Automated testing with aXe -- A11ycasts #15

Manually reviewing a site for accessibility issues can be a time consuming process. Automated tools help streamline the work and make it easier to catch subtle mistakes. Today on A11ycasts we'll show one of those tools, a library called aXe, and how you can use it as a drop in script, a Selenium runner, or from your command line.

ChromeDriver for Selenium:

[sudheendrasubramanya]

Hay Rob. Thanks for making these videos. Most of the webpages we work with needs credentials to login to it. How can we do it with axe-selenium combo?

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9:38 you don't have to restart your terminal to ensure changes to your .bash_profile take affect. Just use the command "source ~/.bash_profile"

[doreenfarfan]

For the axe-cli, is there a way to only output violations? and is there a way to have the results outputted nicely into a file rather than in the command line output?

[thejaredwilcurt]

Damn, I just released Koa11y a few days ago, it's built on top of Pa11y. Now I'm thinking it may make more sense to add in aXe support. Maybe a future version.

[xircle]

The aXe Chrome extension is my go-to choice for automated testing. I used WAVE once and it had way too many false positives and was very noisy visually.

[Ranger]

thank you for the really good introduction

[ashishgujar]

Does it also output keyboard accessibility issues?

[markuslemcke]

Hi Rob, I installed Axe as Chrome-Extensions, but it looks like axe is no longer free to use. Is that right?

[devduttanatu]

Hey Rob, Very nice series of lectures.
Is there exclusively any plugin or tool just like 'axe' to test the complaince category wise i.e whether it is 'a', 'aa' or 'aaa' complaince ?

[sainaasaimaa]

Do you know how to install this with java ? Instead of js..

[adityabarbadikar]

How can I get Element source and location in results while performing automated execution?

[ihowaonaro]

when I run the axe-webdriverjs tests the exact same way it returns null to the console. it also throws an error when using
results.violations. Pls how can I sort this out?

[armatearjun]

Anything like this for Android and IOS?

[Yashwanth.v]

Google Chrome Developers is using apple mac