Crownpeak Digital Accessibility and Quality vs. Siteimprove

DQM deals with quality assurance across most areas of website content and customer experience; including content quality, brand updates, product detail and SEO effectiveness (including broken links, H-tags etc.). It does overlap with some of the other custom tools we already use in areas such as SEO quality and effectiveness. The advantage it gives however, is bringing all the factors listed above into a single tool and dashboard, making the process of highlighting, reporting and addressing all the website factors that affect customer experience and business effectiveness into a single space. DQM is also useful for isolating single business and Customer Experience (CX) issues for our clients using the 'custom checkpoint' tools. For example, our most recent custom usage has been in the management of diversity and inclusion language and terminology across a global web estate, to ensure consistency of language and approach across an ecosystem of websites managed by distributed teams.

Simple, easy-to-deploy accessibility that automatically scans, remediates and provides proof of compliance once the process is complete. It is ideal for people who want to make their website much more accessible and provide their users with an intuitive adjustable interface.

Incentivized

• DQM does a great job at identifying code that doesn't meet WCAG guidelines.
• DQM has nice reporting tools and it is easy to deliver the results to non-IT employees.
• The Page Checker tool is very helpful for real-time scanning. This makes it possible to make sure fixes work before the next main scan.

Incentivized

• User-friendly customisable dashboards, easy to make a dashboard from a template, or create your own, and add in whichever 'widgets' are relevant for what you are looking at
• Flagging words to review, allowing users to check and confirm if the word is 'accepted' or is a misspelling

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• It would be helpful if the Issues page under Website showed the WCAG level for each issue (A, AA, AAA). You currently have to look up the guideline to find the level.
• There is no indicator that a page is currently being scanned. During a website scan, some of the reports are blank or missing information. Having a notification on the main page showing which websites are being scanned would be helpful.
• Some ADA compliance items are left off, such as keyboard navigation, tabbing, etc.
• It doesn't view the websites on mobile devices or if using a screen reader. Some pages or formatting changes depending on resolution. The DQM, from what I have seen, doesn't account for that.

Incentivized

• I don't like that there are different navigation paths to go from point A to point B. When I want to navigate to a specific place, I have more than one way to get there, which means I have to make a decision about how I want to there and I'd rather the designer make that design based on what would be most efficient for me.

We've seen competitors, they're not doing as well of a job as dqm is. It's a wonderful tool and there a huge opportunities for crownpeak

Incentivized

It doesn't take a lot of training to get people up to speed with Crownpeak Digital Quality Management (DQM), meaning the time can be spent fixing issues rather than asking questions and muddling through! For any issues we have encountered, the support team [has] been really quick at responding and assisting us.

Incentivized

Tool has undergone numerous changes, both to function and UX/CX. Makes it less than user friendly at times. But on the other hand, that does indicate a willingness to improve the product in a continual manner - which they've done nearly year after year - but it's always a case of who moved my cheese with each new iteration.

Haven't had issues accessing the dashboard when needed.

No issues with speed and performance

DQM support teams are responsive and knowledgeable, and will spend time working directly with client and agency teams to ensure the best outcomes are achieved. I can't fault the level of input and engagement from Crownpeak support teams across the board.

I've used support often and it has been responsive, thorough and considerate of our needs. I can get a tech right away, they understand the issue, and work with us to resolve it. Often the problem is with the site we are trying to scan, sometimes it is with their product. I appreciate that they go beyond support into continually helping us implement SiteImprove in more places with 3rd party integration.

Product is straight-forward but the training was helpful and beneficial

The initial process is not clear but after the first cookie banner all others are faster to implement.

Incentivized

Having worked on hundreds of accessibility projects across many types and sizes of organizations, my recommendation is that Crownpeak DQM is the most effective automated accessibility testing tool for achieving the end goals of:

1. Getting teams to successfully complete their remediation
2. Understanding where an automated tool has limits and manual testing is required
3. Meeting the WCAG guidelines
4. Prioritizing issues that are the highest risk so it's clear what to address first
5. Considering an organization's existing brand and visual identity
6. Doesn't provide a false sense of security like other tools

Incentivized

Siteimprove provides richer features when it comes to how granular you can define policies and metrics for search engine optimization and content relevance. It is also much easier to set up and maintain the sites that you want to administer. However, pricing wise is more costly which can be a constraint for smaller organizations.

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haven't had issues accessing when needed.

• Page rankings improved, though this was one of many tactics aimed at improving that measure.
• Ability to add in fixes into existing change management processes by provided structured error reporting.
• Dashboards relevant to different teams so errors could be prioritized differently.

Incentivized

• Siteimprove has helped bring our accessibility scores up from middling to near-perfect.
• Siteimprove has helped reduce our broken links, style violations and misspellings.
• Siteimprove's heatmaps have helped us make the case for enforcing best practices on the website among key stakeholders.

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