A11Y Analyzer

Test accessibility with in Cypress.

Installation

1. Install a11y-analyzer from npm:

npm install --save-dev a11y-analyzer

2. Install peer dependencies:

npm install --save-dev axe-core cypress cypress-axe cypress-terminal-report http-server start-server-and-test

3. Configure Cypress.

• Run the command below:

npx cypress open

Then cypress will opens a window dialogue like this one:
Selecting E2E Testing it will create a configuration environment for us.
Just hit the continue button and select a browser to start testing. Afterwards you can create your first spec with Cypress in this interface or you can create your specs mannualy inside the folder cypress/e2e.

After hit create and run your test inside the interface of tests of the Cypress.

4. Include the commands.

• Update cypress/support/e2e.js file to include the cypress-axe commands by adding:

import 'a11y-analyzer'

5. Include the configuration.

• Update cypress.config.js file to include the a11y-analyzer commands by adding:

const { defineConfig } = require("cypress");

module.exports = defineConfig({
  env: {
    "hideElements": true              // To hide elements like XHR requests
  },
  e2e: {
    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080', // Choose you localhost
    screenshotOnRunFailure: false,    // Don't take screenshots
    video: false,                     // Don't record videos
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      require('cypress-terminal-report/src/installLogsPrinter')(on);
    },
  },
});

NOTE: To use require import, make sure there ins't a "type": "module", inside your package.json and if using typescript and es6 imports ensure esModuleInterop is enabled.

Commands

cy.analyseA11y

This will inject the axe-core runtime into the page under test.

it('Test', () => {
  cy.analyseA11y('http://localhost:8080')
})

Examples

Basic usage

describe('Example tests', () => {  
  it('Should log any accessibility failures', () => {
    cy.analyseA11y('https://example.cypress.io');
  })

  it('Should execute ONLY specific elements on the page', () => {
    cy.analyseA11y('https://example.cypress.io', '.container', null);
  })
  
  it('Should exclude specific elements on the page', () => {
    cy.analyseA11y('https://example.cypress.io', { exclude: ['.banner'] }, null);
  })

  it('Should ONLY include rules with serious and critical impacts', () => {
    cy.analyseA11y('https://example.cypress.io', null, {
      includedImpacts: ['critical', 'serious']
    });
  })

  it('Should exclude specific accessibility rules', () => {
    cy.analyseA11y('https://example.cypress.io', null, {
      rules: {
        'color-contrast': { enabled: false }
      }
    });
  })

  it('Should ONLY include rules with these levels of conformance', () => {
    cy.analyseA11y('https://example.cypress.io', null, {
      runOnly: {
          type: 'tag',
          values: ['wcag2a', 'wcag2aa']
        }
      }
    );
  })
})

Standard Output

When accessibility violations are detected, your test will fail and an entry titled "A11Y ERROR!" will be added to the command log for each type of violation found (they will be above the failed assertion). Clicking on those will can see where they are on screen and more like impact and a link to a documentation from Axe-core.

A similar output is present on terminal and on CI logs.

Authors

The project was created by Guilherme Almeida.

Contributors

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

MIT License, see the included License.md file.