Dismiss or restore a manual finding from in-house evaluations

Who can use this feature?

• Organization administrators.
• Available for Essentials+, Accelerate+, and Enterprise+.

You can dismiss a manual finding, and restore it at a later time.

Note the following guidelines:

• Dismissing a finding doesn't fix the accessibility issue. As a best practice, only dismiss findings when you need to. For example, dismiss issues that are false positive, or fixed.
• You can’t dismiss a finding that’s linked to a task and you can’t create a task from a dismissed finding.  
• Too many dismissed findings can affect your accessibility compliance.  
• Details of each time a finding is dismissed or restored are kept in the activity log. 

On this page:

• Dismiss a finding
• Restore a finding
• Check the activity log

Dismiss a finding

You can dismiss any finding with the status Open, Not fixed, Not reproducible, and Cannot be fixed.  

To dismiss a manual finding:

1. Go to Digital assets.
2. Select the digital asset you'd like to review.
3. Choose Evaluations.
4. Select the evaluation.

5. Select the Findings tab.

6. Select the Finding ID of the finding you want to dismiss. 

7. Open the finding you want to dismiss. Make sure the finding is not linked to a task. 
8. Select Dismiss.
9. Enter the reason for dismissing the finding.
10. Select Dismiss issue. The finding will remain in the Evaluation Results table with the Dismissed status.

Restore a finding

To restore a manual finding:

1. Go to Digital assets.
2. Select the digital asset you'd like to review.
3. Choose Evaluations.
4. Select the evaluation.

5. Select the Findings tab.

6. Select the Finding ID of the finding you want to restore.

7. Open the finding you want to restore.
8. Select a different status from the dropdown.
9. Enter the reason for restoring the finding.
10. Select Restore issue.

Check the activity log

The manual finding activity log shows the details from each time a finding is dismissed or restored. The activity log includes:

• The activity.
• The date and time of activity.
• Who did the activity.

To a check a manual finding’s activity log:

1. Go to Digital assets.
2. Select the digital asset you'd like to review.
3. Choose Evaluations.
4. Select the evaluation.
5. Select the Findings tab.
6. Select the Finding ID.
7. Select the speech bubble icon.

The dismissed findings and the reason for dismissing them are tracked in the activity log.