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Re:Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web pro... by extra88 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:57AM (#23246303)
There are web services to add accessibility checks to your CI processes. https://tenon.io is one, Deque has services. Deque makes axe-core, an open source library of accessibility checks that's used by Google's Lighthouse and Microsoft's Accessibility Insights for Web.

This code from IBM uses their own accessibility checklist, I'll be interested to see how it compares to axe-core.

https://www.ibm.com/able/checklists.html

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Re:Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web pro... by thbrunet on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:14AM (#23272976)
The accessibility-checker package provides CI tools for Node and Karma. These tools started out as server-based checkers about a decade ago, but not all DOMs are serializable and you lose a lot of the CSS context that's needed to do proper evaluation. It's fine for fairly static pages, but has a lot of potential for false positives/negatives.

The tools provide checking for WCAG 2.0 AA, WCAG 2.1 AA and the IBM checklist. The IBM checklist is basically WCAG 2.1 AA, but has some more strict requirements for defining landmarks for screen reader navigation.

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