[3Play Media Captioner Test] [3Play Media Captioner Test] [Grace] Everyone Welcome, everyone. We are going to get started in just a couple of minutes. You can go ahead and turn your video on, Sailesh. [Grace] Hello everyone. Thanks for joining. We're going to get to our presentation in just a few more minutes. We are going going to wait for our attendees to join. Alright. It is 2 after the top of the hour. I think we will go ahead and get started, so thank you so much for coming. Welcome to the refresher series where we will be taking a deep dive into advanced scan setup. 

My name is grace and I am a part of Deque marketing team. A few housekeeping items to share. For captions today, you can use the caption module located at the bottom of your Zoom screen and I will also be sharing a link in the chat to follow along with captions from a separate window. About midway through the presentation we will have a stopping point where you can ask questions and we will also have about 15 minutes or more at the end of the presentation for questions as well, so if you have any questions go ahead and put those in the queue and a module. 

Just a reminder, we will be recording this and sharing it with all registrants so be on the lookout for the presentation recording as well as the slides themselves to review within the next week or so. And this is part of a series so you can expect more sessions like this in the future, so be on the lookout for additional invitations to future seminars. With that, I will hand things over to our presenters. [Sailesh] Thank you, grace. I am a customer success strategist with Deque . [Wes] Hi, everybody. I am an accessibility product specialist here at Deque and we will be your presenters for today. 

[Sailesh] Both of us work on the customer success team, and it is possible that some of you attended a training session or an implementation with one of us. Unless you've been a long time user, in which case it would have been a different set of people. I have been on the customer success team for two years now. All right, so let's get started. So for some of you, working on accessibility initiative for your company may only be part of your responsibilities. You may also -- some of you might not be accessing acts monitor on a daily basis as part of your responsibilities. 

Of course these might depend upon your individual roles. It also might have been sometime since you attended a training session, so this series from Deque will help you brush up on axe monitor skills. It is a little bit different from the presentation, the introduction that you get at the time of axe monitor implementation in the sense that this will probably , you know, make deep dives into certain features of axe monitor for certain screens, so there will be deeper discussion of specific focus topics during this session. So, some of the material that was covered in the introductory implementation is also going to get in through advanced features , and some of these features may not really be advanced in the sense. 

They may be underutilized or underexplored . We will also be touching upon changes that might happen overtime in the UI as we go along. Of course, there may be separate sessions, special sessions that might be held where there are major changes of UI . All right? So moving on to the next slide, so expectations for this session. We do not expect that you access X monitor, but we believe that all of you do have access to axe monitor or are able to sign in and have the ability to create projects . So being an organization administrator and the ability to actually create a project is important. 

And also, I believe that You have familiarity with the project dashboard. I think Wes has the project dashboard up on the screen. So the project dashboard is where you start your review from , whatever you want to scan. That's the first page or the screen with the output of a project, so it shows the project score, the axis, how many pages were scanned, and the breakup of those critical pages. And also, you have all of the issues summarized by different categories , forms, color, etcetera. So that is the project dashboard. OK, so next slide we get to A refresher. 

I'm going to briefly cover what we have. It is a road map that we have planned, but what drives this? So the goals for this essentially are ax monitor as the name suggests is a product, a tool that helps you monitor and track accessibility of digital properties. Many teams are able to leverage utilization of acts monitor when development teams and teams are responsible for remediation actually use the output of axe monitor. And some of you really do that . In this process, there could be some challenges that you face. And what happens is, when projects are defined loosely or when projects are defined , it's possible that it is difficult to identify or zero in on specific issues. 

Also, when you have pages that get repeated across projects, when the same pages get scanned for different projects, you know, there is a repetition. Also within a project if the same issue gets repeated multiple times and not isolated, again, there's that noise -- it becomes difficult for you to focus on things that you can quickly fix and move ahead with. So with this , the first two sessions in this series We'll cover that. Today's session advances on the setting of process, and will cover how you can, you know, constrain or set the scope of projects to scan exactly what you want. 

You may eliminate pages that might not be within the scope of your work or may belong to some other team . The next session, session #2 , we'll touch upon how to isolate common issues , how to set up page groups, and such. The third session will be on axe reports, the reporting tool which you can access from within acts monitor. You have an item that says view reports, and it supports the graphical summarization. So, that session will cover how one can actually configure reports, how to get axe reports . And the fourth session is going to be information management , so how one can export data from axe monitor, acts reports. 

