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Prerequisites

This section describes the steps that need to be done before you can use Acquia Web Governance Quality Assurance.

Web Governance Quality Assurance is included in all subscriptions and does not require special admin setup, except for the Readability function. For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability setup.
Scan the site at least once to gather data. For more information, visit Domain scan setup.

Instructions

This section provides information on how to find and correct quality assurance errors.

Click Quality Assurance (the checkbox icon), on the domain dashboard toolbar.

The Quality Assurance page opens.

Use the menu on the left to see more. The following sections provide information on each menu item.

Summary

Click Summary from the menu on the left side of the page to navigate to the Quality Assurance summary page.

The Quality Assurance Summary page opens. The sections on the landing page are:

Quality Assurance Check
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Readability
- Quality Assurance: Readability
Content with QA Errors
- Quality Assurance: Content with QA Errors

Quality Assurance Check

This section displays the number of pages affected by broken links, broken images, potential misspellings, and (confirmed) misspellings.

Click Unique Broken Links to navigate to the Broken Links page. Navigate between All broken links, Ignored, or Marked as fixed.
The columns show the following:
- Broken Link: This column shows the full address of the broken link.
  For more information, visit:
  - Links
  - Fix broken links
- PageCorrect: Click this option to repair the link from the platform.
  For more information, visit PageCorrect.
- Response code: this is the error that the broken link returns.
- Type: This column names the type of error that is found.
- Documents: This column shows how many documents have the broken link.
- Pages: This column shows how many pages are affected by the broken link.
- Action: Click to expand actions to perform on the broken link.
  - Mark as fixed: Use this option when the issue is fixed on your website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans.
  - Ignore Misspelling: Use this option
    - If links are marked as dead when really they are not.
    - To ignore spelling issues on a single-page basis.
    - To ignore all other issues on a domain level. For more information, visit:
      - Spellcheck
      - Fix misspelled words
Click Broken images to navigate to the Broken Images page.

The columns show the following:
- : This column shows the full address of the broken link.For more information, visit:

Note

The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.

For more information, visit:
- Spellcheck
- Fix misspelled words

Important Highlights

This section displays the most significant quality assurance findings.

Click on any item to navigate to the details page for the error.

Quality Assurance Diagnostics

Displays the percentage of overall quality assurance compliance achieved, as well as a circular chart that gives a visual percentage result. There is a breakdown of the total number of quality assurance issues and the total number of pages that have issues. A line graph displays the number of quality assurance issues and content with issues.

Quality Assurance Compliance: This figure displays the percentage of issues that your website is compliant with. The goal is to achieve 100% of the accessibility level selected.
For more information, visit Accessibility.
Industry Average: This shows how your website compares against the average competitor in your industry.

For more information, visit Industry average.
Click Show history to view the progression of issues over time.
For more information, visit History center.

Readability

Click on the readability score to navigate to the Readability details page.

Click on the readability score to navigate to the Readability details page.

For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability.

Content with QA Errors

Click Content with QA Errors on the left menu bar.

For more information, visit Content with QA errors.

Links

Click Links on the left menu bar.

For more information, visit:

Spellcheck

Click Spellcheck on the left menu bar.

For more information, visit:
- Spellcheck
- Fix misspelled words

Readability

Click Readability on the left menu bar.

For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability.

History

The History Center stores all Quality Assurance issues and details from previous scans.

Click History Center (bar graph icon), located on the top menu bar.

The History Center landing page opens.

The page contains the following layout:
Domain: In the first field, click to expand the list of domains.
Click to select a domain from the list or switch to another domain.
Module: In the second field, click to expand the list of available modules.
Click to select Quality Assurance from the drop-down list. The Quality Assurance page of the History Center opens.
- The topmost section gives information on the profile that is being used for the results shown.
  - Viewing as Profile: This shows the profile that is being used. See Add Profile for information on how to add a new profile.
  - Device: The type of device used.
  - Measure from: Distance from the server location.

For more information, visit History Center.

Quality Assurance score

The compliance score for the quality assurance check is calculated by dividing the total number of page errors found by the total number of page errors plus the total number of documents, multiplied by 100.

Quality Assurance reports

The available reports for the Quality Assurance module are:

Quality Assurance Report
Pages with Quality Assurance Errors Report
Broken Links Report
Misspellings Report
Pages with Misspellings Report
Potential Misspellings Report
Readability Score Report
Broken Links Per Page Report
Misspellings Per Page Report.

Click Schedule This Report (calendar icon) on the same row as the report to receive the report as an email attachment. Multiple selection is allowed.
Click Open Report (eye icon) to get the newest report.
Click Report Administration (gear icon) to add other users to receive the report.

For more information, see the user guide article:

Quality Assurance reports.

Additional resources

Download the Chrome Extension: (Optional) Download and install the Acquia Web Governance extension. This extension is not required but is very useful to help identify content issues for easy handling.

Tip: Add the extension to the browser toolbar for easy access.

For instructions, visit Web browser extension.

Prerequisites

This section describes the steps that need to be done before you can use Acquia Web Governance Quality Assurance.

Web Governance Quality Assurance is included in all subscriptions and does not require special admin setup, except for the Readability function. For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability setup.
Scan the site at least once to gather data. For more information, visit Domain scan setup.

Instructions

This section provides information on how to find and correct quality assurance errors.

Click Quality Assurance (the checkbox icon), on the domain dashboard toolbar.

The Quality Assurance page opens.

Use the menu on the left to see more. The following sections provide information on each menu item.