disability guidelines?

Yes, DESE’s webpage templates follow color contract accessibility guidelines. It will be up to content editors to ensure that any uploaded documents or graphics/graphical charts follow color contrast guidelines.

For a recommended tool to check color contrast, I recommend Colour Contrast Analyser.

The official DESE PowerPoint template does pass color contrast guidelines. For assistance in creating accessible PowerPoint content, use the PowerPoint accessibility checklist

 

When you hover over an accessibility circular target chart, what does Target score mean? 

For example, let's say your current score is  and the target score is 73% and your target score is 93.3%. We have set our site target to WCAG A/AA. If we fix ALL A/AA errors, our score will be 93.3%. If we included AAA, ARIA and best practices errors and fixed all those, our score would be 100%. 

NOTE: Siteimprove is planning to change this feature where your 100% target can be set according to the guidelines you are following or by law you need to follow.