How one can share information from the two. That's what that session will cover. So for now, these are the four sessions that are planned, there will be many more. These sessions will typically be about 60-90 minutes long. This one is going to be a 90 minute session. So, so today's session is advanced features. So it is going to get into the scan setup process and then it is going to look at 2 specific areas -- the settings of the project, there is an item called scan settings , so it's going to get into that screen and cover that in detail, and it's going to get into the scan menu , the item in the menu bar just before settings, so it's going to look at that section of the tool. 

We will be getting into how to edit scans as part of this session. Also, the last item will probably be how you share settings across an organization, and when you would like to really do that. So, that's going to be this session. So let's get on with the content of this session, that is to set up the scan process. The scan setup process is typically an iterative approach . What I mean is, you put in a URL and you start scanning, but you don't leave it at that. After the scan runs it is important that one looks at the results of the scan from the project dashboard , that they just said was scanned, download a CSV, look at the pages that were pulled in by the scan whether you expected them to be there or whether you think that some of those pages should actually belong to a different project and such. 

So that kind of analysis should happen before you actually stabilize the settings for a particular scan. Also, you might from the project dashboard look at issues that are reported and determine that there are some issues that need -- that tend to be repetitive and it might help to set up templates for those issues. So you have to look at that and, initially, the scan could be a one-level scan. After you look at the pages that have been pulled any issues that you might -- you might extend the scope to other levels. It's only after you determine that what is being reported is exactly what you want, you will realize that, yes, this seems to be the stable configuration for this scan, and then you might want to schedule it to run on a weekly or a monthly basis. 

So that is the iterative process for setting up a scan. So actually, let's now get into the demonstration, so what we have is a demo-side Sample website, something very simple that has 15-20 pages or so. So it is a fictitious site with a few issues, just for demonstration purposes. Imagine that this website Was 200 pages or 2000 pages, but for now just for efficiency and for time we have a small website of 20 pages. So that's what we are going to be using in the course of this demo. So the scan setup process, let's begin by actually setting up a scan. 

I am going to request Wes to begin that by actually trying to set up a scan for a particular URL. Wes, can you go online? Could you run a scan of that ? [Wes] Absolutely. I am on the home screen. What I am going to do is create an organization project , but I will make sure I am in the correct organization here at the top during this process. Input a name, I will put in test or Mo . What I will then do is paste the URL into the scan start URL field , the domain is automatically going to be loaded based on the start URL that I input . 

For today's purposes I am going to scan the start page only, and then I am going to click create. One thing to note is that when I created that project with the option selected for basic scan it is going to start that scan automatically for the project I just set up. Alternatively, if I wanted to change some of the settings we are going to cover today or add project admins I have the option to click custom scan and then instead of taking us directly to the activity scan screen, it is going to take us to the project settings screen, which we will get to momentarily. 

[Sailesh] So right now it must be showing the activity screen. So as the task progresses, right at the bottom of the table, the bottom of the page will be a table where the pages that have been scanned will be properly won by 1. It will show you the status of whether the page was scanned or completed , or it was ignored because it was excluded for some other purpose. [Wes] So the scanning has completed, and what you will notice is that a URL and what you will that is not the start URL that I indicated has been scanned, and it actually has been ignored based on the scope because it is outside of the scope of the domain of the start URL that I input. 

Going to the dashboard for this project, there are 0 pages complete, 0 pages failed, and all pages there is one zero percent accessibility score, so why is this happening? What is the reason for an incomplete scan? What I will do is, I will load this URL as a start URL just to make sure it takes me to that page and what you will notice is, loading the paychecks online URL into the browser it has redirected me to my browser, paychex.com . So this is outside of the scope of the scan domain and what you will notice is that back on the dashboard, all pages, it will show that this particular URL is listed here. 

It did not get scanned because, again, it is outside of the scope for the domain. This is the importance of verifying the start URL when you are initially setting up a project. [Sailesh] So that is the important lesson that Weston is trying to demonstrate. Whenever someone sends you a URL in an email , you should not just put it as a start URL but you should identify in the browser to see whether the URL is correct, whether it's redirecting somewhere or what. In this specific instance you will also notice that actually the page that is loaded is as a login , you know, username-password field on that page. 

So that would also indicate that you might really need the username password in order to be able to proceed Monitor with during the scan. a scan For the purposes of the demo, of we're going this to page. click Otherwise, on that the Complete might page -- link that and might get require into scripting the to pages proceed. tab. So it may just That's scan also the you links can also off navigate of this to page this and that tab is from it. Question? the main navigation clicking on pages Yes. for this project The on the screen. 

