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Guide: Manage and prioritize automated findings for a digital asset

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Where can I find consolidated automated findings?

Automated findings are generated each time a scan or monitor runs. The Digital asset findings page consolidates all of these findings across all scans and monitors into a single, actionable view. Instead of downloading each report separately to work on your findings, you can now view and manage all automated findings in one place.

On the Findings page, you can:

  • View and manage all automated findings for a digital asset, regardless of when they were reported.
  • Apply AI-powered filtering to to prioritize the findings and quickly determine what to fix first
  • Apply other filters to prioritize the findings (for example, by Severity, Status, or Testing tool).
  • Dismiss one or more selected findings, if they are not linked to a task.
  • Select a finding and create a linked task, to start tracking the remediation work for this finding.

List digital asset findings for a scanned asset

 To display findings for a scanned digital asset:

  1. Navigate to the workspace level. 
  2. Under Workspace, select Digital assets.
  3. Select the digital asset for which you'd like to view all automated findings.
  4. Under Fix and Find, choose Findings. The Digital asset findings page opens. 

Note: Here, you can view and manage all automated findings from scans of your digital asset in one place. Apply filters to prioritize and resolve issues efficiently.

Use AI to narrow down and prioritize findings

For focused, goal-driven remediation, use our AI-powered filtering and AI-prioritization. Use  it to narrow down a broad list of findings into a targeted, actionable view.

To apply AI-powered prioritization of automated findings:

  1. List digital asset findings for a scanned asset.
  2. Select the Prioritize with AI button. A side-panel is displayed. Here, you can enter your remediation goals and choose the prioritization method
    1.  In the AI filters field, enter what you'd like to look for. For example, enter Find Open and Critical  findings only. The platform applies the relevant filters and presents the results.
    2. Optionally, select an option under Prioritize findings that: 
      • Optimize for VPAT 
        (Criterion with the fewest total findings)
      • Optimize for risk mitigation
        (Criterion with the most severe findings)
      • Impact score quickly
        (Criterion with the fewest severe findings)
    3. Select Apply. The platform applies the relevant filters and presents the results.

Note: All filters applied by the AI Prioritization Agent are visible on the page and behave as manually applied filters. You can view and edit AI-generated filters. We retain only the latest filters and do not keep history of previous inputs. 

Apply standard filters to refine your findings

Use standard filters to customize and narrow down the list of findings to what matters the most. Find the issues you need to fix first, and then proceed to resolve them efficiently from one place. 

About standard filters

By default, when you open the page initially the following filtering options are applied:

  • Testing tool: Your default testing tool.
  • Severity: Critical
  • Status: Open, Re-opened

Before you modify these default options, decide what you want to look for, and then apply the filters accordingly. For example, you might want to list high severity findings that have been reopened, have tasks linked to them, and originate from the Access Engine testing tool. 

  • Testing tool: Access Engine
  • Task: Linked
  • Severity: High
  • Status: Re-opened

Use standard filtering

To apply filters to your findings:

  1. On the Digital asset findings page, select Filters. A new page opens.
  2. Select or enter the filters you want to apply. Refer to Filters for your digital asset findings. 
  3. Choose Apply filters. The list of findings is updated.

Use multi-value filtering

Use multi‑value filtering to avoid applying filters one at a time and re-running searches repeatedly. You can add multiple values in the following filter fields:
  • Finding ID
  • Task ID
  • Page URL
  • Finding title 

To apply multi-value filtering by Finding ID, Task ID, or Page URL:

  1. List digital asset findings for a scanned asset.

  2. In the Finding ID, Task ID, or Page URL fields, type a value. 

  3. Pres Enter.  A chip appears under the field showing that the value has been added. 

  4. Optionally, continue adding more values in the same field by typing and pressing Enter after each one. Each value appears as its own chip. This makes it possible to define a group of IDs, URLs, or tasks that should be reviewed together in a single view.

  5. Select Apply filters. Relevant findings that match the values are displayed. 

Note: Filtering can be partial. For example, if you enter an incomplete, partial Page URL, for example www.levelaccess.com and not the full one, for example, www.levelaccess.com/platform-services-overview, the search will return all pages that match the partial Page URL.

