Guide: Track your progress with scheduled monitoring

Who can use this feature?

• Organization administrators and workspace administrators.
• Available for all packages.

In this guide, you’ll learn:

• What’s monitoring? 
• How to use monitoring
• How to set up an accessibility monitor
• What's next?

What’s monitoring?

Monitoring or monitors refers to recurring scans that start without prompting. They capture accessibility trends over time and can alert your team if a score drops too low.  

Whether you update a website often or rarely, changes might cause accessibility issues (findings). Monitoring ensures that you’re checking for new findings regularly. It helps you to catch and fix issues early on and learn what kind of changes might impact accessibility.

Note: For more information on monitoring, go to Monitoring digital assets. 

How to use monitoring

Get the most impactful data by monitoring more than one environment.

• Monitor your production environment to understand the current experience and where you can improve.
• Monitor staging and development to identify accessibility issues before going live.

Remember, you can only have one monitor per digital asset. To add a new digital asset, request support.

The following table describes how to use monitoring: 

	Identify issues in releases. If you do regular releases, schedule monitors to align with them. That way you can quickly identify any accessibility issues that might have been introduced without manually running scans.
	Use AI Analyzer to learn what changed since the last scan. It will analyze your latest results—instantly spotting added or removed pages, fixed issues, and new risks. Get a clear, shareable summary in seconds. For details, refer to Monitoring page overview.
	Track remediation progress. If you set up a monitor, you'll see a graph of your accessibility scores on the Digital asset overview and Monitoring page. As you remediate findings, monitoring will passively collect data and graph your progress.
	Get alerted to changes. Monitoring alerts can help you keep tabs on your website. Get an email notification if your score drops below a certain percentage and use that alert to start taking action.

How to set up an accessibility monitor

You can set up monitoring with little effort, using predefined monitoring settings. For this Quick setup,  select the recurrence and start on date. If you want a more customized monitoring scan, use Advanced setup.

The table below describes the predefined monitoring settings.

Follow these steps to set up a monitor using quick setup. To complete this task, you need at least one digital asset in your workspace. 

To set up monitoring using Quick setup:

1. Navigate to the workspace level. 
2. Under Workspace, select Digital assets.
3. Choose the digital asset you want to set up monitoring for.
4. Select Monitoring.
5. Select Monitoring settings.
6. Select the Recurrence.
7. Choose the Start on date. This is the date of your first monitoring scan.
8. Select Save.

Your monitor will now run at regular intervals and report the results back to the platform. You can view your progress over time from the Digital asset overview page and Monitoring page.

Note: The results of your first monitoring scan may take some time to generate. Check back later to review your results!

Congratulations! You successfully set up an accessibility monitor. Your monitor will continue to collect data and show the impact of your remediation efforts over time. 

What's next?

To continue learning about the platform, browse additional quick start guides and the rest of our Help Center documentation.