Policies introduction

Introduction

The Policies feature helps you set custom policies and rules for the scan to flag. The results from the scan are communicated with reports and alerts. This ensures that all content submitted by website content creators follows the same guidelines to helps you keep your content up-to-date and correct.

The module includes a large collection of pre-made policies, as well as the option to create custom policies.

To add the Policies feature to your plan, contact your sales representative.

Setup

Navigate with the links below for specific Policies setup instructions:

• Create a custom policy
• Policies that use CSS selectors
• Pre-made policies

Policies score

The scores for the Policies feature are calculated as follows:

• Start with a base of 100.
• Calculate the number of links or pages with errors, divided by the total number of links or pages, multiplied by 100.
• For example:
  ​12 / 14 (gives 0.8571428571428571) * 100.

When the policy score is shown in a Policy Compliance percentage, it represents the average taken from the compliance percentage of each policy that is applied for the domain.

Policies reports

This section provides information about the different Policies reports that are available.

The available reports for the Policies feature are:

• Policy Overview Report
• List of all Policies Report
• List Policies with Type: Matches Report
• List Policies with Type: Unwanted Report
• List Policies with Type: Required Report.

For more information, visit Policies reports.