A fully centralized standards enforcement model where one web team owns every page, every edit, every publish protects brand and quality, but it doesn't scale. As one analysis of university website governance puts it, a purely centralized model...
After a long day of reading reports, meeting with stakeholders, and returning numerous emails and phone calls, you come home, grab your tablet, and go to your favorite sushi restaurant's website to order dinner. <sigh> You scroll down the...
This is the final post of a four-part series on web governance. A strategy fueled by people, process, and technology. See part three titled Process: A Lifecycle for Sustainable Web Governance. Technology transforms web governance from a...
This is part three of a four-part series on web governance. A strategy fueled by people, process, and technology. See part two titled People: The Foundation of Web Governance. See part four titled Technology: Powering Effective Web...
This is part two of a four-part series on web governance. A strategy fueled by people, process, and technology. See part one titled Web Governance: Building Structure for a Sustainable User Experience. See part three...
This post kicks off a four-part series on web governance. A strategy fueled by people, process, and technology. See part two titled People: The Foundation of Web Governance. Your website is one of the most visible representations of your...
At the recent Virginia Higher Education Accessibility Partners (VHEAP) conference in May, our sales executive, Luke Bachelor, had an interesting conversation with one of the attendees. They described a challenge that many...
While researching another project, I noticed a recurring accessibility theme across several sources, often centered on the same ideas, such as budget and resources, accessibility as a business function, internal accountability is essential, and...
Higher education and private agency web teams may use some of the same digital tools, but the operational workflows they rely on are fundamentally different. Agencies are often built for speed with fast-moving client timelines, campaigns, and...
Too often, people view accessibility as a one-time initiative. In reality, accessibility is a system, and like any system, it needs structure, rules, and oversight. That’s where a strategy, a policy, and continuous monitoring come in....
If you haven’t heard yet, the DOJ will be extending the ADA Title II web accessibility deadline for public entities with a total population of 50,000 or more by one year, from April 24, 2026, to April 26, 2027. It also...
I recently came across a Slack conversation about a third-party vendor and their disregard for obvious accessibility issues, and the frustration it was causing their customer. It felt very familiar. Back when I managed a higher ed website, I...
Before the DubBot Sales Team headed to the Windy City for DrupalCon Chicago, I asked them to keep an ear out for insights that tend to surface when you’re talking face-to-face, in real time, with practitioners, partners, and...
Working alongside the new Image Inventory upgrade is the new References panel! References is a powerful way to understand how all the building blocks on your website connect. Image Inventory answers the question What do we...
That’s right! DubBot now inventories all your images with every Site crawl. And the best part? You don’t have to request access to Image Inventory. It’s turned on by default and ready to make you a rock star....
Conversations about accessibility testing often default to a familiar refrain: You can’t just automate, it has to be manual, too. That statement is true, but it’s frequently delivered with an undertone that sells...
Traditional website performance monitoring relies on manual checks and threshold-based alerts. Efficient but labor-intensive. AI promises more intelligent monitoring, faster alerts, and fewer late-night emergencies, changing how we think about...
As a blog writer focused on accessibility topics such as standards, laws, tools, best practices, and the latest trends and developments, I spend roughly 40 – 50% of my 40-hour week conducting research. That means reading reports and...
An effective web accessibility strategy doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a long-term framework that weaves accessibility into everything from leadership and company culture to ideation and design, coding and content creation, and...
New England Drupal Camp (also known as NEDcamp) celebrates its twenty-first birthday this November 14-15. DubBot is proud to be a sponsor, and I'm thrilled to be an attendee. NEDcamp is held at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island and...
Drupal is a powerful, enterprise-grade CMS. It’s flexible, scalable, and trusted by organizations with big, complex digital footprints. Managing all that content and complexity can be a significant challenge. DubBot simplifies things for...
I recently attended Digital Colloquium's Accessibility Summit—hands down one of my favorite events of the year. Niki Ramesh delivered this year's keynote, Using AI to Improve User Experience, which was both timely and...
DubBot is proud to once again be a Platinum Sponsor of the Digital Collegium 2025 Annual Conference, where higher ed professionals come together to share insights, sharpen skills, and build the connections that drive your industry forward....
You know what’s cool? It’s when our clients share an idea for something they'd like to see in the app, and then it becomes a new product feature. You can now view issue category counts just like you can view issue category...
Welcome to DubBot! We're excited to help you get up and running! Just because our software is self-service doesn't mean you’re on your own! Our Client Support Team works closely with you to get to know you and your team,...
