automated-accessibility-testing

Automated Accessibility Testing

Part 1: Automate A11y Tests and integrate them in your CI pipeline (Vero)

My name is Vero, I work as a Software Engineer at MaibornWolff

During Part 1 of this session I took my fellow coders through an example how I set up up automated accessibility tests.

The steps and the code can be found in this repo: https://github.com/veronika-hillebrand-mw/axe-core-react-demo

Thanks to everyone who came and made the session fun ❤️

Part 2: Open discussion about A11y testing (Sophia)

How can we go beyond the basic tests and automate something like tests for screenreader accessibility?

So far, noone has tests like this in place. However, there is a manual way of testing this by using the "Guided Tests" in the Axe DevTools

People also recommended constructing tests using the Playwright Codegen Tool, since it uses compliant selectors - for example: roles instead of test-ids.