You'll want start to make sure that, again, URL you're in the correct organization is and the correct project any that you're reviewing data for URL this page is . tab, In you this have case the ability to it filter was paychex.com based But on certain it uRL could content or be page title content. something else -- You whatever have descriptions it is, it could be double WWW of products.com issues that you can filter for, so on and so forth. But what . we're going That to focus on could here is mean the you list have of URLs to that scan were all completed of the for this urls project under scan. 

products slash You'll index notice dot that HTML. there So is the start whatever URL section which was of web testing, your caustic Eucla website as well that as all of the pages that you were would like to scan , linkable that would from be that the initial start start page. URL. Looking at this, you'll have you have multiple different [Wes] page page groups, for instance, So product pages the like next laptops step in this demo that we are going to cover is that we are what if going I only to want to I demo want. 

If how I want to to restrict my include scan to or only report on exclude those product urls pages, those based laptop on and a desktop pages certain scope that What you'll need you to do for that would is you like would go into to the settings set tab. for So again your within that project. main navigation Those could at the top include of the screen, entire you would have you urls have a dropdown or urls substreams, settings content tab based HTML or PDF where content, fragment you will be able to identifiers. select project So first up, from this project. 

we are going From the to project settings talk screen, specifically you have about a sub navigation entire urls and URL substreams. For the purposes of general this users portion testing of standards and the scan demo, settings, as Sailesh scan settings is what we're going to be focusing mentioned, on today. we So let's are go ahead and click on going scan settings to the DQ demo site. On This the scan is a settings demo screen. site You that have was created by a the company in order to perform a few different demos features . and tools that you You can utilize can utilize in order to indicate the scope and dictate how the scan is going to perform. 

What we are going to focus on as far as excluding or including urls and substreams out of these four boxes, they are labeled urls to exclude must not have come up must have, and must have any air max so back to the demo and must have any air where I am interested in restricting this scan to report on pages that only have non-desktop in the URL, so what I will do is, and the must not have any box I will list the word laptop . And then in order to include urls that have the word desktop in it I am going to click enter and list the word desktop right under the word laptop. 

I will scroll to the bottom and click on update. And those settings that have been changed for this particular scan, similarly if I were interested in excluding laptop and desktop is that I would list these two words within the must not have box. Or if I would like to just include a word like laptop, I could put it in the must have box pyramid could put it in let's say you have just a few urls that you would like to exclude from your scan in general, you have the option to list the full URL. Yeah. 

So just as you -- [Sailesh] There is also the box that lets you do lower case if you choose to appear Mac the other point to note choose to appear Mac is that if you would have put these within double quotes or a quotation sign, it would not look for those in the URL but it would look for those in the actual page content, so occasionally -- well, not very often, sometimes there is a need to identify pages that have a particular word or phrase in them . Question? OK, so the question is about the scan settings . 

The scan settings page is a page where you can put in constraints for the project . On the scans page there are higher level controls so to speak that will let you say what the link level should be and such. We will be getting to that page momentarily, so we will discuss that when we come there. If I could actually, there were a couple of other questions. I think there was a question about if someone wants to scan something that is in the dev environment what does one do? Is it only public pages, or can there be other pages to scan? 

Yes, axe monitor is able to scan pages in the dev or staging environment. For that it is necessary that your security team allows access to scan those pages. The way to do that is to whitelist the IP address or the axe monitor server. So for each monitor instance, so there is an IP address, so Deque help desk will give out the IP pertaining to your company or specific instance so that IP address is unique for each instance. So it's not going to be the same across different companies, so for your company there's going to be a specific IP address, a specific server IP address. 

Your security team will have to wipe away the IP address, and axe monitor will scan those pages just like it is able to scan regular production pages. All right. [Wes] Yeah, so now that I have listed these words in the must have any box here, again, wanting to exclude all pages that do not include at least one of these words here. So I've gone to the bottom like I said and clicked update. I would then want to run the scan again and it would show some results, so I will go back to the dashboard , I will select a project that I have run that already has those settings, and what you will notice is that instead of those 18 pages as the initial project had , let's go back. 

You will note that all of the pages that are complete have the words laptop or desktop within the URL substream. Other than of course the initial start URL that was listed, if the start URL does not have the words that you are wanting to include, it is still going to list the initial start URL regardless of any sort of exclusions or inclusions. The next topic that we will cover is how we are going to exclude or include based on content type. So for this, we have set up a project that is going to scan that scans this large commuter site. 

