See the accessibility, AI visibility, and trust risks hiding across your institution's web ecosystem.
SiteShield scans the websites students, parents, donors, and regulators actually use - main domains, departmental subsites, program pages, microsites - and reports WCAG/AODA exposure, AI search readiness, performance, and public-trust signals in one institutional dashboard.
Accessibility lawsuits, AI search, and institutional trust are colliding - and most schools have no running visibility.
SiteShield is a website audit platform for educational institutions that measures WCAG/AODA accessibility, AI search visibility, performance, and trust signals across an institution’s web properties. The web surface educational institutions are accountable for is enormous: department sites, program landing pages, faculty pages, microsites for events, alumni and giving sites, K–12 school sites under a district. They're public, indexed, and increasingly the first place students, parents, donors, and AI engines look. Most institutions can't tell you, in one screen, whether those sites are accessible, discoverable, or trustworthy.
An institutional dashboard, not a one-off audit.
Every scan produces a multi-section report your team can take to leadership, accessibility committees, accreditation reviewers, and IT governance - without further interpretation. Branded with your institution's logo and colors.
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Accessibility posture (WCAG/AODA-aligned)
Visible accessibility signals - contrast, alt text, heading structure, keyboard navigation, form labels, language declarations - aggregated to a posture score per site and across the institution.
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AI Visibility Index (0–100)
A single number summarizing how prominently the institution surfaces across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude when prospective students and parents ask buying-intent questions. Trendable scan-over-scan.
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20 institution-specific prompts
Gemini generates 20 realistic prospective-student and prospective-parent questions in your discipline mix, region, and peer set. Then Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude each answer them. See exactly how your institution is described.
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Peer visibility comparison
The same 20 prompts × up to 3 peer institutions. Find out which competing universities, colleges, or districts AI engines mention when prospects ask about your category - and which questions you're absent from.
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7-pillar audit (Security, Accessibility, Performance, SEO, AEO, GEO, ESG)
The foundational signals that determine whether AI engines and search engines can read, trust, and recommend the institution's sites. Each pillar maps to a recognizable owner: IT, accessibility office, digital communications, advancement.
AI Search Visibility
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Multi-site. Role-aware. Procurement-friendly.
The SiteShield Portal is the multi-tenant operations layer underneath every report. Manage your entire family of institutional URLs under one license, with the role separation and audit trail institutional teams need to share findings across IT, accessibility, communications, and advancement.
Unlimited subsites under one license
Departmental pages, program landing pages, research center sites, faculty subdomains, microsites, K–12 school sites under a district - all covered under one institutional license. No per-URL fees.
Role-based access
IT sees infrastructure and security. The accessibility office sees WCAG signals. Communications sees AI visibility and SEO. Advancement sees trust and donor-page health. Each role sees what's relevant to them.
Procurement-friendly
Billed once on a single invoice. SOC-aligned data handling, FERPA-aware scoping (we scan public pages only, never authenticated student data), and a clear data-processing agreement available before purchase.
Re-scan ready for cycles
Schedule re-scans to align with accreditation cycles, accessibility committee cadences, or annual reporting. The data difference between scans becomes its own deliverable - "here's what improved" / "here's what regressed."
Sized for institutions, not advertised seats.
A one-time institutional license, then a scan bundle right-sized to how many sites you're accountable for. No per-URL fees, no surprise overages, no per-seat charges for your team.
Right-sized for a single faculty, school, or office within a larger institution.
- Full audit suite - every feature included
- 7-pillar audit (incl. WCAG/AODA-aligned accessibility)
- Multi-LLM visibility (4 engines)
- 20 institution-specific prompts per scan
- Peer visibility comparison
- Institution-branded reports
- Multi-site Portal
- Scan history: 12 months
- Standard email support
The institutional baseline. Quarterly re-scans across departmental sites.
- Everything in Department, plus:
- 2.5× the scan volume (quarterly refreshes on more sites)
- Scan history: 24 months
- Priority email support (24h response)
- Role-based access for IT / Accessibility / Comms / Advancement
- Accreditation-cycle re-scan scheduling
- Quarterly accessibility-trend call
For K–12 districts and multi-campus university systems with hundreds of sites.
- Everything in Campus, plus:
- 4.2× the scan volume (monthly cadence across many sites)
- Scan history: unlimited
- Dedicated Slack / Teams support channel
- White-glove onboarding for IT, accessibility, and comms leads
- Custom report branding consultation
- Annual executive briefing for cabinet / board
All tiers include the full feature set - WCAG/AODA-aligned accessibility coverage, multi-LLM visibility across all 4 AI engines, 20-prompt brand universe, and peer benchmarking. Tiers differ on scan volume, support level, and history retention. Multi-campus or special procurement needs? Talk to us.
SiteShield vs a one-off accessibility audit.
