ACT accessibility checking with QualWeb

Introduction

This document provides information about ACT accessibility testing and instructions on how to set up the scan for it.

Admin users can configure the scan to do automated accessibility testing with ACT (Accessibility Conformance Testing) rules. The evaluation tool used is QualWeb.

• ACT is an officially published testing standard. This testing standard is designed to ensure that web content conforms to the accessibility standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
• QualWeb is an ACT-based accessibility evaluation tool that uses open source rules to detect issues within the WCAG 2.1 set of criteria. It was developed by the University of Lisbon.
• The implementation includes QualWeb rules to address A and AA conformance, integrated into the platform.

Advantages

• Accessibility checking consistency with legal authorities: The QualWeb rules engine ensures that you receive harmonized scan test results in parallel with results from the monitoring bodies and digital authorities that use the QualWeb rules engine.
• Follow W3C official recommendations: The ACT method of testing consists of rules that have been officially published by W3C.

How to enable QualWeb

QualWeb offers an optional way to scan your website. You can choose to use the regular rules engine or the QualWeb rules engine during your initial setup. This section provides instructions on how to change from another criteria to QualWeb for scans on your domain(s).

Steps to enable QualWeb:

• Navigate to the Domain Overview page.

• Click Action on the same row as the domain and select Edit Domain from the expanded list of options.

  The system opens the Edit a domain page.

• Locate the Features section.
• Click Accessibility to expand the menu.
• Select the desired QualWeb option to use this rules engine, or select a WCAG level for the traditional rules engine.
• Repeat for each domain as needed.

When the next crawl of your domain begins, your website content is analyzed with the QualWeb accessibility checks instead of the standard accessibility checks. An orange line indicates that previous scans were done with different measurements.

For more information, visit:

• Visual indication with changed accessibility guidelines
• Understanding Test Rules for WCAG Success Criteria
• ACT
• QualWeb
• W3C
• WCAG 2.1 AA