Less than a year ago, a client contacted our support line with an unusual situation…users were "disappearing from the platform." Multiple inquiries had come from colleagues who had been set up in DuBot but had now disappeared and no...
Misspelled words damage credibility and erode trust — they also disrupt user flow and negatively impact search engine rankings. Maintaining proper spelling across your website is a strategic advantage. Leveraging DubBot’s...
Accessibility remediation work can be very detailed; a single issue can span hundreds of web pages. Effective task management is crucial for successful remediation projects and efficient workflows. Breaking a large project into small, manageable...
The DubBot app effectively identifies WCAG accessibility, broken links, and SEO issues. It provides a comprehensive initial assessment and a solid foundation for your remediation efforts. But sometimes, you may need to dig deeper. Websites can be...
With the recent update to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards, state and local governments must ensure that their web content and mobile apps comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level A and AA success...
We love it when our clients bring us their ideas and are always excited to see how we can improve our products. Based on that client feedback, account administrators can now use the new policy category "Informational Search (Unscored)"...
Feedback mechanisms are essential for collecting and sharing constructive input, evaluations, or suggestions for improvement. They can be as simple as a quick chat or as formal as a survey or review and are instrumental in providing actionable...
Web governance aims to ensure that content meets the brand, quality, and accessibility requirements defined by your organization. According to Georgy Cohen, Director of Digital Strategy at OHO Interactive (a valued DubBot partner!), it’s...
As a proud supporter since 2018, DubBot is thrilled to continue our sponsorship with HighEdWeb. This year, DubBot is a Platinum Sponsor and Accessibility Partner for the HighEdWeb Annual Conference. Join us in person (or virtually) for the Annual...
DubBot is proud to be a sponsor for #EvolveDrupal NYC! This outstanding event is hosted by our partner and friends at Evolving Web. DubBot’s VP of Client Services, Penny Kronz, will deliver her presentation titled...
Content marketers churn out a lot of content, striving to balance originality and brand consistency while adhering to the organization's style guide. Content creation has many moving parts, but Custom Policies can make that process easier. I took...
Another client-inspired feature update. Users with administrative rights will now see a new report added to their dashboard. The Ignored Issues Report. The Ignored Issues downloadable CSV shows the following information: Timestamp...
Task management is the process of planning, organizing, tracking, and reporting tasks through their life cycle. It can be done manually or with the help of a software tool like DubBot. Task management, in general, offers several advantages; tasks...
Guess who’s coming to town? That’s right! EvolveDrupal is heading to Atlanta! DubBot is proud to be a sponsor of this outstanding event hosted by our client and partner, Evolving Web. DubBot’s VP of Client...
The team at DubBot would like to take a moment to thank Mike Miles and the NEDSummit and NEDCamp organizers for their hospitality and the opportunity for our own Penny Kronz to participate as the keynote speaker at the recent #NEDSummit. This...
By now, many of you have heard that WCAG Success Criteria (SC) 4.1.1, Parsing (Level A) has been removed from WCAG 2.2. Even though 4.1.1 is no longer a rule per WCAG 2.2, DubBot has not removed that rule from our test bank. We have left the...
For web accessibility experts, decorative images are a familiar and often debated topic. The question that often arises is whether ALT text should be applied to decorative images. To answer this, we first need to define what...
I’m thrilled to announce that our own Penny Kronz will present as a keynote speaker at The New England Drupal Camp conference on November 17. Penny will share her expertise in Web Governance strategy...
DubBot’s clients have often provided inspiration for amazing product updates and feature additions. The ability to ignore issues by an element's HTML source is certainly proof of that. Imagine you have a webpage with an image of a dog...
Does your company have an Editorial or Writing Style Guide? Is it consistently applied across your site? Doing so can greatly increase the quality and usability of the content on your site. Why? Consider a user’s confusion if...
Are you ready? The HighEdWeb Accessibility Summit is right around the corner. It’s happening on Tuesday, July 25, to be exact. Have you registered yet? No? What are you waiting for? Register Now! Here at DubBot, we are especially...
DubBot is excited to announce the release of our Drupal module!! This release is a result of collaborative effort with our friends at Lullabot. Our Drupal module will empower DubBot subscribers to enhance their websites by integrating...
A few weeks ago, I was preparing for a webinar and reviewing a list of potential questions. One question, in particular, caught my attention: "Is it acceptable to release a product or website that is partially accessible?" As I began to formulate...
