Web Governance - May, 2025

Extension: Improved Highlighting Functionality

Optimize has simplified and improved the way highlighting works in the Optimize Extension to deliver a more consistent and reliable user experience.

Previously, when users clicked the Highlight button a transparent overlay layer was applied across the entire website, with highlighted borders and an orange background. The border colors varied by module, and the implementation often conflicted with page or CMS styles.

Now, highlights are applied directly to the target element with a uniform red border, regardless of module. This streamlined approach reduces complexity, minimizes errors, and ensures cleaner compatibility with website styles.

Resumed Rollout of Accessibility Checks Update

Optimize has resumed the periodic update to Accessibility checks, which enhances the accuracy and quality of Accessibility scan results.

As part of this update:

• This can cause changes to your compliance scores due to improved detection logic.

  Visit the detailed changelog for full transparency.

• The update is currently enabled for 40% of customers globally and will be rolled out to all customers within the next two weeks.

Optimize continuously monitors performance and scan quality as the rollout progresses.

Extension

✔ Fixed an issue where Statistics data in the Extension did not always match the data shown in the web app.
✔ Resolved a bug that caused Readability scores to not appear when users did a scan on external pages.
✔ Fixed an issue where ignored Accessibility violations continued to appear in the issues list.
✔ Implemented error handling for policy highlights with the use of limit and exclude rules.
✔ Resolved a problem where Quick Scan did not consistently use refreshed tokens.

Statistics

✔ Fixed an issue where IP Exclusions were not applied correctly to domain groups.