How to use the Accessibility module

How to use the Accessibility module

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

• Automated: This category contains failed checks as determined by the scan. Issues of this type are confirmed errors that must be fixed.
• Assisted: This category contains checks that the program was unable to verify. Issues of this type are potential errors, and a human must make the final evaluation.

This document provides instructions on how to find and repair accessibility issues with Acquia Web Governance.

Navigate to Web Governance Accessibility

1. Log in to your Web Governance account.
2. Select the domain that you want to work with.
3. Expand the left menu bar if the options are not visible.
4. Click Accessibility (an icon of a human with outstretched arms) on the left menu bar.

For information about navigational options within Accessibility, read Accessibility navigation.

Locate accessibility issues

You can locate issues in several ways. Choose the view that is best for your method of working from the left menu.

• Summary page: This is the Accessibility dashboard. Use the links provided to navigate to the list of all failing checks for the domain.
• Issues by type: Select this option from the left menu. This view displays failing checks arranged by type of issue.
• Issues by page: Select this option from the left menu. This view displays failing checks arranged by the website page they occur on.
• Fast track: Select this option from the left menu. This view displays failing checks in the HTML code for the domain.
• PDFs: Select this option from the left menu. This view lists the PDF files that the scan found on your site and provides information about remediation. If you include links to external PDFs on your domain, you can view the accessibility status of those.

For more infomation, read Accessibility navigation.

Issues by type

• This method lets you view failing accessibility checks by the type of issue. View issues per:
  Automated checks: These are accessibility checks that the scan is able to accurately identified as failing.
• Assisted checks: These are accessibility checks that cannot be determined by the scan and need a human review.
• Ignored checks: These are the failing checks that have been marked Ignore by a user. The scan does not consider these checks.

Read How to handle Accessibility Issues by Type for full instructions on how to fix automated and assisted checks with the Issues by type method

Issues by page

This method lets you view failing accessibility checks by the page they occur on. Visit Accessibility issues by page for full instructions on how to fix automated and assisted checks with the Issues by page method.

Fast track

This feature lets you view failling accessibilty checks by code, with the option to handle them individually or in bulk.

For full instructions, read:

• Accessibility Fast track navigation
• How to use Accessibility Fast track

Restore an ignored check

On the Issues by type and the Issues by page pages, select the Ignored checks tab above the list. Click Actions on the same row as the ignored check that you want to restore and select Restore this check. Only Admin users can restore an ignored check.

For full instructions, read How can I unignore an accessibility issue?

Accessibility guide

The Web Governance Accessibility guide provides guidelines on WCAG 2.0 and some common 2.1 requirements.

To navigate to the accessibility guide and view all of the available articles, read Accessibility Guide.

For more information, read About the accessibility guide.

History Center

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For more information, read Accessibility history.

Accessibility compliance score

The compliance score for the accessibility checks is calculated by using 100 (a perfect score) minus the number of errors found. This is then divided by the total number of accessibility checks.

For example:
If the compliance for individual accessibility checks is calculated by the:

total number of pages minus pages with issues

for the:

check total number of pages multiplied by 100

The system calculates the number of pages that fail the check as opposed to the total number of pages, regardless of the number of issues.

Accessibility reports

The available reports for Web Governance Accessibility are:

• Accessibility Summary report
• Accessibility Checks report
• Pages with Accessibility Issues report
• Classic Accessibility report
• Accessibility Guidelines report
• PDF Review report

1. Click Schedule this report (a calendar icon) on the same row as the report to receive the report as an email attachment. Multiple selection is allowed.
2. Click Open report (an eye icon) to get the newest report.
3. Click Report administration (a gear icon) to add other users to receive the report.

For more information, visit Accessibility reports.

Additional resources

For information on how to configure Web Governance Accessibility, read Accessibility setup instructions.