Again this this is a demo site that was created by this is a demo Deque , and it has a larger number of pages than the Gefalscht website that we looked before, -- that we looked at before, so let's go back to the home screen and we are going to click on home screen and we the commuter project. Here once again, we have the project dashboard for Mars commuter project . Notice that the number of pages is considerably larger and the accessibility score is here, but what is different is that in addition to the groupings that you saw you will also notice PDF and UA issues. 

[Sailesh] So when you scan for a website, it is automatically going to scan for PDFS. Axe monitor now has the ability to scan for PDF's with another standard. Iso 14289, the sum companies also want to scan PDF's using that standard. So if you want to do that, you will actually choose that from the standards for the organization . By default, it is not enabled, so you will actually select that standard and say that whenever PDFS are scanned you will want to scan for a PDF -U as well. [Wes] Thank you for that. So what we are going to do is, we are then going to go back to the project settings for this particular -- 

what I will do is I will switch over to another project that we upgraded that is identical , however, it has one setting change. So I am changing to Mars commuter PDF's The project is set up to scan PDF pages only and report on those pages, and what you will notice is, the number of pages for one is extremely different, so it's only completed 17 pages . In addition to that it has only reported PDF issues for PDF-UA , or PDF-CFG. Once again we are going to navigate to the project settings from the navigation , and click on scan settings from the project settings screen , and the area where we are going to focus on is that first option when you get to that screen where it lists HTML and PDF exclusion options here. 

So by default, what you will notice is HTML and PDF content checkboxes are clicked. If I want to exclude HTML content I will uncheck the checkbox as I did in this project and if I was wanting to exclude PDF content and include HTML content only, you just simply uncheck the PDF and recheck the HTML content box. [Sailesh] So there was another point to highlight that we talked about a little while ago. So there are three boxes there, must have, must have any, and must not have. 1 needs to be careful when one is using those boxes because if you end up putting things in must have and must have any , you know, you might end up with a scan that really does not pull any pages because it can be confusing. 

So you have to logically make sure that the settings make sense. That it is not the result of using these boxes that would make monitor pull in 0 pages. [Wes] So now that we have covered how to exclude pages based on URL's and URL substreams and content, the next thing we are going to cover is URL parameters and fragment identifiers. While I'm pulling up the project that we have set up to go over that, Sailesh we'll explain what that means exactly. [Sailesh] So the URL parameters. Often, Often, you might have a question mark . 

An ecommerce, you might have protocol equals question mark, protocol equals something, again, question mark, equals one, 2, 3, 4. Whatever. So the question opposite argument. So it's a standard template from which those pages are designed, so it's only the product number that changes. The issues that you would see would largely be the same because the design of the page is the same. So when you run a scan, would you want all of those pages to be listed ? Sometimes it can be hundreds of pages with question mark quote equals something, and that's just in the case of a protocol. 

But you could also have state equals something, whatever, or in URL you might have parameter, you could also have multiple parameters sometimes. So you can decide whether the scan should be in parameters or exclude urls that have parameters . So, Weston it's pulled up a website that has -- on the pages screen, if you see the question mark sign it is going to have parameters on that website. [Wes] So I've searched for the question mark, and what you will all notice is that there's a list of 25 urls here that have that question mark and include parameters here , and there are two types here. 

One is WB disable equals true, and psid equals 1221. So what I will show next is exactly where you will want to navigate within the settings to ignore urls that contain specific , or rather, parameters. Like WB disable equals true. So I will go back to the settings screen , the scan settings screen within the project, scroll past the HTML and PDF options and the exclude boxes there, and right here where it says how I am identifying unique pages within the screen, I am going to focus specifically on URL parameters to discard, when to determine unique URL's So what I will do is input disable equals true , or just -- 

[Sailesh] Just disable. [Wes] Disable. Yeah. Or I can discard all parameters when determining QRL's -- urls if I so choose. So we've also created a project where this setting Stopping at has a thousand pages. been Why is that? enabled, and we So saved and this is re a reason ran because the a default scan so I will set go to back a to thousand. the pages So tab in you select have the ability that to change it if project. you choose Once to again, I will just blow that search for that question mark within the URL contains field. 

