A11y_QuickTest

Automated Accessibility Test for web-applications

Description

This Project is MVP/Boilerplate for automated Accessibility testing. One can use this for performaing quick accessibility test on any Page, or can further extend for their project specific needs by using placeholder classes/methods. Note: Currently authentication is disabled and can be enabled by uncommenting the login placeholder class

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• NodeJs

Installing

npm install

Running the tests

• CLI Mode: It gives flexibility to run from anywhere/any cli.

npm run A11y-cli <appURL=https://test.com,authType=internall,username=test,password=password,rules=wcag2a>

• GUI Mode: It gives very interective UI with reach features such as select browsers & locate the element where violation/error ocuured

npm run A11y-gui <appURL=https://test.com,authType=internall,username=test,password=password>

click 'Run all specs'

Arguments

• appURL : This will be the complete applicaiton url with http/https.
• authType : If you application requires authentication, use this argument to specify authType by default value will be None.
• username : If authentication is required provide the username here.
• password : If authentication is required provide the password here.
• rules : Accessibility standard rule set. valid values are - wcag2a,wcag2aa,section508. Default value will be all

TestResult

Detaild Accessibility violations Report will be generated inside /cypress/reports folder in simple json format. Which can be further use to share/integrate in ci-cd.

Built With

• NodeJs - Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
• Cypress - E2E Testing Framework
• axe-core - Axe is an accessibility testing engine for websites and other HTML-based user interfaces