Introduction

This option on the left menu in Acquia Web Governance Accessibility displays accessibility issues according to type of issue.

Navigation

Select Issues by type from the left menu. The following tabs are available:

• 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.

The table displays the following information:

• Check: The name of the check. For more information, visit Accessibility checks.
• Level: The WCAG criteria level of the check. For more information, visit WCAG compliance.
• Labels: Displays any labels applied to the check, as well as the option to add a new label. For more information, visit Create and apply labels.
• Role: The typical role within your organization with the competence to fix the issue. For more information, visit User roles.

• Severity; The severity of the issue, you can choose to sort this column as per your preference.

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

  For more information, visit Issue priority.

• Pages: The number of pages that this failed check is present on.
• Action: Click to expand the options for this list item, select from the following:
  • Ignore this check
  • Restore this check: Only admin users can do this.

Issues by type

This section provides instructions on how to view and handle failling accessibilty checks by type of check.

Fix automated checks

This category contains the failed checks found by the scan. Issues of this type are confirmed errors that must be fixed.

• From the left menu, select Issues by type.
• Select the Automated checks tab.
• Click on a failing automated check.
• Fix the issue in the HTML code. 
  Web Governance includes the Accessibility Guide, a series of documents that provide a deep dive into each check. In the corresponding Accessibility Guide article for the check, you can find information about why it is important and how to fix it. The link to the Accessibility Guide article that corresponds to the failing check is at the top of the page.
• To view the issue on the page, select Extension on the same row as an issue.
• After the issue is fixed, use the kebab menu on the same row as the issue and select one of the following options:
  • Mark as fixed on this page: Use this option when the error is fixed. This removes the error from the results list for the page. If the issue is not fixed properly, it is flagged again on the next scan.
  • Mark as fixed on all pages: Use this option when the error is fixed on all pages of the domain. This removes the error from the results list for the page. If the issue is not fixed properly, it is flagged again on the next scan.
  • Ignore on this page: Use this option when you are sure that the check is incorrectly flagged or cannot be fixed. This option instructs the scanner to ignore the check on this page.
  • Ignore on all pages: Use this option when you are sure that the check is incorrectly flagged or cannot be fixed. This option instructs the scanner to ignore the check for all pages of the domain.
• Start a new scan and repeat the steps above to verify that you have sufficiently fixed the issues.

Fix assisted checks

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.

• From the left menu, select Issues by type.
• Select the Assisted checks tab.
• Click on a failing assisted check.
• Review the issue. For more infornation, visit How to review an accessibility issue.

• Fix the issue in the HTML code. 

  Web Governance includes the Accessibility Guide, a series of documents that provide a deep dive into each check. In the corresponding Accessibility Guide article for the check, you can find information about why it is important and how to fix it. The link to the Accessibility Guide article that corresponds to the failing check is at the top of the page.

• To view the issue on the page with the Web Governance Browser Extension, select Extension on the same row as an issue.
• Use the kebab menu on the same row as the issue and select one of the following options:
  • Mark as fixed on this page: Use this option when the error is fixed. This issue will not be flagged again for this page by subsequent scans.
  • Mark as fixed on all pages: Use this option when the error is fixed on all pages of the domain. This issue will not be flagged again for pages on this domain on subsequent scans.
  • Ignore on this page: Use this option when you are sure that the check is incorrectly flagged or cannot be fixed. This tells the scanner to ignore the check on this page.
  • Ignore on all pages: Use this option when you are sure that the check is incorrectly flagged or cannot be fixed. This tells the scanner to ignore the check on all pages of the domain.
• Start a new scan and repeat the steps above to verify that you have sufficiently fixed the issues.

Restore a check

Use the option Restore a check when a check that has been previously set to Ignored should be considered by subsequent scans.

Accessibility: Issues by type