Axe Monitor navigation can be tricky to get a hold of at first. As it works in a top-down effect and some sections are only found within the pages themselves and not within the navigation. This rundown will hopefully help you understand what each of the sections contains.

Home

This is the landing page when first logging in. By default it will show you your favorite projects. By default, all projects that you have created will automatically be favorited. If you are not associated with if you have not favorited any projects, this table will appear blank.

Here you have:

• A quick overview of accessibility scores of the projects you are part of.
• Any issues that have been assigned to you and their levels.
• Quickly visiting your organization dashboard.
• Managing previous or currently running scans.
• Creating a new project.
• FIREFOX BROWSER ONLY: Downloading the FireEyes II plugin for Firefox.

Dashboard

There are three levels of dashboards which represent the three levels of the software:

• System: Overview of all Organizations you are part of.
• Organization: Overview of all projects within one Organization.
• Project: The overview of all issues within one particular project.

System Dashboard

The System dashboard gives an overview of all the organizations you are part of. It will give the overall score of all organizations, as well each individual organization score. It also allows you track changes within the system by selecting a date range trend.

By clicking into any of the organizations, you are brought to the dashboard of that Organization.

Organization Dashboard

The Organization Dashboard overviews all of the projects to which you are associated with within a single Organization. If you are part of multiple Organizations, you can utilize the internal dropdown at the top to navigate between your Organizations.

Much like the System Dashboard, it gives an overview of the score of the pages, as well as the trend of the projects over a selected date range. From here you can dive down into each of the projects dashboards.

Project Dashboard

The Project Dashboard is the most important when it comes to learning and understanding the issues within your particular website. Here you will see:

• The score of your website based on your previous scans.
• How many issues per pages.
• The total issues and the range of their priorities.
• The specific types of issues and their occurrence within the scans.
• How many scans are being utilized in the project?
• How many pages have been scanned, ignored, and processed?

More on how to read this data can be found under Scan Results in the Project Dashboard. For sharing this information with team members and external Rutgers staff, visit Exporting Data.

Pages

The pages that were scanned for your project can all be found within the Pages section. The output will all depend on how deep the scan was, or the limits within the domain.

Here you are able to search through the pages scanned within your project and see specifically how many issues are within each page. This page also allows you to search and filter through the pages for specific URLs, priority of issues, or if they are associated with a group of users.

More on how to utilize this information can be found in Viewing Page Issues.

Issues

The Issues section contains all of the issues that axe Monitor found within your project during its most recent scan. The issues can be sorted by URL, severity, labels, groups, users, type, assignment, etc.

Here you are also able to create issues, or upload locally scanned issues from axe Expert for Chrome or FireEyes II for Firefox (contact the Accessibility Team for latest version of FireEyes II).

More on how to utilize this information will be under Viewing All Issues.

Scans

 

 

The Scans section is specifically dedicated to the scans set for your project and are to be maintained by the Accessibility Liaison or an assigned member of your team.

Your project may include one or multiple scans, dependent on the types of scans run for your project. More on how to run and utilize scans are hosted under How to Run Scans.

Settings

Updating or changing the settings within your Organization or Project is dependent on if you are an administrator or user of a particular project. There is a myriad of different ways to change your settings, many of which may be unneeded for your workflow. To keep this guide short, we will only overview what each item is in basic means. More detailed breakdowns are available in the Deque axe Monitor User Guide.

Organization Settings

The Organization settings will be visible to all users, but certain settings will only be available to assigned administrators. The above screenshot is an example of the basic users navbar.

For Organization Users

• Groups: Create working groups that can be assigned to different projects within the organization. By default, the Web Accessibility Team creates an overall “Users” group based on your user submission, and an “Accessibility Team” to keep our team members connected to your projects.
• Projects: Shows a list of projects within the Organization that you have been added to.
• Custom Settings:
  • Standard: Shows standard custom settings generated for the Organization.
  • Rules: Shows custom rules generated for the Organization.
  • Priorities: Allows re-prioritizing and changing of severity of specific scan rules. These have been edited by the Web Accessibility Team and should not be changed.
  • Messages: Allows creation of custom-descriptions for scan results. These have been edited by the Web Accessibility Team and should not be changed.

For Organization Admins

• Groups: Create working groups that can be assigned to different projects within the organization. By default, the Web Accessibility Team creates an overall “Users” group based on your user submission, and an “Accessibility Team” to keep our members connected to your projects.
• Projects: Shows a list of projects within the Organization that you have been added to and allows creation of Custom Project Attributes for exported reports.
• Reports: Allows exporting results of selected projects within Organization for a particular time period.
  Testing Standards: Used to add standards or rule-sets and specify the rules to be utilized for the scan. Custom rule sets can be created and uploaded as well. WCAG 2.0 Level AA is mandatory for Rutgers and should not be disabled.
• Domains: For adding domains to also be included in scans.
• Scan Settings: Shows and allows editing of the specific items that the scan can go through. This includes files to be included or excluded, URLs to have or be ignored, spider scan limits, unique JavaScript code, etc. These may be changed if your website has special circumstances to allow change. Please contact Web Accessibility Team before editing this page.
• Page Groups: Allows creation of group expressions for your Organization to be used in projects.
• Scripts: Shows a list of scripts being utilized by all Projects within your Organization.
• Scope Definitions: Shows a list of Scope settings being utilized by all Projects within your Organization.

Project Settings

 

The Project settings will be visible to all users, but majority of settings are only editable by assigned administrators.

For Project Users

• Users: See groups currently added to project.
• Policies: Shows Project Analysis settings for the scans.
• Issue Tracker: Shows if project has been connected to an issue tracking system.
• Scan Settings: Shows specific settings to which the scan spiders through the website.
• Page Groups: List of group expressions for your Project.
• Domains: Shows list of domains used in scan.
• Scripts: Shows a list of scripts being utilized by the Project.
• Scope Definitions: Shows a list of Scope settings being utilized by your Project.

For Project Admins

• Users: Allows adding of User Groups created with the Organization Settings. Most of these will have been generated by the Web Accessibility Team.
• Testing Standards: Used to add standards or rule-sets and specify the rules to be utilized for the scan. Custom rule sets can be created and uploaded as well. WCAG 2.0 Level AA is mandatory for Rutgers and should not be disabled.
• Issue Tracker: Allows connecting of issue tracking system like JIRA or HP Quality Center to create tickets for scan issues.
• Scan Settings: Shows and allows editing of the specific items that the scan can go through. This includes files to be included or excluded, URLs to have or be ignored, spider scan limits, unique JavaScript code, etc. These may be changed if your website has special circumstances to allow change. Please contact the Web Accessibility team before editing this page.
• Page Groups: Allows creation of group expressions for your Project.
• Domains: For adding domains to also be included in scans.
• Scripts: Shows a list of scripts being utilized by the Project.
• Scope Definitions: Shows a list of Scope settings being utilized by your Project.