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Trusted

Federal guidance shifts on a Tuesday and nobody sends your web team a memo. The pages quoting last year's rule go on answering with total confidence, and students make real decisions on what they read there. Standing behind every word on your site starts with knowing the moment a change reaches it.

How This Gets Measured

Three counts, taken across every page we watch, updated on every scan.

TTrusted

26%

Pages with nothing wrong

198 pages watched

46%

Pages with working links

24%

Findings resolved

this engagement

how much of the site is correct rather than merely tidy

Four Ways an Answer Goes Wrong

Accuracy is not one problem. It is four, and each one fails differently, which is why a single proofread never catches them all.

Terminology

01

The Words Changed

A term gets renamed federally and the old word lives on across dozens of pages. Students search the new one, find nothing, and assume the information does not exist.

Regulation

02

The Rule Changed

Requirements get repealed and limits get raised. The page keeps quoting the old version, and it reads as authoritative because it sits on your domain.

Conflict

03

Your Own Pages Disagree

Financial aid says one deadline, the registrar says another. Nobody is wrong on purpose. Nobody has ever seen those pages side by side.

Scale

04

The Site Contradicts Itself

A process explained four ways across four departments is a pattern, not a typo. Invisible page by page, obvious the moment something reads all of them at once.

Compliance Review

Every Finding Quotes Your Own Page

Nothing in the reporting is a judgment call you have to defend upward without proof. You get the exact sentence, the exact page, the guidance behind it, and what to do about it, ranked so your team works the ones that change a student's decision first.

Content Quality 198 Pages Scanned

Fix First

18

Worth a Look

64

Cross-Page Conflicts

9

Resolved

143

Renamed Term Still in Use

Fix First

Federal Student Aid · /financial-aid/how-aid-works · 5 more pages

Your EFC is calculated from the information you report on the FAFSA.

What to Do: Replace with Student Aid Index. Four of the six pages explain the old formula, so the surrounding paragraph needs rewriting rather than a find and replace.

Repealed Requirement Posted as a Barrier

Fix First

Federal Student Aid · /admissions/eligibility

Applicants must register with Selective Service to be eligible for federal aid.

What to Do: This requirement was removed by the FAFSA Simplification Act. A student who reads this and believes they are ineligible never applies and never learns otherwise.

Discontinued Program Listed as Available

Worth a Look

Federal Student Aid · /financial-aid/types-of-aid

We offer Pell Grants, Federal Perkins Loans, and work study.

What to Check: New Perkins loans ended in 2017. Your repayment content is still correct; a list of aid you currently offer is not.

Cross-Page Conflicts

One Question, Four Different Answers

This is the finding nobody else produces, because catching it requires reading every page at once and holding them against each other. A student asking a single question gets four confident answers from one institution.

"When is the priority deadline for fall aid?"

Financial Aid March 1 /financial-aid/deadlines. Updated this year and matches your published calendar.
Registrar March 15 /registrar/dates. Last edited in 2021, when the deadline actually was March 15.
Admissions Early March /admissions/afford. Vague enough that a student cannot act on it.
Graduate School Not Stated /graduate/funding. Links to a PDF from a prior cycle instead of naming a date.

Root Cause: The deadline moved and three of the four pages were never told. Each office owns its own content, and nothing has ever compared them.

Recommended Fix: Establish financial aid as the source of truth for this date, correct the other three, and add it to your Playbook so future scans flag any page that states it differently.

Regulation Corner

Every Change, Mapped to Your Pages

We monitor NASFAA, StudentAid.gov, FSA Partner Connect, Dear Colleague Letters, FERPA guidance, and state residency rules, then cross-check each update against what your site actually says. An update arrives as a named list of your pages rather than a bulletin somebody has to interpret and route.

Regulation Corner 3 Updates This Month

OBBBA Loan Limits: New Parent PLUS Caps

Action Needed

Federal Student Aid · Effective 2026-07-01 · Financial Aid

New annual and aggregate Parent PLUS caps apply to loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2026. Any page stating Parent PLUS is limited only by cost of attendance now needs the per-dependent caps instead.

Affected Pages: Types of Aid, Parent Loans, Cost of Attendance, Policies and Guidelines for Students

ADA Title II Web Rule: WCAG 2.1 AA

Plan Now

Department of Justice · Compliance Deadline · Institution Wide

Public institutions must meet WCAG 2.1 AA across web content and mobile apps. Your Accessibility scan already reports against this standard, so the gap is measurable today.

Curious what Regulation Corner would flag on your site this morning?

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Accuracy Is Not a Project

A content audit tells you what was wrong the month somebody looked. Guidance keeps moving, offices keep publishing, and pages keep drifting apart from each other. The only version of accurate that holds is the one being checked continuously.

How the Work Happens

1

We Watch the Sources

Federal and state guidance monitored continuously, not gathered up the week before an audit.

2

We Match It to You

Each change gets cross-checked against your content, and every page runs against every other page to surface the conflicts inside your own site.

3

You Correct With Confidence

Your office approves the new language, the scan confirms every affected page carries it, and the decision becomes a Playbook rule so it holds next year.

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