SiteShield doesn't replace a certified WCAG conformance audit. It's the running, multi-site visibility layer your institution needs between formal audits - so accessibility, AI visibility, and trust don't drift unmonitored for years.
| Capability | One-off audit | SiteShield |
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| Frequency | Snapshot, often years apart | Continuous, on a schedule your team controls |
| Coverage | A sample of pages on the main domain | The full family of institutional URLs - every dept, program, and microsite you point us at |
| Beyond accessibility | Accessibility only | Accessibility + AI visibility + performance + SEO + trust signals + ESG, in one report |
| Audience | Built for the auditor | Built for IT, accessibility, communications, and advancement - each sees the slice that's theirs |
| Cost model | Hourly / per-page, scales with site size | Flat one-time license + scan bundle, regardless of how many subsites |
| Legal posture | A certified conformance attestation at a point in time | Running evidence that the institution monitors accessibility between formal audits |
SiteShield is not a substitute for a certified WCAG/AODA conformance audit by an accredited auditor. It is designed to live alongside one - providing ongoing visibility between formal audits.
See what your institutional report would look like.
Run a free scan on your institution's main domain, or any departmental subsite. The free preview includes the 7-pillar audit, AI crawler accessibility check, and a snapshot of the report structure your institutional team would receive. No credit card.
For institutional teams considering SiteShield.
Everything you might want to know before licensing the platform for your university, college, or district.
What is SiteShield for Education?
A website intelligence platform built for universities, colleges, and K–12 districts. It scans the institution's web ecosystem - main domains, departmental subsites, program pages, research centers, faculty pages, microsites - for WCAG/AODA accessibility coverage, AI search visibility across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, technical performance, on-page SEO, and public-trust signals.
How does this help with WCAG or AODA compliance?
SiteShield surfaces visible accessibility signals - contrast, alt text, heading structure, keyboard navigation, form labels, language declarations, and similar public-facing checks - across every scanned URL. The result is a prioritized accessibility posture for institutional leadership, not a black-box auditor's PDF. SiteShield does not replace a full conformance audit by a certified accessibility auditor; it gives institutional teams the running visibility they need between formal audits, so they can act before complaints, lawsuits, or accreditation review.
Does SiteShield store student data?
No, SiteShield scans public web pages only - the same pages a prospective student, parent, or AI crawler would see anonymously. It does not authenticate into your LMS, SIS, or any system that holds student records. Nothing in SiteShield's scan path involves FERPA-protected data.
How does pricing work for an institution with hundreds of subsites?
The $1,500 Institutional License is a one-time payment for the right to scan an unlimited number of departmental and program sites under one accountable URL family - typically your main domain plus its subdomains and subdirectories. It funds your Portal setup, role configuration, and accessibility-team onboarding. The scan bundle tiers (Department / Campus / District) determine how many scans you get, valid for 12 months. Most universities sit comfortably in the Campus plan; large multi-campus systems and K–12 districts choose the District plan. The $1,500 rate is our founding institution pricing - it locks in for life for founding institutions.
Can we white-label reports with our institution's branding?
Yes, every tier includes branding. Your institution's logo, name, and colors appear on the report. Reports look like your institution produced them, which makes them safe to circulate internally to accessibility committees, accreditation reviewers, IT governance, and cabinet.
How long does a scan take?
The base 7-pillar audit per site completes in about 30 to 60 seconds. The deeper modules - multi-LLM visibility, peer benchmarking - lazy-load on demand and complete in 15 to 60 seconds each. A full report per site typically assembles in 2 to 4 minutes. Institution-wide scans across many sites run in parallel and complete within hours, not days.
Who in the institution actually uses this?
Typically four roles: IT / digital services (owns performance, security, infrastructure signals), the accessibility office or coordinator (owns the WCAG/AODA posture), communications and marketing (owns AI visibility, SEO, on-page content quality), and advancement (cares about donor-facing trust and the giving-page experience). The Portal's role-based access lets each one see the slice that's theirs without having to wade through everything.
Does SiteShield work for K–12 districts?
Yes, the District / System tier is designed for K–12 districts running many individual school sites under a district domain. The same accessibility, AI visibility, performance, and trust signals apply - and the role-based portal lets the district communications office, IT, and individual school principals each see the slice relevant to them.
Can we get a data-processing agreement before purchase?
Yes, email us and we'll send a one-page DPA covering what SiteShield scans (public pages only), where data is processed, retention periods, and your institution's rights to deletion and export. Most institutional procurement offices clear it in one review pass.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, run a free preview scan on any URL - your institution's homepage, a single department site, or a peer institution - to see the report structure and signal types before committing. The free scan includes the 7-pillar audit and a snapshot of AI crawler accessibility. Multi-LLM visibility and peer benchmarking are unlocked after license activation.
Ready to see your institution's web posture in one screen?
Walk us through your URL family and we'll right-size a tier that works for your accessibility, communications, and IT teams. Or run a scan yourself - no commitment, no credit card.
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