Key Concepts — Assets, Surfaces, Checks, and Results
Understand the core concepts behind Auditsu: assets, surfaces, checks, and results. Learn how these building blocks work together in your accessibility audits.
Assets
An asset represents a digital product that you are auditing, such as a website, web application, or mobile app. Each asset has a name, type, and a set of accessibility standards to audit against. Assets contain one or more surfaces.
Surfaces
A surface is an individual page or screen within an asset. For a website, each page you want to test is a surface. For a mobile app, each screen is a surface. You can upload screenshots to help identify surfaces during the walkthrough.
Jobs
A job represents a single audit run against an asset. When you start a walkthrough, a job is created to track your progress through all the checks for all surfaces in that asset.
Checks and Actions
Checks are the individual accessibility requirements you evaluate during a walkthrough. Each check corresponds to a specific success criterion from the selected standards. Actions are the specific things you need to verify for each check.
Results
Results are the outcomes you record for each check during the walkthrough. Each result is marked as pass, fail, or not applicable. Results are aggregated to give you an overall picture of your asset's accessibility compliance.
Tickets
When a check fails, you can create a ticket to track the issue. Tickets capture the details of the failure and can be assigned to team members for remediation. They help ensure that identified accessibility issues are followed up on and resolved.