What you will notice A specific is that page all of the pages to that load, contain that disable equals you'll have this true, page readiness they section. have been That ignored first option in within the what section you are left is with is this going to enable particular URL a wait time that for has X monitor the telling Examiner parameter to wait a certain psid number of milliseconds equals before 1221. analysing or scanning the page so that it so [Sailesh] that you ensure that it is that So likewise, just as you can ignore parameters you can also ignore One page fragment when page content identifiers. 

loads asynchronously, So fragment specifically if identifiers there use is a lot of a content on hash a specific sign page in there. So or some of the those might content relate itself to dynamic, same page you'll want to links, click this checkbox. and you And by could the ignore that. By default if you look at i the guess, scan best settings practice page that we come would up recommend is the anywhere check from three box thousand , to five in thousand milliseconds. some However, situations if you you're noticing that might it might want take a little bit to longer, scan you those can input pages whatever as well. 

amount of So time sometimes is necessary single page applications, so you might want to uncheck that. All right? [Wes] The next thing we are going to talk about -- the next feature within the scan settings page is page limit, we will also cover some information around page wait times, and finally, sharing scan settings across an organization. Here on the scans settings page within project settings, scrolling past the area where we are ignoring parameters and fragment identifiers, you will see this option here where it says maximum number of pages. [Sailesh] So what are the indications for this? 

Sometimes it seems that it doesn't pull any pages. You expect it to pull many more pages, but it just stops. It's not able to pull in more pages, so that could be 1 indication. Another indication is that sometimes you run a scan, and you might see some issues like color contrast, et cetera. You might realize that they may be false positives, whereas acts monitor says it's going to reissue false positives, why is that happening? The reason is that it is probably running the analysis before the page has loaded fully. So if you try to analyze the same page using the browser extension, you might see those issues being not being reported there. 

So you may need to increase the time. You do that and then you run the scan, you crunch the scan as you would have expected to. [Wes] The next thing that we are going to cover is sharing some of these scan settings across an organization, and maybe why you might want to do that. So we are going to change the screen from project settings to organization settings from that main navigation settings drop down menu. Clicking on organization is going to take us to the organization where you have a similar tab for scan settings. On the screen there's a fewer number of settings here, where you can set an organization level including HTML, PDF that we covered, excluding boxes that we covered as well . 

And, the parameter fragment identifier settings and that maximum number of pages settings as well. [Sailesh] So the usefulness of this is sometimes, you know, you might want to set these settings at the organization level, so every time you create a new project the settings automatically cascade to the new project that you created, so you don't have to actually enter these settings at the project level. They get cascaded down automatically from the new project. [Grace] We have a bunch of questions. So someone said, I change how I make the settings and learn how to make the project more efficiently. 

Can I revisit the settings for all of my scans? Like come at how many levels are the same across projects, making sure that I've included project data ? Rather than going back one by one? [Sailesh] Yes, reread. [Grace] So this person is asking, I changed how I make the settings and learn how to create projects more efficiently. Can I reset them in mass for all of my scans, or do I have to go back one by one? [Sailesh] . Yes. You will have to go back one by one. So every time you run a project, every time you have a scan, it is very easy to just put in the URL and start to scan. 

And then, we can determine the settings for that project. It's possible that the settings for the project might be quite different from the settings that you decide on project B. So it is always at a project level, where you have to make those changes. [Grace] Thank you. Next question is, how would you know if there is an arrow on the page or if the whole thing is an error page? This is more specific to testing environment urls that are not for production pumac . [Sailesh] When you run the scan, it will complete the pages that scan and it will report the pages that it was not able to scan. 

So can you show the scan, Wes , and also if we go to the pages ? [Wes] So at the beginning of the webinar come up what you are focusing on specifically is the dashboard first and foremost. So this will initially be the starting point where you will start to see some of those things I have the option to click on those failed pages . If you are clicking on the scans tab and clicking on you, you have the option to see a list of up to 50 urls that ran and the status of each of those pages after they have completed. 

So the status includes other domains ignored, failed, completed, excluded if you have excluded that URL based on a setting that we have covered before, so that's where you will see some of those pages. The reasons for which will be listed once again on the page tab. And, we're looking at filtering page status from completed to failed to excluded or all even, if necessary. [Grace] Thank you. Do we have time for one more question about scans? [Sailesh] OK. [Grace] If the scan is set up to crawl one or more levels down from the start page but has more than one start URL added, does it scan all of the URL's first or will it progress ? 

