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What's new
Introducing Silktide 5
Presence
Governance
Analytics
AI in Silktide 5
Silktide, wherever you work
Coming from Silktide 4
How scoring changed in Silktide 5
New navigation
New settings and controls
Keyboard shortcuts
Governance
Content
Pages
PDFs
Languages
Screens
Readability screen
Accessibility
Pages
PDFs
Standards coverage
Manual audits
Screens
Guidelines screen
Accessibility statement screen
User Experience
Pages
Search ads
Screens
Speed screen
Search ranking screen
Compliance
Pages
PDFs
Screens
Library policies screen
Uptime
Collections
Inventory
Pages
PDFs
Understanding inventory coverage
Screens
Documents screen
User flows screen
Runs screen
Unviewed pages screen
Untested pages screen
Failed downloads screen
Links screen
Cookies screen
Phone numbers screen
Emails screen
Forms screen
Languages screen
Technologies screen
Search screen
Custom checks
Inspector
Pages, issues, and evidence
Following links in the Inspector
Page maps in the Inspector
Ask AI in the Inspector
Decisions and tasks
Mark an issue as fixed
Keyboard and screen readers
Crawling
How Silktide crawls
Discovery
Scope rules
Where Silktide connects from
Loading a page
Rate limiting and retries
When crawling fails
Checks
3rd-party code
3rd-party facades
404 page
Accessibility overlay
Accessible login
Accessible login (no exception)
Accesskey attribute
Adjacent links
Adobe Flash
AI artifacts
AI clichés
AI crawler access
AI crawler blocking
AI grammar
AI schema signals
Alternative text for live audio
Amount of content
Analytics
Animation from interactions
Applet or plugin focus
Appropriate alt text
Appropriate headings and labels
Appropriate page title
Avoid labels on non-labelable controls
Background audio
Broken links
Broken user flows
Canonical URL
Canonical vs noindex
Captions for live audio
Captions for prerecorded audio / video
Cell headers
Character key shortcuts
Clear focus
Concurrent input
Conflicting ARIA role
Consistent help
Consistent identification
Consistent navigation
Content dates
Content on hover or focus
Content policy
Content Security Policy
Content without JavaScript
Context-sensitive help
Cookie policy
Cookies
CSS minification
Custom JavaScript
Data transfer
Decorative images
Deferred off-screen images
Definitions of unusual words
Delayed meta refresh
Deprecated ARIA attribute
Descriptions for pre-recorded media
Descriptions or text alternatives for prerecorded media
Designed for mobile
Dialog labels
Document write
Drag and drop alternative
Duplicate alt text
Duplicate IDs
Duplicate JavaScript
Duplicate website addresses
Easy to understand content
Efficient caching
Email privacy
Empty links
Empty pages
Enhanced privacy
Error identification
Error prevention mechanism (AA)
Error prevention mechanism (AAA)
Excessive DOM size
Explain opening new tabs
Explicit image sizes
Extended descriptions for pre-recorded media
Favicon
Favicons
Favicons
Field labels
Fieldset grouping
Fieldset legends
File extensions for pages
Flashing content (A)
Flashing content (AAA)
Focus not obscured
Focus not partly obscured
Focus order
Form control contrast
Form instructions
Form submit button
Forms privacy
Frame title
Frame titles
Grammar
Heading text
Headings
High text contrast
Host privacy
HTTP/2
Icon-only control
Identical table summary and caption
Identifiable abbreviations
Identify purpose
Image button alt text
Image compression
Image dimensions
Image in link alt text
Image optimisation
Images of text
Interactive component distance
Invalid ARIA attribute value
Invalid ARIA role
Invalid language for page
Invalid language for part of page
JavaScript errors
JavaScript execution time
JavaScript logs
Keyboard (no exception)
Keyboard support
Label in name
Landing page redirects
Large enough controls
Layout shifts
Legacy JavaScript
Link contrast
Link purpose
Link purpose (link only)
Links with different destinations
llms.txt
Location
Long main-thread tasks
Long page titles
