Introduction¶

This document provides instructions on how to do a quick scan and how the data that the quick scan provides is presented.

The Quick Scan consists of a light scan of your web page and provides near-instant feedback. Use the quick scan to check compliance as you prepare a web page for publication, or if you need a quick analysis of a page that is already published.

Quick scan is available through the Web Browser Extension and returns results for the following features and modules:

• Accessibility

• Data Privacy

• SEO

• Quality assurance Readability (LIX).

You will only see results for the features and modules above if they are enabled on your account.

Prerequisites¶

• An active account with the following modules enabled:

  • Accessibility

  • Data Privacy

  • SEO

  • Quality assurance Readability (LIX).

• Web browser extension installed

  • For more information, visit Handle accessibility issues with Web Browser Extension.

Instructions¶

This section provides instructions on how to start a Quick Scan.

1. Click Quick Scan on the web browser extension toolbar.
    

   

2. Select the accessibility guideline you wish to use.

   

3. Click Start Quick Scan. The scan results appear in the web browser extension when the scan is complete.

   

Quick scan progress¶

Track the progress of the scan on the web browser extension. The progress steps that are shown for the quick scan are:

• HTML capture

• Sending to API

• Scanning

Quick scan checks¶

A Quick scan includes the following checks:

• Accessibility: All checks of type Error in the selected accessibility guideline.
• Data Privacy:

  • CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER

  • FINANCIAL_ACCOUNT_NUMBER

  • GENERIC_ID

  • IBAN_CODE

  • MEDICAL_RECORD_NUMBER

  • PASSPORT

  • SWIFT_CODE

  • VEHICLE_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER.

• SEO:

  • seo_missing_title

  • seo_missing_h1

  • seo_multiple_h1

  • seo_missing_subheadlines

  • seo_missing_alt

  • seo_no_follow

  • seo_no_index

  • seo_missing_meta_keyword

  • seo_missing_meta_description

  • seo_too_short_meta_description

  • seo_too_long_meta_description.

• Readability: See the readability score, based on the LIX method.

Quick Scan in Drupal¶

For information about the setup and quick scan from within Drupal, visit:

• Quick Scan in Drupal setup instructions

• How to do the Quick Scan in Drupal

Additional resources¶

Troubleshooting¶

If the page you are trying to scan is larger than 20 MB, the scan stops and the message The page is too big for Quick Scan appears on the display.

To scan larger pages, use the Single-page scan feature.

For more information, visit Single-page scan.

FAQ¶

Where can I use Quick scan?¶

You can scan any page that you are able to view in your browser, including draft, preview, and staging pages.

The quick scan uses the HTML code that is captured by the web browser extension, and forwards that data to the API to do the scan.

Where is the Quick scan data stored?¶

The data from the quick scan is not synchronized with the database. The scan results are not saved.