How to fix Accessibility issues by type

How to fix Accessibility issues by type

Navigation

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.
5. Select Issues by type. 

Landing page

The dashboard has the following features:

• Tabs
  • 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.
• A Search field
• A Filter button
• An Edit columns button
• An Export button
• The table has these columns:
  • Check: The name of the check
  • Level: The WCAG criteria level of the check
  • Criteria: The WCAG criteria designation of the check
  • Labels: Any labels that are applied to the check, as well as the option to add a new label
    • For more information, read Create and apply labels.
  • Role: The typical role within your organization that has the competence to fix the issue. For more information, read User roles.

  • Severity: The severity of the issue:

    • Low
    • Medium
    • High

    For more information, visit Issue priority.

• Pages: The number of pages that this failed check is present on.

User actions

You can do the following actions on this page:

• Select a tab to filter the results:
  • 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.
• Search: Type a search string into the search text box to locate a specific page title or URL.
• Filter: Click to select one or more filters:
  • Level: Use the arrow and select a level
  • Severity: Use the arrow and select a severity
  • Label: Use the arrow and select a label
  • Role: Use the arrow and selct a role
  • Save filters: Tick to save the filters
  • Click Apply filters, or Cancel to cancel the filter request.
• Edit columns: Click to add or remove table columns from the view.
• Export: Click to export the results. For more information and full instructions, visit How to do an Export.
• The table has these columns:
  • Check: Click the arrow to sort the column ascending or descending.Click the link to read more about the check, as well as a link to the corresponding Accessibility Guide article.
  • Level: Click the arrows to sort the column ascending or descending.
  • Criteria: Find out the WCAG criteria designation of the check.
  • Labels: Click in the labels area to manage labels for the selected page. For more information, read Create and apply labels.
  • Role: The typical role within your organization that has the competence to fix the issue. For more information, read User roles.

  • Severity: Click the arrows to sort the column ascending or descending. View the severity of the issue:

    • Low
    • Medium
    • High

    For more information, visit Issue priority.

  • Pages: Click the arrows to sort the column ascending or descending.The number of pages that this failed check is present on.

How to ignore a check

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.
5. Select Issues by type. 
6. Click the Assisted checks tab. 
   Automated checks are confirmed errors and cannot be ignored.
7. Click the check name.
8. Click the Snippets to fix tab.
9. Click the vertical dots in the Actions column and select Ignore on this page.

Use the option Ignore this check only when you have verified that it does not need to be fixed, or cannot be fixed. This causes the scan to ignore the issue anywhere on your domain that appears. This option can affect your accessibility score if used incorrectly.

How to restore an ignored check

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

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.
5. Select Issues by type. 
6. Click the Assisted checks tab. 
   Automated checks are confirmed errors and cannot be ignored.
7. Click the check name.
8. Click the Ignored snippets tab.
9. Click the vertical dots in the Actions column and select unignore.

For more information, visit Issue priority.