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Web Governance
Acquia Web Governance product overview
Acquia Web Governance provides the tools you need in order to deliver a superior and inclusive user experience across your digital presence.
This document provides information about the Web Governance suite modules, features, and add-ons.
Web Governance History Center tracks changes across domains and modules and provides an overview of changes over time. All of the information collected here is available for export.
For more information, visit History Center.
Web Governance Report Center contains the contents of every scan, sorted and organized into different levels of reports. Admin users can assign reports to users from here.
For more information, visit Report Center.
Web Governance Quality Assurance (QA) is included in every subscription. It finds and displays QA issues so that you can quickly identify and repair them.
QA Highlights include:
Locate and repair content with quality errors
Locate and repair broken links
Locate broken images
Locate and repair misspellings
View site and page readability levels
Visit the Quality Assurance clickable demo.
Web Governance Quality Assurance requires the script.
For more information, visit Quality Assurance introduction.
Web accessibility refers to the concept that websites and website content should be accessible to anyone, regardless of how they use the internet. The Accessibility feature identifies errors on your website and helps you to fix them. This enables all visitors to use your website, regardless of their physical limitations.
Some examples of alternate ways that your visitors might use the internet:
Screen readers
Adaptive technology (such as eye-tracking)
Audio-based such as verbal transcripts
Subtitles for audio content
Acquia Web Governance Accessibility helps you make your website compliant with WCAG 2.1 & 2.2 A, AA, and AAA guidelines to make the website accessible for a wider audience.
The specifically developed tools and technologies help you improve your website to aid the perception, understanding, contribution, navigation, and interaction for visitors with a disability.
Visit the Web Accessibility clickable demo.
Web Governance Accessibility requires the script.
For more information, visit Accessibility introduction.
PDF remediation by Allyant is available as an add-on. You can order accessibility remediation services for the most common accessibility issues in the PDF files, including the proper tagging of images, tables, forms, and other non-textual objects.
Review: Scan PDFs from the Accessibility module to see where your site stands in terms of PDF accessibility and flag inaccessible documents.
Report: Receive a complete accessibility report detailing areas of non-compliance and recommendations on how to address them.
Remediate: Order PDF remediation on PDF files with accessibility errors.
Replace the existing documents with the remediated documents to make your website accessible to all users and compliant with ADA Title III, WCAG 2.1, HHS, PDF/UA, the EU Web Accessibility Directive, and other accessibility standards.
For more information, visit PDF remediation quote.
When the mobile accessibility scan is enabled, there is an additional scan of the website to simulate how it renders on a mobile device. This data picks up device-specific code that only loads when a website opens on a mobile device. Based on this mobile rendition of the website, 2 additional checks are done in addition to the accessibility checks that already run on the website.
Essentially, these 2 checks determine if a web page is properly responsive. Responsiveness is a basic requirement for having an accessible website. The checks are displayed in the user interface and can be filtered out of the other checks. They are also displayed in the Browser Extension.
Web Governance Search Engine Optimization (SEO) highlights improvement opportunities that exist across website pages and assigns a priority level. Click any issue for a summary of the recommendation.
Find SEO errors such as:
Missing H1 tags
META description improvement suggestions
Broken links
Visit the SEO clickable demo.
For more information, visit SEO introduction.
Acquia Web Governance Performance helps you improve website load speed and performance. View statistics on how the website performs for visitors in different locations, on different devices, and that connect with different network speeds. The scan automatically identifies and provides feedback in the interface about elements that slow down the website. This add-on uses Google's Lighthouse API.
For more information, visit Performance introduction.
Web Governance Prioritized Content allows users to track technical and non-technical website content. This module categorizes and prioritizes issues by the number of issues found, the number of views received, and the number of links that lead to particular pages. Highlights include:
Displays your content issues categorized into high, medium, and low priority based on the number of issues found.
Displays the number of views received.
Displays the number of links that lead to particular pages.
Lets you apply custom labels to issues found by the scan on your content.
Easily navigate to the page that needs attention and view the errors. The system provides the ability to view the source code and find errors directly in the code of the page.
For more information, visit Prioritized content.
Web Governance Policies lets you set up custom policies and rules. These help you to ensure that all website content creators follow the same guidelines and sends alerts if the content is outdated or incorrect. The feature includes a large collection of pre-made policies, as well as the option to create custom policies manually or with the Policy Assistant.
To add Web Governance Policies to your plan, contact your sales representative.
Visit the Policies clickable demo.
For more information, visit Policies.
Web Governance Heartbeat lets you monitor your website in real-time 24/7. Get alerts when your website experiences slow response time or downtime. Schedule reports or automated alerts to be sent to assigned users when your site is down or takes too long to respond.
Heartbeat measures the response time for your site and details any incidents of downtime, to ensure that your team can quickly respond to problems and avoid any potential loss of business.
Additionally, you can set up exemptions for instances of planned downtime, such as server maintenance.
For more information, visit Heartbeat introduction.
Web Governance Data Privacy automates your management of personal data with a scan of the website text (as opposed to HTML). It uses Google’s Data Loss Prevention API to analyze the data. When the scan is done, the website data is sent directly to the Google API for analysis.