[Sailesh] If it is too tasks, it will scan both urls . It's multitasking so when something is going on, it is possible that it might be scanning another URL, so , so for the user, for the end result, it's that when you have set it to scan two start urls or tasks it is going to scan open, and the output will be the result, both urls will scan to the levels you indicated. It really does not matter if it scans the first one or the second one. If it finds any duplicates in the results it's going to include unique pages, unique pages on it. 

Alright. So should we switch to the next section? Scans qnec [Wes] The next part of this demo is going to be covering the scans tab that Sailesh was alluding to. So we're looking at scheduling scans, how to do that, added scans. So what are some of the options within that scan screen? Specifically, why would you edit scans and how to change the scanning link level queue Mac -- scanning link level? We'll also look at how to restrict the scope of the scan to the folder of the task for start urls. So for this, we are going to go into this limited to 1 folder project, and we are then going to click on the scans tab within the navigation. 

The scans tab has a table where it lists the scanning, the priority, the scan level, the scan schedule, the status of the scan, and an actions spot where you can view and start. We will actually start here by clicking on the schedule link with an actions panel. And you can schedule these based on a certain cadence that you might find necessary, so whether it is doing certain code pushes or anything of that nature, we have the option to indicate a certain frequency. We can change it from manual through the drop down on this page, and I can indicate an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, a specific day or days of the week. 

For today's demo I am going to put on monthly by a specific day. The second step after that, I am going to indicate a start date. So this could be the day of, so the current date which is the 15th of February , or it could be any date after that, it could be anything after that. You could change it to a specific date. So I am going to input today's date, the 2nd or rather the 15th of February, sorry, you have the option to add an end date if necessary. If you want to tell axe monitor to stop the schedule after a certain date, I can indicate that date here. 

You can put this here where it says no end date checked and indicate a start time. Something to consider if I am putting the start date as the current date, you will want to make sure that the time you put in here is after the current time, so the time is currently 3:00 o'clock eastern or two o'clock central time, and I want to choose something that is a future time or else it is going to wait until the next month on the certain date that I choose to run. So I'm going to put this in , 4:00 PM, and then choose a specific date. 

I am going to choose the 16th, so it is going to start to Morrow, it is going to every single month on the 16th. At 4:00 PM, of course. Below scheduling that scan you will have a scan summary that is going to describe exactly what settings you just set, and what that means for your scan. If that all seems correct to you, you can move on to either save or you can add some of these additional options so if you want to stop the scan if it exceeds a certain number of hours or minutes , I can check this check box. 

If I want to terminate the scan instead of listing an end date , say just list the number of times I want it to run -- let's say I want to stop this scan from being scheduled after the scan is run 10 times, I can check this box and terminate this scan after 10 occurrences. I will now uncheck that box. I will click save. Clicking it will schedule the scan. The next step is going to be covering the edit scans options, what features you have the ability to do within the edit action -- or rather the actions column. 

So for this scan, I have the option to change the priority. I have the option to change scan levels, so this is something you will want to do as you run this scan . As you fix certain issues on the link level . I can increase those levels here all the way up into scanning all pages, but I have the option to also add a second or additional start urls by clicking on this add, but below that what we're going to talk about next is the ability to notify certain people that a scan has completed, so this notified completion of scan -- 

you have the option to set the notifications to notify project administrators. So the list of emails under the project administrator for this project, click on this checkbox. I can notify a specific list of urls or a specific list of emails, sorry, by clicking on the option below. I can list each email with a semicolon in between. The next step that we are going to talk about is adding or changing the start URL. So as I was mentioning before, you will see the start URL under tasks , I have the option to edit this start URL by clicking on the pencil icon or deleting it altogether by clicking the minus sign icon, and I also have the option to add tasks. 

This has the option to put a URL into this field, and then I can list this as a second URL. So I will add simply culture Canada without the science and their. And then I will click on done, and start URL. When I was adding the start URL you will notice there are other settings, a template, those are settings that we are going to get into in our later sessions of this webinar series . For now, we are talking about the ability to add additional task urls. In addition to adding task urls, I have the option of uploading a file with a list of urls that I would like to add to this list. 

So how do I do that? You want to create a TXT file that is a list of urls, so here on the screen I have a TST file that has a list of 6 urls that I want to add to the task list. I want to set those as start urls for this project. So what I will do is, I will choose a file and I am going to click on webinar folder, click on the URL webinar input file, and then click on import. And what you will notice is that all of those urls file has been uploaded. 

