dequelabs/axe-core
Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 30 days ago, with 242 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an automated accessibility testing engine for web and HTML-based user interfaces.
- Enables integration of accessibility checks into existing functional testing workflows with zero false positives.
- Use for automating WCAG compliance testing during web application development to catch issues early.
- Use for integrating accessibility audits into continuous integration pipelines for consistent quality assurance.
- Use for localizing accessibility testing messages to support multilingual development teams and applications.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Mozilla Public License 2.0
Weak copyleft: changes to the licensed code itself must be shared when you distribute it, but code that merely uses it can stay under your own license.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Axe is an accessibility testing engine for websites and other HTML-based user interfaces. It's fast, secure, lightweight, and was built to seamlessly integrate with any existing test environment so you can automate accessibility testing alongside your regular functional testing.
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Axe-core has different types of rules, for WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 on level A, AA and AAA as well as a number of best practices that help you identify common accessibility practices like ensuring every page has an
h1heading, and to help you avoid "gotchas" in ARIA like where an ARIA attribute you used will get ignored. The complete list of rules, grouped WCAG level and best practice, can be found in doc/rule-descriptions.md.With axe-core, you can find on average 57% of WCAG issues automatically. Additionally, axe-core will return elements as "incomplete" where axe-core could not be certain, and manual review is needed.
To catch bugs earlier in the development cycle we recommend using the axe-linter vscode extension. To improve test coverage even further we recommend the intelligent guided tests in the axe Extension.
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Forks
976+69
Open issues
468+37
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| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 101.1K | +6.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
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| gildas-lormeau/SingleFile | 22.9K | — | 35 | today |
| appium/appium | 22.2K | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| dequelabs/axe-core | 7.8K | — | 63 | 30 days ago |
| Category median | 26.2K | — | 60 | — |
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