Data Privacy identifies potential data privacy issues on your domain. View the scan results by severity level and quickly see the number of pages that are affected by the issue.
Data Privacy is based on Google's Cloud Data Loss Prevention API, and is updated when the API is updated.
Visit the Data Privacy clickable demo.
For more information, visit Data Privacy introduction.
Web Governance Inventory keeps track of the location of all of your website assets such as docs, links, email addresses, code snippets, and more, and provides an overview of their accessibility and SEO status. This ensures that your web team can quickly address important content problems that can affect the visitor experience.
The inventory contains all of the data that is identified by the scan, broken down into a variety of categories such as CSS, HTML pages, or frames.
Click further into each category and export lists such as HTML pages, documents, links, and any forward-facing email addresses.
For more information, visit Inventory introduction.
The Consent Manager add-on is an easy-to-use website and cookie consent management tool. This powerful tool helps you make your website compliant with local cookie and consent regulations including GDPR and CCPA, while also meeting accessibility requirements.
Key features
Custom and accessible branding
Create and customize a cookie banner to match your website branding that also meets accessibility standards for color contrast. Visitors can accept or reject cookie categories, view the company cookie policy, and more.
Consent analytics
Provides real-time indicators on cookie acceptance rates.
Consent log
Visitor cookie consent is properly and anonymously logged, as required by GDPR.
For more information, visit Consent Manager introduction.
The Web Governance Browser Extension lets non-admin users quickly view and repair website issues. Many of the same sections from the app are available within the browser extension, including SEO, accessibility, quality assurance, policies, statistics, heatmaps, and more. The extension can also be used to view certain things about external websites.
For more information, visit Web Governance Browser Extension.
Web Governance PageAssist is a personalization toolbar that makes a website more user-friendly and visually accessible for your visitors. PageAssist allows visitors to change the appearance of your website to suit their individual preferences.
Key features
Lets your website visitors make custom visual adjustments to suit their own unique requirements. Your website visitors can:
For more information, visit PageAssist introduction.
Web Governance PageCorrect helps your users find and repair quality assurance and accessibility issues on their website directly, without the need to log in to a content management system (CMS).
Ensure that your website is free of quality assurance and accessibility errors with the ability to fix website issues such as broken links, misspellings, and accessibility problems directly from within the platform itself. The changes are immediately reflected on your website.
The interface enables your team members with no coding knowledge to make updates to your site with a cosmetic overlay.
For more information, visit PageCorrect introduction.
Web Governance Heatmaps provides a warm-to-cold color overlay that shows you how your visitors interact with your pages. This allows you to identify problem areas and make targeted improvements to ensure a better visitor experience.
Choose between 3 different heat map types:
Move: Shows where desktop visitors moved across the page with the mouse.
Click: Shows the points on the page where visitors tapped or clicked.
Scroll: Shows how far visitors scrolled down the pages.
For more information, visit Heatmaps introduction.
Industry average is an industrial benchmark model that measures the overall health of your website against your industry standards. It allows users to compare their website compliance scores for Quality Assurance, Accessibility, and SEO against the industry average. The industry average score automatically identifies areas in your website that can be improved, and provides you with simple steps to make your website stand out in your industry.
The Industry average score is the average score within the industry. The Industry average score appears in the Diagnostics section for the relevant modules:
Quality assurance
Accessibility
SEO
For more information, visit Industry average.
For more information, visit Mobile accessibility scan.
The audit log shows changes made to the website with the suite. Only admin users have access to the audit log.
The audit log tracks the following:
Date: The date of the change
User ID: The identifier for the user account that made the change
Domain: The domain that was changed
Module: The module that was used to make the change
Target: The issue that the change was targeted to fix
Identifier: The edited code snippet
Explanation: If any, hover the cursor over the (i) icon to view the reason the user made the changes
Show Details/See Changes: View more details about the changes
For more information, visit Audit log.
Statistics overviews are available in the main summary. View a number of useful analytics for insights on visitor entry and exit pages, bounce rates, session times, and page visitor details.
Web Governance Statistics tracks the following:
For more information, visit Statistics introduction.
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For more information, visit Mobile accessibility scan.
The audit log shows changes made to the website with the suite. Only admin users have access to the audit log.
The audit log tracks the following:
Date: The date of the change
User ID: The identifier for the user account that made the change
Domain: The domain that was changed
Module: The module that was used to make the change
Target: The issue that the change was targeted to fix
Identifier: The edited code snippet
Explanation: If any, hover the cursor over the (i) icon to view the reason the user made the changes
Show Details/See Changes: View more details about the changes
For more information, visit Audit log.
Statistics overviews are available in the main summary. View a number of useful analytics for insights on visitor entry and exit pages, bounce rates, session times, and page visitor details.
Web Governance Statistics tracks the following:
For more information, visit Statistics introduction.
Web Governance is accessible through Launchpad. For more information, visit Accessing Acquia Products through Launchpad.
If this content did not answer your questions, try searching or contacting our support team for further assistance.