Long URLs
Meaningful sequence (HTML)
Meta descriptions
Meta descriptions too long
Minified JavaScript
Missing alt text
Missing anchor
Missing ARIA child role
Missing ARIA description IDs
Missing ARIA label IDs
Missing ARIA parent role
Missing aria-activedescendant ID
Missing aria-controls ID
Missing aria-details ID
Missing aria-errormessage ID
Missing aria-flowto ID
Missing aria-owns ID
Missing CSS files
Missing font files
Missing from Sitemap
Missing H1
Missing images
Missing JavaScript files
Missing page titles
Missing required ARIA attribute
Missing title
Missing video files
Mixed content
Mobile horizontal scrolling
Mobile zoom and scrolling
Modal focus trap
Modern image formats
More than one Heading 1
Motion actuation
Multiple ways to access a page
Nested aria-hidden
Network requests
Not timing dependent
Obsolete scope attribute
On focus
Orientation lock
Page interruptions
Page language
Page nofollow
Page set to noindex
Passive event listeners
PDF bookmarks
PDF content tagging
PDF default language
PDF display title
PDF first heading
PDF fonts
PDF heading levels
PDF heading order
PDF headings
PDF image alt text
PDF language
PDF link descriptions
PDF lists
PDF metadata
PDF reading order
PDF role mapping
PDF structure tags
PDF tab order
PDF tables
PDF tagging
PDF text contrast
PDF text mapping
PDF title
PDF title
PDF/UA conformance
Phone privacy
Pinch-to-zoom enabled
Placeholder links
Placeholder pages
Pointer cancellation
Pointer gestures
Potential headings
Pre-ticked consent checkbox
Preconnect origins
Preloaded LCP image
Presentation role on interactive element
Programmatic field purpose
Prohibited ARIA attribute
Readability
Readable PDF text
Redundant entry
Render-blocking resources
Required audio controls
Responsive images
Review analytics solutions used
Robots.txt
Round Trip Times
RP and RT elements
Screen reader links
Section headings
Secure cookies
Semantic links
Semantic lists
Semantic lists
Sensory characteristics
Server response time
Session timeout
Short meta descriptions
Sign language for pre-recorded media
Silktide diagnostics
Sitemap
Sitemap page set to noindex
Skip to content
Skipped H2 headings
Slow loading pages
Small desktop text
Small mobile controls
Small mobile text
Social description
Social image
Social image alt text
Social language
Social site name
Social title
Social URL
Spelling
SSL encryption
Status messages
Strict Transport Security
Structured data
Structured data validity
Submit button alt text
Suggested form corrections
Summaries for tables
Table header IDs
Table headers
Table heading scopes
Technologies
Technology privacy
Text alternative for pre-recorded video
Text alternative for prerecorded audio
Text alternative for prerecorded media
Text compression
Text contrast
Text contrast over images
Text information
Text match
Text spacing
Thin pages
Time limited data loss
Title attribute labelling
Title on empty alt text
Unavoidable animation
Unclear PDF title
Unique label associations
Unused CSS
Unused JavaScript
URL underscores
User control of text
Valid label IDs
Valid label IDs for fragments
Visible focus
Visible loading text
Weak alt text
Web Vitals
Website address variations
Zoom disabled
Website settings
Website settings
Testing scope
Screens
General screen
What we test screen
Advanced screen
Script screen
Metadata screen
How languages work
Keyboard and screen readers
Screens
Targets screen
Pages screen
PDFs screen
AI reports screen
Module strategy
What changed in your score
Analytics
Acquisition
Campaigns and tracking parameters
Analytics content
Analytics pages
Downloads and outgoing links
Landing and exit pages
Audience
Engagement
Clickmaps and scrollmaps
Frustration
Funnels and goals
Screens
Realtime analytics screen
Testing scope
Presence
Getting started with Presence
How Presence works
Presence and AEO
Setting up Presence
Brands and competitors
Workspaces and topics
Prompts
How prompts are chosen
Languages in Presence
Permissions
Platforms we measure
