Introduction

The Web Governance Remediation Companion improves conventional accessibility remediation and transforms the workflow into an engaging and efficient process.

Benefits

The Remediation Companion uses AI to identify issues and generate solutions. A game mechanics approach provides a logical workflow.

Additional benefits include:

• Substantial cost savings on each website remediation
• Reduced remediation time
• Reduced legal risk
• Better accessibility for all users, including those with disabilities
• Improved SEO through semantic markup and proper structure

How Remediation Companion works

• Uses accessibility violations detected by the Web Governance scan.
  • Pulls in relevant details such as location, type, and severity.
• Presents each issue in context.
  • Displays the location of the issue on the page.
  • Highlights the affected element, such as an image, link, heading, or form field.
  • Provides a plain-language explanation of the problem and its impact.
• Offers AI-powered solution options.
  • Generates at least one suggested fix for each failed check.

• Allows you to select the AI-generated solution or resolve the issue through another method.

• Applies and reuses your selected responsibilities.
  • Uses these choices to make future suggestions more consistent and efficient.

How to use the Remediation Companion

• Install the Web Governance Browser Extension and configure it to your domain.

  For instructions, visit Web Governance Browser Extension setup.

• Open Web Governance Accessibility and select View in browser extension on the row for the page or issue where you want to work.

  For more information, visit Accessibility navigation.

  Alternatively, use your browser to navigate to the page where you want to work and open the browser extension on that page.

• In the browser extension, select AI remediation (the magic wand icon).

  The system displays a personalized welcome message and a list of responsibilities to choose from. The available responsibilities are:

  • Content Authoring
  • Visual Design
  • User Experience (UX) design
  • Front-End Development

• Select the responsibilities that you have in your organization and select Save responsibilities.

  The system closes the Welcome window and opens the Issues view. 

  The system displays the five issues with the highest priority for the selected responsibilities. The issues that are displayed are prioritized by severity, issue count, and time since detection.

  Tip: Select all responsibilities to view the five with the highest overall priority.

• Select an issue to expand it.

  The section reveals the following categories:

  • What's wrong? Expand this field for detailed information about the failing check.
    • Select HTML to open the HTML for the page. The system highlights the failing code snippet.
  • How to fix? Expand this field for customized step-by-step instructions on how to fix the issue.

Demo

Visit the Remediation Companion demo.

Additional resources

For more information, visit:

• Web Governance Browser Extension setup
• How to use the browser extension
• Handle accessibility issues with the browser extension

Remediation Companion

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions