Accessibility Testing
Explore how to use the axe framework for accessibility testing across Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium. Understand how to run scans, generate detailed reports, and address accessibility violations to build inclusive web applications that meet WCAG guidelines.
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Each website these days must adhere to the strict accessibility requirements defined by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and other bodies. Enabling people with various disabilities to consume data on websites and perform all available transactions is a mandatory requirement. So, designing a web application for accessibility and testing for it is a key requirement for each software iteration. For web accessibility testing, Deque has developed the widely adopted axe open-source framework, which most test automation frameworks today support through APIs and plugins.
Cypress accessibility testing
Most frameworks utilize the axe framework for checking website accessibility issues. The axe library provides us with the following useful methods:
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