Introduction

This document provides instructions on how to do a Quick Scan from within the Web Browser Extension and analyze the data that the scan returns.

The Quick Scan consists of a light scan of your web page and provides near-instant feedback. Use the quick scan to check compliance as you prepare a web page for publication, or if you need a quick analysis of a page that is already published.

Quick scan is available through the Web Browser Extension and returns results for the following features and modules:

• Accessibility

• Data Privacy

• SEO

• Quality assurance Readability (LIX).

You will only see results for the features and modules above if they are enabled on your account.

Prerequisites

• An active account with the following modules enabled:

  • Accessibility

  • Data Privacy

  • SEO

  • Quality assurance Readability (LIX).

• Web browser extension installed

  • For more information, visit Handle accessibility issues with Web Browser Extension.

Instructions

This section provides instructions on how to start a Quick Scan.

1. Click Quick Scan (the lightning icon) on the Web Browser Extension toolbar.
2. Select the accessibility guideline you wish to use.
3. Click Start Quick Scan. The scan results appear in the browser extension when the scan is complete.

Quick scan progress

Track the progress of the scan on the browser extension. The progress steps that are shown for the quick scan are:

• HTML capture

• Sending to API

• Scanning

Quick scan checks

A Quick scan includes the following checks:

• Accessibility: All checks of type Error in the selected accessibility guideline.
• Data Privacy:

  • CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER

  • FINANCIAL_ACCOUNT_NUMBER

  • GENERIC_ID

  • IBAN_CODE

  • MEDICAL_RECORD_NUMBER

  • PASSPORT

  • SWIFT_CODE

  • VEHICLE_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER.

• SEO:

  • seo_missing_title

  • seo_missing_h1

  • seo_multiple_h1

  • seo_missing_subheadlines

  • seo_missing_alt

  • seo_no_follow

  • seo_no_index

  • seo_missing_meta_keyword

  • seo_missing_meta_description

  • seo_too_short_meta_description

Quick Scan in Drupal

For information about how to set up and do a quick scan from within Drupal, read:

• Quick Scan in Drupal setup instructions

• How to do the Quick Scan in Drupal

Additional resources

Troubleshooting

If the page is larger than 20 MB, the scan stops and the message The page is too big for Quick Scan appears on the display.

To scan larger pages, use the Single-page scan feature.

For more information, read Single-page scan.

FAQ

Where can I use Quick scan?

You can scan any page that you are able to view in your browser, including draft, preview, and staging pages.

The quick scan uses the HTML code that is captured by the browser extension, and forwards that data to the API to do the scan.

Where is the Quick scan data stored?

The data from the quick scan is not synchronized with the database. The scan results are not saved. 

Quick Scan

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

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