They have been added as task urls or rather start urls for this particular project. Going back to the edit action you can see most under the task URL. So something to note, whether I am adding just a second URL as a start URL or I am adding a full list, or importing a full list to a project, you want to be aware of what domain these particular urls are going to be found in. So if I added a URL or a list of urls that I imported, one of those urls is outside of the scope of the initial start URL. 

I want to make sure that I add that domain to the list for the project. So where I will do that, is I will click on the settings tab, click on project, and within the secondary navigation you will see an option that says domain. Click on the domains tab and add in a new domain. And I will add the second domain, and this will be based on the scans I just imported, outside of the scope of the initial domain. The next thing we are going to talk about is how to restrict -- sorry qnec [Sailesh] We have a question about importing urls. 

I think you will have to delete them, because it would not know which urls are correct and which ones you want to delete, so as a user you might have to delete that manually. Also, one needs to be careful about importing 7 URL's . Make sure the link level that you set is generally set to scanning only, otherwise if you set the link level to one or two or three, it's going to scan all of those urls 3 levels deep. It will probably take a long time. Each of those is a very small website of two or three pages, so that depends on which URL it is. 

It's also useful for importing urls when you are trying to scan individual PDFS which have a particular URL. So you could use this option for that. [Wes] So I will go ahead and delete those urls that I just uploaded before we get into the next topic of how to restrict the scope of the project to the directory or start task URL. So I will update, go back into edit, action, and here we are again. On the scan screen, we have a checkbox here that is going to indicate or rather tell X monitor -- X monitor to restrict the scope to the directory of the task URL. 

So you will notice that the folder here in the task URL notice that the folder is forward slash sign forward slash, so this is going to restrict the scope of the scan and tell axe monitor to only include pages that are within that science folder. So if I go to the pages tab for this project you will notice is that all of the pages that are listed for have that science folder, or within the science folder. But what you will notice , one thing you might think about is, well, is this similar to what we talked about in the beginning , by excluding based on certain words. 

Yeah, so this is a similar action, and we are talking about the different differences of restricting the scan to the directory of the start URL versus utilizing the four boxes within the scan settings tab that we covered earlier. [Sailesh] You could do it using either method of the scans settings page or you could do it from here. The only difference is, sometimes when you use this method from the scans page, you may see pages in the pages listing that do not actually belong to the directory. But that might happen if there is a redirect action, so a page from that URL has actually redirected to a different page. 

In that case the results don't really belong to this directory, but they have a redirection from a URL that did belong to that. Some other questions qnec ? [Wes] So within the scans tab we covered the scheduling feature, and then several features under that adding action within the scans tab. So we are going to end with some tab. So we are Q&A. Grace, I'm sure there are some questions in the chat. We can begin with some of those. [Grace] Excellent. Let's get into some of your questions. So the first one we have here asks, do the exclusion rules allow for wild cards that can exclude the directory? 

For example website.com backslash section A, backslash asterisk qmap ? [Sailesh] No. If you include the directory, everything after that would automatically be excluded. Like if you had a directory that was slash product slash if you had a and there were subdirectories under products, you would not actually have to list those, you could just say products slash products, and everything that follows that . All of the directories would automatically get excluded. [Grace] Thank you for clarifying. You mentioned using the upload of that TXT file to scan the urls in PDFS. Is this the download page or the landing page? 

[Grace] This person says it's great that we can skew QA -- scan QA, but what about authenticating and mimicking the customer experience? Can we set up command line scripting to do so? [Sailesh] Absolutely. [Wes] And we will cover that in future sessions of the webinar series , but similarly we were talking about the page that we were just on and how you can add a task . You have the option to add scripts. But we will talk about that and cover that in future sessions of the webinar series. [Grace] Excellent. What does an accessibility score of 0% mean and how do we fix it? 

[Sailesh] So 100% means it hasn't found any violations. At least no violations that would cause the score to actually go very high. But that's why the score is good. If the score is 0, it means whatever pages were found all those pages were probably critical and you've got a score of 0. SO0 indicates not good, whereas 100% indicates very good. [Wes] So I have the allied test dashboard showing 0. The total number of critical pages are equal. At least of those 18 pages so the critical issue being the highest, or rather, the priority that's found on that page. 

[Sailesh] So quickly, a recap, if a page is good , it gets a score of 1. If the page is moderate, it gets a score of 0.8. If a page is serious it gets a score of 0.4. So moderate is 80%, and serious is 40%. A critical is 0. Depending on how it works, we can have an average and express that as a percentage, and that's your access score. And a tage then it gets marked as critical , if the worst offending issue Is that, it might not be critical. It might not be marked as such. 

