Automated Accessibility Testing

Setting up automated accessibility tests is a great enhancement of accessibility testing practices. It does not replace the need for manual testing, but it can help catch mistakes in your markup.

• Lighthouse: An auditing tool that can be run in Chrome Dev tools or from the command line
• Axe: An accessibility testing tool that can be run as a browser extension or in the command line
• Pa11y: An accessibility testing tool that runs HTML CodeSniffer from the command line
• Pa11y Ci: A CI centric version of Pa11y, used to test multiple urls