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Understanding Audit Results and Tasks

Once AllAccessible has audited your site, you'll see scores, issue counts, and severity labels — and a **Tasks** board to work through them. This guid

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Understanding Audit Results and Tasks

Overview

Once AllAccessible has audited your site, you'll see scores, issue counts, and severity labels — and a Tasks board to work through them. This guide explains what severity means, how to read your results, how the Tasks board is organized, and, most importantly, what to fix first so your effort goes where it matters most.

Note: Audit results are an automated, informational assessment to help you prioritize good-faith remediation. Clearing every automated issue is a strong step, but it isn't the same as certified compliance — some accessibility criteria still require manual review and testing with real assistive technology.

Who This Is For

  • Site owners and team members interpreting their audit results

  • Anyone deciding which accessibility issues to tackle first

  • Users getting started with the Tasks board

What You'll Learn

  • What the four severity levels (Critical, Serious, Moderate, Minor) mean

  • How to read the Live Monitoring stat cards and per-page results

  • How the Tasks board is organized

  • A practical order for what to fix first


Severity: Critical, Serious, Moderate, Minor

Every issue AllAccessible finds is rated by impact — how much it affects people using your site. You'll see these four levels in the Issue Breakdown card and in each page's results:

  • Critical — blocks people from using core parts of your site (for example, a control that can't be operated or reached with a keyboard or screen reader). Fix these first.

  • Serious — creates significant barriers that are hard to work around (for example, meaningful content or actions that assistive technology can't interpret).

  • Moderate — causes real friction but is usually workable (for example, unclear labels or inconsistent structure).

  • Minor — small polish items with limited impact on most users.

Each level also maps to WCAG success criteria, so a fix isn't just "less red" — it's a concrete step toward a specific standard.

Rule of thumb: Impact first, then volume. One Critical issue that blocks checkout matters more than dozens of Minor ones. Within the same severity, favor issues that appear on your most-visited or most-important pages.

📷 Issue Breakdown card showing Critical / Serious / Moderate / Minor counts


Reading Your Results

Start on Live Monitoring (the default page under Audits & Fixes). The stat cards summarize your site:

  • Scan Score — an automated percentage, labeled "Automated assessment," with the disclaimer "Informational only — not a conformance certification." A directional health signal, not a grade.

  • WCAG coverage (A / AA / AAA) — automated coverage by conformance level.

  • Issue Breakdown — remaining issues by severity.

  • Issues Resolved — what's been fixed this period, split into AI Resolved, User Fixed, and Ignored.

  • Coverage — how many discovered pages have been audited, and whether those audits are Fresh or Stale / Never.

  • Cohort Rank — how you compare to similar sites.

To see severity per page, scroll to the Page Details table — one row per page, each with its own Critical/Serious/Moderate/Minor counts, score, and last-scan time. Click a page's URL to open its audit detail, where each issue shows its rule name, count, WCAG tags, Impact badge, and Status. For a full walkthrough of finding where an issue lives, see Running an Accessibility Scan.

Coverage: Don't Fix a Stale Picture

The Coverage card (and the Coverage sub-tab) tell you how much of your site has actually been audited and how fresh the data is — Fresh vs Stale / Never. If coverage is low or stale, your severity counts are based on a partial view. Run a scan to refresh before you invest heavily in prioritization.


The Tasks Board

The Tasks sub-tab turns audit findings into a workable board — the Accessibility Task Board (H1 "Accessibility Tasks"). It groups work by status so you and your team can track progress. Statuses you'll see include:

  • Completed — issues you've resolved

  • Ignored — issues you've deliberately set aside (e.g. false positives or not applicable)

  • Manual Required — issues that need a human to fix (not auto-resolvable)

  • Reopened — previously closed issues that resurfaced

  • Auto-Fixed by AllAccessible AI — issues resolved automatically by AllAccessible AI

An empty column reads "No tasks in this column."

📷 Accessibility Task Board columns

Plan note: The Tasks board and per-issue task actions (opening an issue's details, managing its status, exporting a PDF) are a Starter feature. On the free plan you can still see the audit list and each page's issues, but opening issue details and task management are locked, with a prompt to upgrade to Starter ($10/month).


What to Fix First: A Practical Order

Use this sequence to get the most accessibility improvement for your effort:

  1. Refresh your data. Check the Coverage card. If it's stale or low, run a scan so you're prioritizing from a current picture.

  2. Clear Critical issues on key pages. Sort Page Details to find pages with Critical counts, starting with your highest-traffic and highest-value pages (home, product, checkout, contact).

  3. Move to Serious issues. Same approach — impact first, prioritizing important pages.

  4. Let AllAccessible AI handle the repetitive ones. Many common issues (missing labels, empty links, page language) can be drafted as fixes for you. Review and approve them in Agentic AI Fixes — this often clears a large share of Moderate/Minor items at once.

  5. Work the Manual Required column. These need a person; assign them and track them on the Tasks board.

  6. Mop up Moderate and Minor issues. Polish once the high-impact work is done.

  7. Re-scan and re-check. Confirm resolved issues drop off, watch Issues Resolved climb, and keep coverage fresh.

Tip: "Ignored" is a legitimate outcome. If an automated finding is a false positive or genuinely not applicable to your context, mark it Ignored so it stops distracting from real work — but do it deliberately, not to inflate your score.


Common Questions

Q: My Scan Score is high but there are still Critical issues. Which do I trust?
A: Trust the Issue Breakdown and per-page results over the single score. The score is a rolled-up, informational signal; the severity counts tell you where the real barriers are. Always clear Critical issues regardless of the headline score.

Q: What does "Auto-Fixed by AllAccessible AI" mean?
A: These are issues that were resolved automatically — either by approved agentic fixes or rule-based fixes applied by the widget. See Approving Agentic AI Fixes for how that review-and-approve flow works.

Q: What's the difference between "Ignored" and "Completed"?
A: Completed means the issue was actually fixed. Ignored means you deliberately set it aside (false positive or not applicable) without fixing it.

Q: Why can't I open an issue's details?
A: The Tasks board and per-issue details are a Starter feature. On the free plan you can see the issue list and page URLs, but opening details and managing tasks require Starter ($10/month).

Q: Does clearing every issue mean my site is compliant?
A: No. Resolving automated findings is meaningful progress, but full accessibility also depends on things only a human can verify. Treat this as ongoing, good-faith work rather than a one-time compliance stamp.


Troubleshooting

Issue: My Severity Counts Look Wrong or Out of Date

Cause: Your audit coverage may be stale, or you're viewing a different time period.

Solutions:

  1. Check the Coverage card for Stale / Never pages and run a scan

  2. Confirm the time-period filter (Today, Last 7 days, etc.) matches what you expect

Issue: The Tasks Board Is Locked

Cause: Task management is a Starter feature; free or inactive accounts can view issues but not manage tasks.

Solution: Upgrade to Starter ($10/month), or reactivate an inactive plan, to unlock the Tasks board and per-issue details.

Issue: I Get an Error Opening an Issue or the Task Board

Cause: Access is available to the site owner and team members with access to the site. An unexpected error usually points to an access or membership problem, not expected behavior.

Solution: If you should have access and hit an error, contact support rather than assuming it's normal.


Next Steps

  1. Refresh coverage, then sort Page Details by Critical issues on your key pages

  2. Approve the repetitive fixes in Agentic AI Fixes to clear volume fast

  3. Track the rest on the Tasks board, then re-scan to confirm progress


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Last Updated: July 2026
Where: Audits & Fixes → Live Monitoring, Coverage, and Tasks
Plan note: The Tasks board and per-issue task management are a Starter feature ($10/mo)

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