Calling All HigherEd! Web analytics isn’t just for page views anymore. Although Web analytics has been around for about 30 years, it wasn’t until 2004 that "Web analytics became more established as an essential tool for web...
There are many ways to prioritize the issues found during your last accessibility audit…matrices, formulas, comparisons...all kinds of methods. Your organization may already have a process in place. If not, this blog post is for you....
Have you heard? DubBot has launched its brand new policy library! What’s a policy library, you might ask. The DubBot policy library is a collection of pre-written policy checks that you can import to your site, strengthening...
What exactly does "uptime" mean in reference to your website? Uptime means the number of hours your website is operational and available to users. Uptime is generally measured as a percentage and calculated in monthly or yearly increments. The...
The Higher Education Web Professionals Association or HighEdWeb is an organization of people dedicated to the "future of digital in higher education." Their annual conference is "created by and for" higher education professionals across campus....
The University of West Florida utilizes a CMS to manage their website content which allows non-technical users to manage their own web content. While this is a great practice that allows UWF to output timely content, manually reviewing all content...
We all want that webpage we’ve been searching for to be viewable, usable, and interactive with lightning speed. But alas, that is not always the case. We have all had to "Let the Spinning Wheel spin," much to our displeasure and...
Some of you may have noticed a new report available to you in DubBot. That’s right, the Web Governance Report. We are really excited about this one! The Web Governance report will combine Custom Checks (soon to be called "Policies") and...
The war in Afghanistan has been officially declared over with approximately 116,700 people evacuated, according to the latest information from the White House. Among those evacuated are scholars, students, faculty, and higher education personnel...
In the constantly evolving digital environment, where the effective sharing of information is vital, selecting the correct format for presenting your content is essential. Two prominent contenders in this arena are HTML and PDF. It's essential to...
Happy June to all! We’re excited to be edging closer and closer to summer. We’re even more excited to share information about our new feature, sharable reports. We added sharable reports as an optional way to view and share...
Creating a business case for web accessibility can be difficult, especially when, as accessibility professionals, we just "get it!" We know why accessibility is important and that it should be baked into all of our information and communication...
DubBot automatically checks for website accessibility, SEO, and generally accepted website best practices. Although these checks are all beneficial as out-of-the-box functionality, one of the more powerful and flexible features in DubBot is the...
What Is an Overlay? According to Dictionary.com, an overlay is: noun something laid over something else; covering. a layer or decoration of something applied: an overlay of gold. Accessibility overlays are very similar ... they are laid...
'Persona' Defined A persona is defined as "a single representation of a cluster of target users who represent similar behaviors, goals and motivations." ~ © Nielsen Norman Group More simply put, personas are models, usually...
While priorities, resources, and timelines have shifted significantly over the past month, there is still a need to continue to iterate and improve website accessibility, user experience, and overall content availability. More now than ever,...
As most of us enter a workweek that does not look like ones we have previously encountered, most DubBot users I have been in contact with are currently grappling with balancing three priorities simultaneously. While they continue with previously...
With the amount of work that we all do in a day, it is no wonder that spell check and auto-correct are technology built into most tools that we use to communicate with each other. But often, spell checking is not enough. I know that when I am...
Alternative text is the textual alternative for media for people who have visual issues and utilize technology such as screen readers when browsing a website. Simply put: the alternative text is what supplements the media for someone who can not...
Working with DubBot, I know the amount of work our users put into convincing others to care about the quality and the accessibility of their websites. I know that you may sometimes feel like you are in a battle with an Empire of dark forces. It...
Happy Friday! DubBot was feeling a little festive this week, so Dubby broke out some fun bunny ears. With the approaching fun that egg hunts can bring, I thought it only appropriate to highlight our recent improvements to Custom Checks within...
Decentralizing your website content contribution often means more content and demand for priority from content creators. Creating a web governance strategy is key to delivering an effective website experience for web visitors. Web governance is...
Some of the first questions that we ask someone thinking about using DubBot are: How many pages does your website have? How many digital assets like PDFs and Word docs does it have? You may or may not be surprised to hear that most people...
Everyone loves a good autocorrect error. I mean, when is it not funny when cologne is changed to colon, or invite is changed to inflate, or "humidifier" is changed to "homicide." As amusing as it is, though, to make fun of some of the unintended...
In the "content is king" era of the web, many moving parts keep a website fresh and up to date. There’s the content machine: Marketing and communications professionals who write content and manage other contributors. There's the content...
