This section describes the steps that need to be done before you can use Acquia Web Governance Quality Assurance.
Web Governance Quality Assurance is included in all subscriptions and does not require special admin setup, except for the Readability function. For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability setup.
Scan the site at least once to gather data. For more information, visit Domain scan setup.
Instructions
This section provides information on how to find and correct quality assurance errors.
Click Quality Assurance (the checkbox icon), on the domain dashboard toolbar.
The Quality Assurance page opens.
Use the menu on the left to see more. The following sections provide information on each menu item.
Summary
Select Summary from the menu on the left to navigate to the Quality Assurance summary page.
The Quality Assurance Summary page opens. The sections on the landing page are:
Quality Assurance Check
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Readability
Quality Assurance: Readability
Content with QA Errors
Quality Assurance: Content with QA Errors
Quality Assurance Check
This section displays the number of pages affected by broken links, broken images, potential misspellings, and (confirmed) misspellings.
Select Unique Broken Links to navigate to the Broken Links page. Navigate between All broken links, Ignored, or Marked as fixed.
The columns display the following:
Broken Link: This column shows the full address of the broken link. For more information, visit:
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
This section displays the most significant quality assurance findings.
Select any item to navigate to the details page for the error.
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
This figure displays the percentage of overall quality assurance compliance achieved, as well as a circular chart that gives a visual percentage result. There is a breakdown of the total number of quality assurance issues and the total number of pages that have issues. A line graph displays the number of quality assurance issues and content with issues.
Quality Assurance Compliance: This figure displays the percentage of issues that your website is compliant with. The goal is to achieve 100% of the accessibility level selected.
The compliance score for the quality assurance check is calculated by dividing the total number of page errors found by the total number of page errors plus the total number of documents, multiplied by 100.
Quality Assurance reports
The available reports for the Quality Assurance module are:
Quality Assurance Report
Pages with Quality Assurance Errors Report
Broken Links Report
Misspellings Report
Pages with Misspellings Report
Potential Misspellings Report
Readability Score Report
Broken Links Per Page Report
Misspellings Per Page Report.
Click Schedule This Report (calendar icon) on the same row as the report to receive the report as an email attachment. Multiple selection is allowed.
Click Open Report (eye icon) to get the newest report.
Click Report Administration (gear icon) to add other users to receive the report.
Download the Chrome Extension: (Optional) Download and install the Acquia Web Governance extension. This extension is not required but is very useful to help identify content issues for easy handling.
Tip: Add the extension to the browser toolbar for easy access.
This section describes the steps that need to be done before you can use Acquia Web Governance Quality Assurance.
Web Governance Quality Assurance is included in all subscriptions and does not require special admin setup, except for the Readability function. For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability setup.
Scan the site at least once to gather data. For more information, visit Domain scan setup.
Instructions
This section provides information on how to find and correct quality assurance errors.
Click Quality Assurance (the checkbox icon), on the domain dashboard toolbar.
The Quality Assurance page opens.
Use the menu on the left to see more. The following sections provide information on each menu item.
Summary
Select Summary from the menu on the left to navigate to the Quality Assurance summary page.
The Quality Assurance Summary page opens. The sections on the landing page are:
Quality Assurance Check
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Readability
Quality Assurance: Readability
Content with QA Errors
Quality Assurance: Content with QA Errors
Quality Assurance Check
This section displays the number of pages affected by broken links, broken images, potential misspellings, and (confirmed) misspellings.
Select Unique Broken Links to navigate to the Broken Links page. Navigate between All broken links, Ignored, or Marked as fixed.
The columns display the following:
Broken Link: This column shows the full address of the broken link. For more information, visit:
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
This section displays the most significant quality assurance findings.
Select any item to navigate to the details page for the error.
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
This figure displays the percentage of overall quality assurance compliance achieved, as well as a circular chart that gives a visual percentage result. There is a breakdown of the total number of quality assurance issues and the total number of pages that have issues. A line graph displays the number of quality assurance issues and content with issues.
Quality Assurance Compliance: This figure displays the percentage of issues that your website is compliant with. The goal is to achieve 100% of the accessibility level selected.
The compliance score for the quality assurance check is calculated by dividing the total number of page errors found by the total number of page errors plus the total number of documents, multiplied by 100.
Quality Assurance reports
The available reports for the Quality Assurance module are:
Quality Assurance Report
Pages with Quality Assurance Errors Report
Broken Links Report
Misspellings Report
Pages with Misspellings Report
Potential Misspellings Report
Readability Score Report
Broken Links Per Page Report
Misspellings Per Page Report.
Click Schedule This Report (calendar icon) on the same row as the report to receive the report as an email attachment. Multiple selection is allowed.
Click Open Report (eye icon) to get the newest report.
Click Report Administration (gear icon) to add other users to receive the report.
Download the Chrome Extension: (Optional) Download and install the Acquia Web Governance extension. This extension is not required but is very useful to help identify content issues for easy handling.
Tip: Add the extension to the browser toolbar for easy access.
Add to dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (such as with proper nouns) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Note
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
Mark as fixed: Use this option when the issue is fixed on your website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans. For more information, visit:
Select Misspellings to navigate to the Misspellings page.
The columns show the following:
Word: The word that has been tagged as a misspelling.
PageCorrect: Click to use PageCorrect to quick-fix the issue. A dialog box opens. The misspelling is highlighted, enter the correct spelling into the text field and then click Save.
Add to the dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (for example, a product name) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Mark as fixed: When the issue is corrected in the HTML code for the page, mark it as fixed. It will be included in future scans.
Measure from
Network speed: The speed of the network.
Check frequency: The frequency of the check.
Important
The dashboard always shows data with the default profile selected. To change this, select a new profile (click the drop-down arrow to see the available profiles). Please be aware that changing the profile causes the numbers on all 3 sections inside the Performance feature to update accordingly.
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Response code: This is the error that the broken image link returns.
Type: This column names the type of error that is found.
Pages: This column shows how many pages are affected by the broken image link.
Action: Select this option to designate the issue with:
Mark as fixed: Select this option when the issue is fixed on the website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans.
Mark as ignored: Select this option:
If links are marked as dead when really they are not.
To ignore spelling issues on a single-page basis.
To ignore all other issues on a domain level.
Note
Ignored issues will not be factored into future scans, and this permanently affects the compliance score.
Add to dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (such as with proper nouns) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Note
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
Mark as fixed: Use this option when the issue is fixed on your website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans. For more information, visit:
Select Misspellings to navigate to the Misspellings page.
The columns show the following:
Word: The word that has been tagged as a misspelling.
PageCorrect: Click to use PageCorrect to quick-fix the issue. A dialog box opens. The misspelling is highlighted, enter the correct spelling into the text field and then click Save.
Add to the dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (for example, a product name) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Mark as fixed: When the issue is corrected in the HTML code for the page, mark it as fixed. It will be included in future scans.
Measure from
Network speed: The speed of the network.
Check frequency: The frequency of the check.
Important
The dashboard always shows data with the default profile selected. To change this, select a new profile (click the drop-down arrow to see the available profiles). Please be aware that changing the profile causes the numbers on all 3 sections inside the Performance feature to update accordingly.
Did not find what you were looking for?
If this content did not answer your questions, try searching or contacting our support team for further assistance.
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