[Grace] Thank you. This question asks, can I upload a spreadsheet of urls to create distinct scanned projects? And then can I go in and change each of the scan settings qmap my work site has approximately 250. [Sailesh] No. It only accepts a plain text file of urls . [Wes] And to focus that question a little bit more, when you are uploading the TXT file that is within the same project so if you are wanting to create separate projects for each URL you would do those on an individual basis. So it would be 250 different projects. 

[Grace] Thank you. Is there any documentation on what criteria are used to calculate the percentage of scores in axe monitor? [Sailesh] The Deque methodology is a default and back level whether something is serious or critical or moderate. So that's what's used when it ranks an issue, so if there are plenty of issues that the monitor has found, it's going to look at those 20 issues . If there is at least one critical issue, they will be ranked as critical. If out of those twenty there were no critical issues but the worst was just serious, it could be marked as serious. 

The axis of the score is a weighted average that takes the score down to a percentage using the page, the count, the score that I explained a little while ago. 0 for critical, one for good or minor. So using that wait one would calculate the axis score. [Grace] Thanks, Sailesh. What percent of all section 508 or 2.0 standards does Deque actually capture? For example, 80% score as 80% of those standards? [Sailesh] This is basically an automated evaluation tool, so there are definitely issues that do require manual inspection. In fact, thin axe monitor what is displayed are issues where monitor is able to definitely determine that something is in excess of the issue. 

It also identifies what are called needs reviews, so when we suspect there is a problem, a possible problem that requires human judgment, those are actually on the dashboard. There is a link that says show needs review. So you click that link and it would show items that the tool was not able to definitely identify as an issue that requires manual inspection. So that's part of the automated evaluation process. Besides, using the other tools, other products from the Deque, one can perform what is called intelligence-guided testing. So the manual process is greatly aided using that process. 

It's possible by using dev tools, browser extensions, and that helps to actually identify many more issues. Many more issues using the tools. [Grace] Thank you. Just a couple more minutes left. We have time for a few more questions. Be sure to put those in the queue and a module if you want them answered at this time. But this question asks, can you elaborate on the scans priority setting and how it impacts the scan qmap ? [Sailesh] It is high, medium, at low. So by default, of the medium that is selected. Depending on the requirements you can switch it , it's set at medium. 

So when you have many scans that are going to be running, it's good that you set most of them at the default medium. Occasionally when you need a quicker priority scan, you switch back to high. And you should be mindful that you don't have all scans set to high. So I mean, that then limits your ability to increase priority for a particular scan. [Grace] Thank you. And can multiple scans be scheduled to start at the same time? [Sailesh] Repeat that, please. Technically, yes. You can technically schedule them to start at the same time, but there's a risk. 

Security restraints or restrictions, for example. It's like a robot. It's a bot. Security settings at companies try to identify whether a bot is trying to access the website, and it might prevent that access. So very often, you might see that scans fail because there are so many scans accessing at the same time. The other reason is that it turns off efficiency. If you have scans kicking off at the same time, big scans, small scans, you'd have many tasks all running not as quickly as you'd expect. It's better to stagger them, if you can. You can stagger them at thirty minute intervals. 

It's entirely need-based. Be mindful of how you schedule the scans. [Grace] I think we have time for one more question. What scan settings would be the best at the organization level? [Sailesh] What scan settings are best at the organization level qnec for instance, Weston pointed out the page count. So page count, you know, if you are running scans and you don't want scans to run, that is one that you could probably set up the organization-level. There are URL's to exclude. When you are trying to run a project, and they all have photo links , you see the photo links are the same. 

You don't want the same photo links to be scanned so you could just put them as a URL's to exclude. And then come up thereafter they will be excluded from all projects. So you can have it, you could actually scan one project that has those links, and then afterwards you could populate the settings to exclude those links so that they don't get across other projects. [Grace] Great. Are there organization level settings for admin, right, or does it have to be done on an individual product -- project basis, excuse me? [Sailesh] The organization administrator is the one who will put these settings in place. 

Someone might be able to populate the organization settings. [Grace] Got it. Thank you. Welcome everyone come up we are at time. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for the presenters, a quick reminder before we go, look out for additional sessions that we will be holding in the coming months on acts monitor. Also sign up. We are about one month out. We would love to see you there. [Sailesh] And thank you come up grace come up for presenting this. And thank you come up [Wes] Thank you to everybody for joining. 

[Grace] Thank you.