This document provides instructions on how to navigate the Accessibility dashboard and how to find and repair accessibility issues with this Acquia Optimize feature.
The Accessibility dashboard provides information on how to navigate and edit website accessibility issues and shows the selected level of compliance and the WCAG compliance for the selected target level and all of the lower levels.
To reach the Accessibility dashboard, click Accessibility (icon of a human with arms outstretched) on the page toolbar. The Accessibility dashboard opens.
This section of the Accessibility dashboard shows the percentage of the site that is compliant with the accessibility level set up for your website, as well as the industry-wide average compliance score.
This figure shows the percentage of the website that is compliant with the target compliance level, as selected during scan setup. For more information, see the Accessibility Compliance Score section in this article.
This figure shows the industry-wide average of accessibility compliance. The results appear in the Accessibility Diagnostics section.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Industry average.
The left menu on the Accessibility page provides more details about the specific categories.
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page. This page provides an overview of the Accessibility scan results:
Industry Average: This graph gives information about how your website compliance score compares with the average of competitors in your industry.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Show History: Click this button to see the results from all scans. This information is given below in a separate section. See the History section of this document for more information.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page. Fix, review, and ignore HTML snippets in bulk.
The Accessibility FastTrack page opens.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page. The list shows the URLs for pages that have accessibility issues.
The Pages with Failing Checks page opens.
Filter the list or sort for labels.
Sort between:
The table column headers are:
Labels: This column shows the labels for the domain.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Priority: This column shows the level of priority that the page has. High, Medium, or Low.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Open Page Details (the page icon): On the same row as a page with failing checks, click to open the page details.
The Page Details page opens. This page shows accessibility checks with issues and the percentage of compliance for the webpage.
Mark as fixed: Use this option when the issue is fixed on the website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans.
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore Check is that issues that you mark as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error comes back. Issues that you mark as Ignore are permanently removed from future scans and all compliance scores.
Open Issue Page: (an i for information icon) on the same row as an issue.
For more information about Issue View see the user guide article:
Inspect Page with Browser Extension (magnifying glass icon): Click to navigate to the page URL and view the page with the web browser extension.
Tip: If it is installed, use our web browser extension to find the errors on the page, repair the errors, and more.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page. This page shows a list of all checks that are done for the selected category.
Select the compliance level to filter for on the Accessibility Checklist page:
Filter the list for:
The results are shown in a table with the following headers:
Help Center: Click to navigate to the Help Center to see the details about the issue and some suggestions on how to fix it.
For more information, see the user guide article:
For a list of all of the checks, see the user guide article:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page. This page is a list of the most basic WCAG guidelines. The scan finds issues that do not meet the requirements.
The results are shown on this page in a table with the following headers:
Labels: This column shows the labels for the domain.
For more information and instructions for admin users on how to create labels, see the user guide article:
Priority: This column shows the level of priority that the page has. Priority is High, Medium, or Low.
For more information, see the user guide article:
For more information, see the user guide article:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page. This page shows a list of the pages that contain ignored checks.
The column headers are:
Click a page link to navigate to the WCAG Accessibility Compliance detail view for the page.
The list headers are:
Mark check as fixed: Click to mark the check as fixed. A dialog opens. Click OK to mark the check as Fixed.
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore Check is that issues that you mark as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error comes back. Issues that you mark as Ignore are permanently removed from future scans and all compliance scores.
Labels: This column shows the labels for the domain.
For more information and instructions for admin users, see the user guide article:
Priority: This column shows the level of priority that the page has. High, Medium, or Low.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Each row has the additional options to:
Tip: If it is installed, use the web browser extension to identify the placement of the errors on the page, repair the errors, and more.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page.
The menu expands with the following choices:
Internal PDFs: Click to select this option.
The Internal PDF Compliance page opens. This page shows the Internal PDF file accessibility compliance issues in a graph and a table.
Sort the table for issues that are:
The table menu items are:
Start PDF Accessibility Scan:
For more information, see the user guide article:
External PDFs: Click to select this option.
The External PDF Compliance page opens. This page shows the external PDF file accessibility compliance issues in a graph and a table.
Sort the table for issues that are:
The table menu items are:
For more information, see the user guide articles:
Select this option from the menu on the left side of the page.
Click to select Color Contrast Tool.
Enter the color codes of the text and background that is used on your site to see if it meets the criteria for color contrast accessibility standards.
See the contrast ratio for foreground and background color, font size, and graphical elements. The page shows how well the PDF page meets GDPR standards.
The tool gives a green PASS indicator if the color contrast is sufficient, or a FAIL indicator to let you know that the colors do not contrast enough to meet the criteria of the check.
Tip! The Color contrast checker web version is another quick way to test the color combinations on websites and pages, without logging in to the platform.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Click a page link and filter for the Ignored Checks detail view for the page.
Click to select an issue. The pane on the right-hand side of the page shows actions that you can do to the issue.
Click Unignore to remove the item from the list.
This section gives instructions on how to remove a reviewed issue. Do these steps in the Audit Log section.
This procedure is for issues marked as Reviewed in the Accessibility FastTrack® module or via the Page Details view. The Undo a Check Review option returns the issue to the errors view on the page and module where it occurs.
Click Audit Log from the menu on the left side of the page.
On the same row as a reviewed issue, click Action.
The issue is gone from the audit log and returns to the errors view on the page and module where it occurs.
For more information, see the user guide article:
The orange annotation appears on the compliance chart in the Accessibility module and the Accessibility section of the History Center.
For more information, see the user guide article:
The Accessibility guide provides guidelines on WCAG 2.0 and some common 2.1 requirements.
To navigate to the accessibility guide and view all of the available articles, visit:
To instructions on how to access the Accessibility guide from within the platform interface to be directed to the article that is relevant to a specific error, see the user guide article:
About the Accessibility guide.
On the same row as an error, from the Check List page, the Page View, or the Accessibility FastTrack page, click Help Center (graduation cap icon).
Checklist view
Accessibility FastTrack view
For more information, see the user guide article:
About the Accessibility guide.
The History Center stores all accessibility issues and details from previous scans.
Click History Center (bar graph icon), located on the top menu bar of any page within the platform.
The History Center landing page opens.
The page contains the following layout:
Domain: In the first field, click to expand the list of domains.
Module: In the second field, click to expand the list of available modules.
Viewing as Profile: This shows the profile that is being used.
For more information, see the user guide article:
The dashboard always shows data with the default profile selected. To change this, select a new profile (click the drop-down arrow to see the available profiles). Please be aware that when you change the profile, the numbers on all 3 sections inside the Performance module update accordingly.
The compliance score for the accessibility checks is calculated by using 100 (a perfect score) minus the number of errors found. This is then divided by the total number of accessibility checks.
For example:
If the compliance for individual accessibility checks is calculated by the
total number of pages minus pages with issues
for the
check total number of pages multiplied by 100
It will make no difference if there are 10 or 10.000 issues, it calculates the number of pages that fail the check as opposed to the total number of pages.
This section gives information about the different accessibility reports that are available.
The available reports for the Accessibility feature are:
For more information, see the user guide article:
For information on how to set up and configure the Accessibility feature, see the admin user guide article:
Accessibility setup.
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