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title: "How to ignore an accessibility check"
date: "2026-07-07T11:36:28+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to ignore, manage, and reinstate accessibility checks in Web Governance to keep your issues list clean and relevant."
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Introduction
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Sometimes an entire rule is not applicable to your specific context. For instance, if you know your website does not feature any multimedia, you can ignore multimedia-related checks to keep your list clean. This document provides instructions on how to ignore an accessibility check in Web Governance.

*   **Ignore check**: This action ignores the entire check (the rule itself) completely. 
*   **Ignore code snippet**: This action targets a specific instance of an issue, rather than an entire rule.
    *   **Local ignore**: This option instructs the scan to ignore the issue on a specific page if it is applied from the browser extension or the page details view.
    *   **Global ignore** (Fast track): This option instructs the scan to ignore a code snippet globally across your entire site. This option is available from the Fast Track view.

Important

It is not possible to bulk-ignore all instances of a specific check on a single page (for example, you cannot click one button to ignore all "missing alt text" images on the homepage). You must either ignore the check entirely, ignore specific code snippets one-by-one on that page, or use Fast track to ignore a specific snippet globally across your entire site.

Ignore check
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1.  Log in to your Web Governance instance and select the domain that you want to work with. 
2.  Click **Accessibility** (icon of a human with outstretched arms), on the domain menu bar.
3.  Select **Issues by type** or **Issues by page** from the left menu.
4.  Click to expand the **kebab menu** (three vertical dots) in the Actions column on the row that contains the failing check.
5.  Select **Ignore this check**.

Ignore code snippet
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This section provides instructions on how to use Fast track to ignore automated accessibility checks on code snippets in bulk across the domain.

### Mark automated code snippets as fixed

1.  Log in to your Web Governance instance and select the domain that you want to work with. 
2.  Click **Accessibility** (icon of a human with outstretched arms), on the domain menu bar.
3.  Select **Fast track** from the left menu.
4.  Click **View affected checks** in the Action column, on the same row as the failing code snippet that you want to work with. The system opens the Affected checks for code page.
5.  Select the **Automated checks** tab.
6.  Click the **kebab menu** (three vertical dots) in the Actions column on the row that contains the failing check.
7.  Select **Mark all matching code with this issue as fixed** from the expanded list of choices. The scan will ignore the accessibility check for the code snippet globally across your entire site.

View ignored checks
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1.  Log in to your Web Governance instance and select the domain that you want to work with. 
2.  Click **Accessibility** (icon of a human with outstretched arms), on the domain menu bar.
3.  Select **Issues by type** from the left menu.
4.  Select the **Ignored checks** tab for a list of previously ignored checks.

Reinstate ignored checks
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1.  Log in to your Web Governance instance and select the domain that you want to work with. 
2.  Click **Accessibility** (icon of a human with outstretched arms), on the domain menu bar.
3.  Select **Issues by type** from the left menu.
4.  Select the **Ignored checks** tab.
5.  Click the **kebab menu** (three vertical dots) in the Actions column on the row that contains the ignored check.
6.  Select **Restore this check** from the expanded list of choices.

Handle accessibility issues with the Web Governance Browser Extension
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For instructions on how to use the browser extension to handle accessibility issues, visit [Handle accessibility issues with the browser extension](/node/61691).