AI assistant market share
ChatGPT
Gemini
Claude
Perplexity
Grok
Microsoft Copilot
Google AI Overviews
Google AI Mode
AI visibility
Measuring visibility
Metrics at a glance
Visibility
Share of voice
Rank
Sentiment
Traits
Heatmap
Brand map
Sources
Accuracy
Advertising in AI
Search
Page reports
AEO reports
What AEO reports judge
Answer isn't gated
Answer stated up front
Claims backed by evidence
Clear who and what this is
Content in a quotable shape
Content is coherent
Content reads as current
Credible expertise shown
Key facts readable as text
Key points quotable standalone
Offers original information
Page agrees with itself
Sections match real questions
Specific rather than promotional
Structured data matches the page
Tone cannot be misread as fact
SEO reports
What SEO reports judge
Adds something the results lack
As current as the results demand
Content is coherent
Covers the topic in real depth
Expertise the query demands
No obvious competitor advantage
One page owns the keyword
Page type fits the search intent
Reads naturally, not for engines
Snippet competes for the click
Speaks the searcher's language
Target keyword is winnable
Title promise is kept
Keyboard and screen readers
Strategy briefs
From briefs to tasks
What strategy briefs judge
Cited, not just mentioned
Competitive with the topic leaders
Content assistants can use
Described accurately and positively
No structural rival advantage
Own content answers the topic
Position improving over time
Present in third-party sources
Screens
Overview screen
Visibility screen
Compare screens
AI gaps screen
Strategy screen
Deep dives screen
News screen
Tasks screen
Search gaps screen
Search rankings screen
Search backlinks screen
Citations screen
Search engines screen
Crawlability screen
Searches screen
Ads screen
Assistants report
Reputation screen
Traits screen
Accuracy screen
Answers screen
Results screen
Workspace screen
Regions screen
Brands
Topics screen
Queries screen
Platforms screen
Plan screen
Appearance screen
Brand profile screen
Heatmaps screen
Perception screen
Positions screen
Traffic screen
Preview a website
Analytics
Content
Pages
Landing and exit pages
Downloads and outgoing links
Acquisition
Campaigns and tracking parameters
Engagement
Clickmaps and scrollmaps
Frustration
Events
Funnels and goals
Audience
Preferences screen
Consent screen
Bots screen
Analytics settings
Keyboard and screen readers
Screens
Real-time Analytics screen
Journeys screen
Data
Install
Privacy
Views
Tasks
Task integrations
Keyboard and screen readers
Silktide AI
AI models and providers
Data, privacy and retention
Ask and Edit mode
Silktide Agent
Keyboard and screen readers
Settings
My settings
Criteria
Screens
Website settings screen
Account screen
AI screen
Users screen
Checks screen
Roles screen
Decisions screen
Priorities screen
Responsibilities screen
Labels screen
Metadata screen
Spelling screen
Readability screen
Integrations screen
MCP
API screen
Plan screen
Adoption screen
Usage screen
Activity screen
Features screen
Regulations screen
Silktide Script
Techniques
Affiliate and sponsored placements
AI crawler access policy
Answer-first page structure
Astroturf review sites
Author pages and bylines
Community seeding
Comparison pages
Content readable without JavaScript
Credible proof on conversion pages
Digital PR
Fake and incentivised reviews
Guest-post link schemes
Internal linking for topical authority
llms.txt
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Machine-readable dates
Organization identity markup
Original research and statistics
Page speed and Core Web Vitals
Parasite SEO
Press kit and newsroom
Primary CTA clarity
Private blog networks
Quotable claims and evidence blocks
Review platform presence
Structured data markup
Wikipedia and Wikidata presence
FAQs
Accuracy vs visibility
Brand vs website
Can I export results for stakeholders?
Can I review page headings in Silktide?
Can I switch between Silktide 4 and Silktide 5?
