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title: "How to use PageCorrect"
date: "2022-01-12T09:27:42+00:00"
summary: "Easily fix quality and accessibility issues on your website with PageCorrect. No coding needed - make instant updates for better user experience."
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Introduction
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This document provides instructions on how to use PageCorrect.

Navigation
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### Summary

The _Summary_ page is the landing page for PageCorrect. Follow these steps to access the page fields and review the actions that you can do from this view.

1.  Navigate to the domain dashboard.
2.  Click **PageCorrect** (icon of a shield with a checkmark) on the domain toolbar. The _Summary_ page opens.
    
    ![The location of the PageCorrect button on the dashboard toolbar.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/70c26203-172e-48ba-9e3a-a1f703dd23ae/web/Mon_Opt_Dashboard-PageCorrect.png)
    
3.  **Summary**: From the menu on the left, click to view the summary. This is the default landing page. The _Summary_ page contains the following fields:
    *   **PageCorrects Categorized**: This field shows the distribution of the issues PageCorrect identified with the scan:
        *   **Spelling Fixes**
        *   **Links Fixes**
        *   **Accessibility Fixes**
        *   **Custom Fixes.**
    *   **PageCorrect Diagnostics**: This page shows the diagnostics and statistics for PageCorrect issues:
        *   **Overall PageCorrects**
        *   **Spelling Errors Used.**
    *   **Latest Updated PageCorrects**:
        *   **Issue**: The issue/code snippet that was edited.
        *   **Changed To**: The change that was made.
        *   **Updated At**: The timestamp for the update.

Instructions
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### List

1.  Click **List** on the left menu.

![The location of the List option on the left menu bar of the Page Correct Content page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/91da917e-b146-4c90-8fc4-425423e5b5fe/web/Mon_Opt_PageCorrect-LeftMenu-ListButton.png)

The toolbar above the results list contains the following fields:

*   **Use or apply custom PageCorrect**: Click **Use or Apply Custom PageCorrect**, on the upper right-hand side of the page.
    
    ![The Custom Phrase or Word dialog box for the button: Use or Apply Custom PageCorrect. The fields are described in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/b07bfd1f-d405-4761-9c4b-ed3f6155d436/web/Mon_PageCorrect-CustomPhraseOrWord.png)
    
    *   **Target:** Enter a word or phrase to search for.
    *   **Word or Phrase**: Enter a word or phrase to replace it with.
*   **Delete All**: Click to remove all PageCorrect issues.
    
    ![The dialog box for the Delete All button. The text on the dialog is in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/917b040f-3ee1-4a94-8369-e01d26300264/web/Mon_PageCorrect-DeleteAllDialog.png)
    
    *   A dialog asks, "**Are you sure you want to remove** `**all**` **PageCorrects?**  
        **Please type** `**Delete**` **to confirm this action**"
    *   Type "**Delete**" into the text field and then click **OK** to delete all PageCorrects from the list, or click **Cancel** to exit the dialog.
*   **Search**: Begin typing in the **Search** field to search for a specific snippet.
*   **Filter for**:
    *   All
    *   Spelling
    *   Accessibility Source Code
    *   Accessibility Check
    *   Links
    *   Custom.
*   **Table Fields**:
    *   **Issue**: The issue/code snippet.
    *   **Changed To**: The change that was made.
    *   **Updated At**: The timestamp of the change.
    *   **Created At**: The timestamp of when the issue was created.
    *   **Actions**: Click to expand the menu.
        
        Select:
        
        *   **Update** to update the issue.
        *   **Remove** to remove the issue from the list.

The following actions can be done with PageCorrect:

*   Rule: Custom rules
*   Action: Replace a custom string of text with a different string of text.

Repair Accessibility issues
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Click to view **Accessibility Fixes** from the menu on the left. The _Accessibility Fixes_ page contains the following fields:

*   Search: Begin typing in the field to search for a specific issue.
*   The table contains the headers:
    *   **Name**: The name of the issue.
    *   **Difficulty**: The difficulty level needed to fix the issue. This gives the user some indication of the level of expertise needed.
        
        *   Easy
        *   Medium
        *   Hard.
        
        For more information, visit [Issue priority](/node/58621).
        
    *   **Action**: This column contains the **Apply Fix** button. Click for an explanation of the issue and suggestions on how to fix it.

The following actions can be done to repair accessibility issues with PageCorrect:

#### Rule

#### Action

Accessibility: Substitute "marquee" element

Replace the "marquee" element with a different element

Accessibility: Substitute "i" (italic) element

Replace the "i" element with a different element

Accessibility: Substitute "blink" element

Replace the "blink" element with a different element

Accessibility: Substitute "b" (bold) element

Replace the "b" element with a different element

Accessibility: Add "skip to content" link

Add a "skip to content" link to the page

Note

If the Web Governance subscription ends, the error remains in the website HTML. Acquia recommends that web developers fix the issue within the HTML code or CMS. Note the nature of the issue, the location, and any other information you can provide, and send it to the web developer for a permanent fix.

