Purpose
The accessibility score measures how accessible and inclusive a website is for all users, including those with disabilities. Acquia Optimize helps agency managers identify and address accessibility issues that lower this score, such as broken links, missing alt text, and non-descriptive link text. Correcting these issues ensures compliance with accessibility standards and improves user experience for all visitors.
When to Use Acquia Optimize to Review and Improve your Website’s Accessibility Score
- During weekly routine accessibility audits to ensure all pages remain compliant.
- After making updates to the website that may impact accessibility (e.g., adding new images, changing navigation).
- When specific issues are flagged, like broken links or images missing alt text, which impact the accessibility score.
- To conduct a thorough, periodic check of the entire site, helping catch any issues that may affect usability for people using assistive technologies.
How to Locate your Site Accessibility Score
You can easily see your sites accessibility score within the "Accessibility" section of your Acquia Optimize Dashboard page. This is also where you can locate the current failing checks that need to be reviewed and fixed to help improve your score.
The target goal for our site accessibility is 84% and to help you improve your site score faster is by using the Fast Track feature to go through and review the failed checks that are having the biggest negative impact on your score.
How to improve your Accessibility Score using Fast Track
To do this you will go to the fast track within the "Accessibility" page and when you select it a pop up window will appear with a list of current checks that have the biggest impact that need to be reviewed
Next you will select the Pages number button to start reviewing each page to see if any fixes for this check can be done.
A new pop up window will appear with the list of all of the pages with the failing check and selecting the magnifying glass icon on the right will help pull up the page on your site and the specific spot where the failing check is for you to review.
If there are no fixes that can be identified or the fix is not possible then within the "Action" button on the fast track page you can mark it as "Review"