Can I use Silktide with my CMS?
Can Silktide monitor staging and production?
Can Silktide test intranet sites?
Can Silktide test password-protected websites?
Can Silktide test single-page applications (SPAs)?
Do I have to use Silktide AI?
Does Silktide offer an on-premises version?
Does Silktide offer EU or US data hosting?
Does Silktide replace manual accessibility testing?
Does Silktide respect robots.txt?
Does Silktide store screenshots of my pages?
Does Silktide test PDFs?
Does Silktide work with Single Sign-On (SSO)?
How accurate are Silktide results?
How can I reset my password?
How do I change the interface language?
How do I download my data from Silktide?
How do I enable Silktide AI?
How do I exclude pages from testing?
How do I fix issues faster?
How do I invite a colleague to Silktide?
How do I request the destruction of customer data?
How do I request the removal of my personal data?
How do I retest a website?
How does AI spell-check work?
How does Silktide calculate scores?
How does Silktide choose which pages to test?
How does Silktide count pages?
How does Silktide detect cookies?
How does Silktide handle frames and iframes?
How does Silktide security work?
How does Silktide see websites?
How long does a website take to test?
If I score 100%, am I fully accessible?
Is customer data used to train AI models?
Is there a limit to the number of users on Silktide?
What AI models does Silktide use?
What AI providers does Silktide support?
What are user flows?
What can Silktide AI do?
What does Silktide AI do with my data?
What does Silktide do with my data?
What happened to tags?
What happens when my page allowance is reached?
What IP address and user agent does Silktide use?
What is a decision in Silktide?
What is AEO?
What is AI visibility?
What is Analytics in Silktide?
What is MCP in Silktide?
What is Silktide 5?
What is the difference between automated and assisted checks?
What should I do if a website will not test?
When was my website last tested?
Where is the Silktide VPAT?
Which browsers does Silktide support?
Which languages does Silktide support?
Why are my spelling results wrong?
Why can page limits prevent PDFs from testing?
Why did my score change when the website did not?
Why does Silktide test with an iPhone 5?
Why doesn't Silktide offer an accessibility plug-in or overlay?
Why is Silktide showing different content than my browser?
Definitions
Above the fold
Accessibility tree
Accessible name
Actual text
AEO
AI crawlers
AI credit
AI optimizer
AI visibility
Alt text
Annotation
ARIA
Artefact
Assertion
Assistive technology
Audio description
Bounce rate
Brand
Cache
Call to action
Canonical URL
CAPTCHA
Captions
CDN
CEFR
Citation
Claim
CLS
CMS
Connector address
Contrast ratio
Cookie
Core Web Vitals
CORS
Crawler
CSS
Decision
Decorative image
DOM
Education tier
EN 301 549
Engaged time
Event listener
Favicon
GDPR
Glyph
HTML
HTTP header
HTTPS
INP
Integration
JavaScript
JSON-LD
Keyboard focus
Label
Last-Modified
Lazy loading
LCP
Live region
llms.txt
Machine-readable text
Main thread
Market
Matterhorn Protocol
MCP
Mention
Meta description
Minification
Noindex
OCR
Open Graph
Page allowance
PDF\/UA
Personal data
Prompt
Rate limiting
Reading age
Reading order
Response
Responsive design
robots.txt
Role map
sameAs
Screen reader
Section
SEO
Share of voice
Social proof
Strategy brief
Structure tree
Structured data
Subprocessor
Success criterion
Tagged PDF
Topic
Trait
Transcript
Unicode
Viewport
Visit duration
WCAG
WCAG levels (A, AA, AAA)
Website (in Silktide)
Workspace
XML sitemap
XMP metadata
Roadmap
Upcoming
Under consideration
Shipped
Accessibility
Accessibility features
Silktide Toolbar
AI visibility
Inspector
Ask AI in the Inspector
Decisions and tasks
Following links in the Inspector
Mark an issue as fixed
Pages, issues, and evidence
PDFs