Crownpeak Digital Accessibility and Quality vs. WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

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.

This is pretty middle of the road. It does a good job of picking out some of the low-hanging fruit, but it's not going properly evaluate semantic structure and will pop several false positives. Additionally, the tools are incomplete. For instance, the contrast editor will allow you to test your colors with sliders so you can get the closest color that passes; however, that isn't how color palettes work, you generally don't get to change a companies palette without a lot of pain; furthermore, there is no ability to adjust the font-size and both font-size AND color are used to determine contrast requirements. Oh, and they use points VS pixels...nobody is using points on the web even if the ADA uses them in their fairly dated guidelines. Text from the actual contrast editor "Text is present that has a contrast ratio less than 4.5:1, or large text (larger than 18 point or 14 point bold) has a contrast ratio less than 3:1.". 14pt = 18.66 pixels, so I can see their logic even if I don't agree with it

• 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.

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• Creates a great visual display of where the error is located, both in HTML source and page view.
• An excellent option in the contrast checker is to select the color slider to locate a color that will pass accessible.
• Clearly displays the alt text of images to check that it makes sense and is accurate
• Great at indicating if an error is visually hidden but in the code.
• Clean, organized, easy-to-understand details report

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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.

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• Help provide you to resources to fix your website
• Have the website look a little more detailed, it is very plain
• Have people that work to help you make changes to your website

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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

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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

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.

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.

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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

The other tools would be a little better than WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. They do require you to pay for their services but offer more support on a daily basis so I would say it would be worth the money. However, I could not go ahead with the websites because they don't work with websites created on GoDaddy Managed Websites and I had to go with WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool.

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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

• Boosted accessibility on pages and page content across our websites
• Allowed us to easily audit content hosted by others
• Given us a method of requiring partners/vendors to meet basic accessibility standards.

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