Introduction

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.

Ignore check

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.

Ignore code snippet

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

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

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

For instructions on how to use the browser extension to handle accessibility issues, visit Handle accessibility issues with the browser extension.

How to ignore an accessibility check