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Ally Accessibility Report Overview

The overview shows you how content on your site is performing by month or year. It shows you the overall accessibility score, the total number of domains and content, as well as accessibility issues found.

Use the period type menu to view the report by month or year. Export the report for more details.

The Accessibility report Overview tab, with the Export button and the By month option in the dropdown menu highlighted.

Accessibility score

This line graph shows the accessibility score for all content over a select period of time. For example, if you select By month in the period type menu, you can compare performance over many months.

  • Year accessibility score: The average of the accessibility scores of all content items in that calendar year.

  • Tip

    If you are using Web Community Manager this is an academic year.

  • Month accessibility score: The average of the accessibility scores of all content items in that month.

The higher the score the better your content is performing. Point to a period on the line graph to see the scores.

The Ally icon for average accessibility score for webpages.
  • Web Pages: The average score for the website’s pages.

The Ally icon for average accessibility score for files.
  • Files: The average score for uploaded file content. For example, PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, images, and so on.

The Ally icon for combined accessibility score.
  • Overall: The combined accessibility score is a weighted average of scores from files and web pages scores.

Select a period to view more details for that period in the Total domains, Total files, Total pages, Overall accessibility score, and Accessibility issues reports. You can also select a new period in the current period menu.

Tip

With your keyboard, press Tab to navigate through each period on the graph. Press Spacebar to select it.

Accessibility score line graph showing Web Pages, Files, and Overall scores from March to December 2019. A tooltip for September 2019 displays Web Pages: 84%, Files: 58%, Overall: 83%. An arrow points to the selected September 2019 period in the current period menu below the graph.

Total domains, web pages, and files

View the total number of files on your site in the Total files report. View the number of domains and web pages on your site in the Total domains and Total pages reports. The Total domains report compares the current period to the period before.

In the Total files report, uses color to represent different file types. Point to a type to see the total number uploaded and an accessibility score for that type.

Tip

Screen reader users can press Tab to move through the hidden Total files table.

Select a new period from the Accessibility score line graph or current period menu to view a different period.

The current period shows circle graphs to represent Total domains (65), Total pages (132,742), Total files (13, 861) and Overall accessibility score. Total files uses color to represent different file types.

Overall accessibility score

View the accessibility score for the selected period.

Select a new period from the Accessibility score line graph or current period menu to view a different period.

Accessibility issues

See a list of accessibility issues found in the selected period. Select a new period from the Accessibility score line graph or current period menu to view a different period.

A list of Accessibility issues and the number of items that have the issue. The issue "HTML: The HTML content has contrast issues" is highlighted and above the number 438 tooltip text reads "438 out of 454 HTML documents have failed this check."

Issues are listed by frequency. Those at the top of the list are most frequent. Select Severe, Major, or Minor to filter the issues by severity. Severe issues should be addressed first.

At-a-glance you can determine basic information for each issue.

  • File type

  • Accessibility issue

  • Severity

  • Total number of items with the issue

Select an issue to see a full description of the issue and the domains impacted.

From the Domains with this accessibility issue table, you see the domain name, the number of items in the domain with the issue, and the accessibility score. Domains that have that issue the most are at the top of the list.

The Domains with this accessibility issue table, with the text "The HTML content has contrast issues" highlighted. Domains with this accessibilities issue are listed, with the number of items in each domain with the issue and the accessibility score of the domain.

Select Back to overview to return to the Ally accessibility report overview. Select the report period menu to compare domains with this issue in a different period.

Select a domain to see the items with this issue.

See the list of items with the accessibility issue and the accessibility score.

Select Back to issue to return to the Domains with this accessibility issue list. Select Export domain to download the individual domain report. Select a web page or file to see it. Select Go to domain to visit the domain homepage.

The full description for the issue "The document is scanned but not OCRed." The page notes that there are 2 items with this accessibility issue and lists them with their accessibility scores to the right of each item.