To filter by Finding title: 

  1. Type a term in the field. For example, type input. A predictive dropdown shows matching results. The matching rule titles appear in the dropdown.

  2. Select one or more titles from the list. 

  3. Select Apply filters.  The platform lists the findings that match any of the selected titles.  

Remove filters

To remove one or more filters for your digital asset findings: 

  1. List digital asset findings for a scanned asset. 
  2. Select Filters. A new page opens.
  3. To remove a value from a multi-value filter: 
    • Select the X on a chip to remove that value and then reapply filters again. The results are updated accordingly.
  4. To remove the filters:
    1. Clear the checkbox next to the filter you want to remove.
    2. Delete the filter value from one of the text fields. 
  5. Choose Apply filters. 

To clear all the filters in bulk:  

  • On the Findings page, select Clear filters. 

Note that at least one testing tool is always selected. 

Understand filters for your consolidated digital asset findings

Decide how you want to group and search for findings. Map these requirements to the filters available at the digital asset Findings page. Select the filters and apply them. 

Filter Description

Finding ID

Unique identifier of the finding. You must enter the Finding ID value to filter by it. You can add multiple Finding ID values. 

Example: IXJ-102003

Finding title

Rule name or description associated with the finding. You must enter the Finding title to filter by it. You can add multiple Finding title values. 

Example: IFrame has suspicious accessible name

Note: Findings are instances where rules are violated. The same rule can be violated more than once on a digital asset, so you can have multiple findings from the same rule.  When you want to create a task, you can select only those findings that share the same rule. 

Note: The platform supports predictive search for the Finding Title field.  Select an option under Finding Title. The platform filters results using AI-assisted flows.

Page URL

URL of the webpage where the finding was detected. You must enter the URL value in the field to filter by it. You can add multiple Page URL values. 

Example: https://yourwebpage.com/input-text.html

Testing tool

 The accessibility testing tool used to locate the finding. From the dropdown, select the testing tool you want to filter by. For example, select Access Engine, WAWE, axe-core, or equal-access.

Success criterion  

The WCAG success criterion associated with the rule and the level and version of WCAG it satisfies. You must enter the criterion you want to filter by. Read more about conformance levels.

Example success criterion: 2.1.1 Keyboard.
 

Task ID

Unique identifier of the task. You can add multiple Task ID values. 

Task

Type of task, Linked or Unlinked. Select whether you want to list findings that are linked to a task, or unlinked, or both.

You can:

  • Chose the relevant checkbox (Linked or Unlinked).
  • Chose Select All, to include findings with both linked and unlinked tasks.

Severity

Severity defines how much an accessibility finding impacts someone with a disability. Severity can be Critical, High, Low, or Custom. Read more about severity.

You can:

  • Chose the relevant Severity checkbox (Critical, High, Low).
  • Choose Select All, to include all Severity levels in your view of findings
  • Choose Unselect All, to remove severity from filtering. 

Status

 

Status of the finding. Select one or more statuses: 

  • Open
  • Closed
  • Dismissed
  • Re-opened

Dismiss findings  

You might want to dismiss findings that aren’t actionable by your team. You can also restore dismissed findings.  For details, refer to Dismiss scan findings or restore them.  

Note: You can't dismiss a finding that's linked to a task. You can't restore a dismissed finding until you display it again in the list of findings. Go to Filters, select Dismissed, and select Apply filters.  

Create a task to start fixing a finding

You can select a finding and create a task for it. To learn more about tasks, refer to Create a task.

To create a task from the Findings page: 

  1. List digital asset findings for a scanned asset. 
  2. Select the checkbox for the finding for which you want to create a task.
  3. Select the checkbox next to each finding you want to create a task for. You can also select all findings on the page by selecting the checkbox at the top of the list.
  4. Select Create task. The Create task panel opens. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.
  5. On the Task details tab, choose a project for your task and make sure that all other details are correct. You can also create a new project.
  6. On the Rule description page, enter the rule you want to associate with this task.
  7. Select Create task.

Switch to the manual evaluation results

To switch to manual evaluation results:

  1. List digital asset findings for a scanned asset. The Digital asset findings page is displayed. 
  2. Select the following link: Visit the Evaluations tab to review manual findings. 

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