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PageCorrect

This article gives instructions on how to set up and use PageCorrect.

Introduction

Acquia Optimize PageCorrect is a script-based add-on that helps you to find and repair quality assurance and accessibility issues directly, without the need to log onto a content management system (CMS).

Ensure that your website is free of quality assurance and accessibility errors with the ability to fix website issues, like broken links, misspellings, and accessibility problems directly from within the platform itself. The changes are immediately reflected on your website.

The interface enables even non-technical users to update your site easily without any coding knowledge.

This module requires the Acquia Optimize script.

Key features

  • Quick and easy to use

    Designed with non-technical users in mind, PageCorrect gives step-by-step instructions on how to achieve website optimization.

  • Correct misspellings

    PageCorrect helps users to identify and correct misspelled words across an entire website.

  • Fix broken links

    Repair broken links that can harm the overall user experience.

  • Repair broken images

    Locate and repair broken images.

  • Ensure Alt attributes are not missing or incorrectly used

    Find and repair missing or incorrectly applied alt attributes that can negatively impact the level of accessibility compliance on your website.

  • Customize rules for words

    Identify specific spellings, words, or phrases used across your website and update them in bulk.

  • Identify and instantly address non-ADA-compliant elements

    Find and remove non-ADA-compliant elements (for example, <i> and <b> elements) and improve the website's level of accessibility.

Instructions

This section gives instructions on how to use PageCorrect.

Summary

The Summary page is the landing page for PageCorrect. This section gives instructions on the page fields and actions that you can do from this view.

  1. Navigate to the domain dashboard.
  2. Click PageCorrect (icon of a shield with a checkmark) on the domain toolbar. The Summary page opens.

  3. Summary: From the menu on the left-hand side of the page, click to view the summary. This is the default landing page. The Summary page contains the following fields:
    • PageCorrects Categorized: This field shows the distribution of the issues PageCorrect identified with the scan:
      • Spelling Fixes
      • Links Fixes
      • Accessibility Fixes
      • Custom Fixes.
    • PageCorrect Diagnostics: This page shows the diagnostics and statistics for PageCorrect issues:
      • Overall PageCorrects
      • Spelling Errors Used.
    • Latest Updated PageCorrects:
      • Issue: The issue/code snippet that was edited.
      • Changed To: The change that was made.
      • Updated At: The timestamp for the update.

List

  1. Click to List from the menu on the left side of the page.

The toolbar above the results list contains the following fields:

  • Use or apply custom PageCorrect: Click Use or Apply Custom PageCorrect, on the upper right-hand side of the page.

    • Target: Enter a word or phrase to search for.
    • Word or Phrase: Enter a word or phrase to replace it with.
  • Delete All: Click to remove all PageCorrect issues.

    • A dialog asks, "Are you sure you want to remove all PageCorrects?
      Please type Delete to confirm this action"
    • Type "Delete" into the text field and then click OK to delete all PageCorrects from the list, or click Cancel to exit the dialog.
  • Search: Begin typing in the Search field to search for a specific snippet.
  • Filter for:
    • All
    • Spelling
    • Accessibility Source Code
    • Accessibility Check
    • Links
    • Custom.
  • Table Fields:
    • Issue: The issue/code snippet.
    • Changed To: The change that was made.
    • Updated At: The timestamp of the change.
    • Created At: The timestamp of when the issue was created.
    • Actions: Click to expand the menu.

      Select:

      • Update to update the issue.
      • Remove to remove the issue from the list.

The following actions can be done with PageCorrect:

  • Rule: Custom rules
  • Action: Replace a custom string of text with a different string of text.

Accessibility fixes

Click to view Accessibility Fixes. from the menu on the left side of the page. The Accessibility Fixes page contains the following fields:

  • Search: Begin typing in the field to search for a specific issue.
  • The table contains the headers:
    • Name: The name of the issue.
    • Difficulty: The difficulty level needed to fix the issue. This gives the user some indication of the level of expertise needed.

      • Easy
      • Medium
      • Hard.

      For more information, see the user guide article:

      Priority, Severity, Difficulty, and Likelihood.

    • Action: This column contains the Apply Fix button. Click for an explanation of the issue and suggestions on how to fix it.

The following actions can be done with PageCorrect:

Rule

Action

Accessibility: Substitute "marquee" elementReplace the "marquee" element with a different element
Accessibility: Substitute "i" (italic) elementReplace the "i" element with a different element
Accessibility: Substitute "blink" elementReplace the "blink" element with a different element
Accessibility: Substitute "b" (bold) elementReplace the "b" element with a different element
Accessibility: Add "skip to content" linkAdd a "skip to content" link to the page

For more information, see the user guide article:

Repair Spelling Errors

  1. Click PageCorrect (the icon of a shield with a checkmark).

  2. From the menu on the left-hand side of the page, click to view List.

  3. Filter for: Select Spelling.

    The table has the following fields:

    • Issue
    • Changed To
    • Updated At
    • Created At
    • Actions.
  4. Click Actions. The menu expands with the following options:
    • Update
    • Remove.
  5. Select Update. A dialog opens.

  6. Please insert the correct word: Enter the correct spelling for the word.
  7. Click Save. The dialog closes.

The following actions can be done with PageCorrect:

  • Rule: Spellcheck
  • Action: Replace a misspelled word with a different word.

For more information, see the user guide article:

Quick Guide: Fix Misspelled Words

Repair Broken Links

This section gives instructions on how to repair broken links.

  • From the Acquia Optimize Domain Overview (globe icon), click to select the domain that you need to work with. The domain Dashboard opens.
  • Click PageCorrect (shield with a checkmark icon). The PageCorrect dashboard opens.

  • From the menu on the left-hand side of the page, click List.

    The PageCorrect Content page opens. The results are in a table format.

  • Filter: On the toolbar above the results list, select to filter for Links.
  • The columns are:
    • Issue: The icon for the type of issue, either a broken chain link icon or a broken image icon, along with the title for the issue (Broken Link or Broken Image) and the URL for the issue.
    • Changed to: The last change that was done to the issue.
    • Updated at: The date that the issue was updated last.
    • Created at: The date that the issue was created.
    • Action button: Click to expand the list of options: Update or Remove.

On the same row as a broken link, click Action. The menu expands. Select:

  • Update to update the issue. A dialog opens:

    The dialog has a field with the existing URL and the instructions: "Please insert correct URL:"

  • Enter the correct URL in the field provided. The URL must start with a protocol such as http://.

  • Click Save. This fixes the broken link in all instances throughout the website.

  • Remove: Click to remove the issue from the list.

    Select this choice if the link is known to be correct and the error occurred due to, for example, a server outage at the time of the last scan.

The following actions can be done with PageCorrect:

Rule

Action

Broken linksReplace a broken link with a different link
Broken imagesReplace a broken image link with a different image link

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