Case Study: University of Worcester improves accessibility and content performance with Silktide

Becoming a Top Performer With Silktide

The University of Worcester needed a better way to identify accessibility and content issues across a rapidly growing website, while also educating a wide range of non-technical staff and working with outsourced developers. Before using Silktide, the team relied on a patchwork of manual checks and limited tools, making it difficult to keep up with WCAG 2.1 requirements and mobile accessibility needs.

Silktide provided the University of Worcester with an automated accessibility and content testing platform that supported both machine scans and human testing, plus clear guidance that helped internal teams and external developers act on issues faster. With Silktide, the university improved its accessibility score from 63 to 88 and its content score from 47 to 83, reaching the top-performing UK university website for accessibility in the Silktide Index and saving significant time on manual checking.

University of Worcester

Jack Yuille

Digital Channels Manager