For more information, visit [Accessibility](/web-governance/accessibility-introduction "Accessibility introduction").

Repair spelling errors
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1.  Click **PageCorrect** (the icon of a shield with a checkmark).
    
    ![The location of the PageCorrect button on the dashboard toolbar.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/70c26203-172e-48ba-9e3a-a1f703dd23ae/web/Mon_Opt_Dashboard-PageCorrect.png)
    
2.  Click **List** from the menu on the left.
    
    ![The location of the List option on the left menu bar of the Page Correct Content page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/91da917e-b146-4c90-8fc4-425423e5b5fe/web/Mon_Opt_PageCorrect-LeftMenu-ListButton.png)
    
3.  **Filter for**: Select **Spelling**.
    
    The table has the following fields:
    
    *   Issue
    *   Changed To
    *   Updated At
    *   Created At
    *   Actions.
4.  Click **Actions**. The menu expands with the following options:
    *   Update
    *   Remove.
5.  Select **Update**. A dialog opens.
    
    ![The Fix Misspelling window with a field to add the correct spelling.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/613cf7ce-1614-4b2e-a922-23fe65e4ce1d/web/Mon_PageCorrect-FixMisspelling.png)
    
6.  **Please insert the correct word**: Enter the correct spelling for the word.
7.  Click **Save**. The dialog closes.

The following actions can be done with PageCorrect:

*   Rule: Spellcheck
*   Action: Replace a misspelled word with a different word.

Note

If the Web Governance subscription ends, the error remains in the website HTML. Acquia recommends that web developers fix the issue within the HTML code or CMS. Note the nature of the issue, the location, and any other information you can provide, and send it to the web developer for a permanent fix.

For more information, visit [Fix misspelled words](/node/58611).

Repair broken links
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This section provides instructions on how to repair broken links.

*   From the **Web Governance** **Domain Overview** (globe icon), click to select the domain that you need to work with. The domain _Dashboard_ opens.
*   Click **PageCorrect** (shield with a checkmark icon). The _PageCorrect_ dashboard opens.
    
    ![The location of the PageCorrect button on the dashboard toolbar.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/70c26203-172e-48ba-9e3a-a1f703dd23ae/web/Mon_Opt_Dashboard-PageCorrect.png)
    
*   From the menu on the left-hand side of the page, click **List**.
    
    ![The location of the List option on the left menu bar of the Page Correct Content page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/91da917e-b146-4c90-8fc4-425423e5b5fe/web/Mon_Opt_PageCorrect-LeftMenu-ListButton.png)
    
    The _PageCorrect Content_ page opens_._ The results are in a table format.
    
*   **Filter**: On the toolbar above the results list, select to filter for **Links**.
*   The columns are:
    *   **Issue**: The icon for the type of issue, either a broken chain link icon or a broken image icon, along with the title for the issue (Broken Link or Broken Image) and the URL for the issue.
    *   **Changed to**: The last change that was done to the issue.
    *   **Updated at**: The date that the issue was updated last.
    *   **Created at**: The date that the issue was created.
    *   **Action button**: Click to expand the list of options: **Update** or **Remove**.

On the same row as a broken link, click **Action**. The menu expands. Select:

*   **Update** to update the issue. A dialog opens:
    
    ![The Fix Broken Link dialog with a field to add the correct link.The instructions are in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/4df18672-2556-4a48-9447-24e3c066edf5/web/Mon_Opt_PageCorrect-UsePageCorrectToFixBrokenLinkDialog)
    
    The dialog has a field with the existing URL and the instructions: "**Please insert correct URL**:"
    
*   Enter the correct URL in the field provided.
    
    The URL must start with a protocol such as `_http://_`_._
    
    Note
    
    All links that lead to the same destination are listed. The first five are displayed, but the full number of URLs discovered is shown.
    
*   Click **Save**.
    
    This fixes the broken link in all instances throughout the website.
    
    Note
    
    If the Web Governance subscription ends, the error remains in the website HTML. Acquia recommends that web developers fix the issue within the HTML code or CMS. Note the nature of the issue, the location, and any other information you can provide, and send it to the web developer for a permanent fix.
    
*   **Remove**: Click to remove the issue from the list.
    
    Select this choice if the link is known to be correct and the error occurred due to, for example, a server outage at the time of the last scan.
    
    Note
    
    If the error persists, is flagged on subsequent scans.
    

The following actions can be done to repair broken links with PageCorrect:

#### Rule

#### Action

Broken links

Replace a broken link with a different link

Broken images

Replace a broken image link with a different image link