Schedule a website scan

Click Create a new scan under Website Scanner on the Accessibility Testing Homepage.

If your website is considerably large and you do not have the list of URLs ready, select Add via sitemap and enter the base URL of the website to extract the sitemap automatically.

If you have only a few URLs to be scanned, select Add manually.

1. To extract all the URLs in the sitemap automatically:
   • Select Add via sitemap in the Add pages to scan step.
   • Enter the base URL of the website to be scanned.
   • Click Add sitemap. The URLs from the corresponding sitemap URL are extracted.
   • Alternatively, you can use Upload via XML to upload a sitemap XML file. The URLs in the uploaded sitemap are extracted.
   • Click Next.
2. To add individual URLs manually:
   • Select Add manually in the Add pages to scan step.
   • Enter the individual URLs manually and click Add page.
   • Alternatively, you can use Upload via CSV to add a list of URLs to be scanned. To get a sample CSV file, click the drop-down next to the button, and select Download sample CSV.
   • Delete any URL that you don’t want to scan.
   • Click Next.

Configure the website scan as follows in Confirm scan details:

1. Enter the scan name.
2. To schedule a recurring scan, switch on Enable recurring scans and select the schedule.
3. Expand Scan settings and select the configurations:
   • Select the WCAG version (WCAG 2.1AA is the default) required from the drop down.
   • If your scan includes locally hosted URLs (web pages in development, staging, or other lower environments that are not publicly accessible), click Add next to Local Testing and enter the required details. Refer to the local testing configuration guide for more information.
   • If you want to scan a page that requires a user login, click Add next to Test pages behind login and enter the required details. Refer to the logged in pages guide for more information.
   • Switch off Include Needs Review issues if you don’t want to include such rules in your scan. These issues are ON by default.
   • Switch on Include Best Practices issues if you want to include such rules in your scan. These issues are OFF by default.
     

Click Create.
The scan runs at the specified time and sends an email to your registered email ID after the scan is complete.

To access the website scan reports, navigate to the Website Scanner section and select the desired report from the Scan summary.