agentskillexchange axe-core Accessibility Testing Engine for Automated Web UI Auditing
axe-core is the industry-standard accessibility testing engine by Deque Systems that automatically detects WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 violations in web interfaces. It integrates into any existing test framework — Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest — to catch accessibility issues during development rather than after deployment.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm install axe-core --save-dev
- npm run build -- --lang=nl
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Automated accessibility testing is a huge timesaver, it doesn't require special expertise, and it allows teams to focus expert resources on the accessibility issues that really need them. Unfortunately, most accessibi...
- Axe can be built using your local language. To do so, a localization file must be added to the ./locales directory. This file must be named in the following manner: .json. To build axe using this locale, ins...
- Additionally, locale can be applied at runtime by passing a locale object to axe.configure(). The locale object must be of the same shape as existing locales in the ./locales directory. For example:
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
First download the package:
console
Now include the javascript file in each of your iframes in your fixtures or test systems:
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dequelabs/axe-core/HEAD/README.md