U-M Accessibility Scanning Service

Enterprise Web Accessibility at Michigan

What it is: The U-M Accessibility Scanning Service is a web-based scanning tool intended to help units and departments that have a large web presence make their offerings accessible.
What it is not for: The service is not for complex interactive web applications that depend on user input.
Who can use it: The service offers functionality to support managers in charge of sites, developers, and content editors in CMS environments. It also produces reports specifically for administrators at all levels of the organization.
How it works: The service makes use of Deque's axe Monitor technology to scan web systems and get a baseline report on the systems’ accessibility. The scans look for violations or possible violations of WCAG 2.1 AA, the U-M standard. The scanner provides functionality to manage the remediation process and scans can be scheduled at intervals so that you can measure progress.

Check to see if your site is being scanned. If so, your team should be the owner. See below for details.

	Intake ➔	Orientation ➔	Instruction ➔	Follow up
What we do	We will set up scans of production systems for you, give needed access to team members. If your site is being scanned currently, we will transfer ownership of the scan to your team.	We will provide your team with an orientation to the tool, tailored to the different roles represented in your team	We will also provide specific training on advanced role-specific topics. We will assist you to include functional testing to complement the scans.	We will contact you when we see you may be needing assistance and provide whatever help required.
What we ask of you	Fill our request form. We will need: a URL team member names uniqnames what organization the site belongs to	Propose a time and a place and review the documentation and the scan results beforehand.	Bring your specific needs to our attention. Your additional functional testing is critical to get a clear picture of the accessibility of your site.	We ask you to have a plan to address the issues found in your site and let us know what the plan is so that we can assist you.

Intake ➔

Orientation ➔

Instruction ➔

Follow up

What we do

We will set up scans of production systems for you, give needed access to team members.

If your site is being scanned currently, we will transfer ownership of the scan to your team.

We will provide your team with an orientation to the tool, tailored to the different roles represented in your team

We will also provide specific training on advanced role-specific topics.

We will assist you to include functional testing to complement the scans.

We will contact you when we see you may be needing assistance and provide whatever help required.

What we ask of you

We will need:

Propose a time and a place and review the documentation and the scan results beforehand.

Bring your specific needs to our attention.

Your additional functional testing is critical to get a clear picture of the accessibility of your site.

We ask you to have a plan to address the issues found in your site and let us know what the plan is so that we can assist you.

Decide what issues you will tackle first. Take a look at our prioritization document.

Document each step of the process so that we can repeat successes and avoid mistakes.

Keep your approach simple and iterative, small steps add up. What does success look like? Measurable progress.

To reach out to your peers in other units, join the deque-axe-monitor-users MCommunity group (how to join). Or reach out to us via our request form.