Accessibility Automation for Web Apps with Python and Playwright.
This project uses HTML CodeSniffer and Deque Axe
HTML CodeSniffer : checks HTML source code and detects any Accessibility violations. Comes with standards that cover the three (A, AA & AAA) conformance levels of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and the U.S. Section 508 legislation.
Deque Axe : World’s leading digital accessibility toolkit. Powerful and accurate accessibility toolkit can get you to 80% issue coverage, or more, during development.
Features
- Simple & Easy to use
- No need of prior knowledge on Accessibility
- Works with Python Playwright
- Rich Reporting
- Open source
Installation
For maven based project add the below dependency
pip install python-a11y-playwright
Getting Started
Using HTML CodeSniffer
Below is the example usage using HTML CodeSniffer.
from pathlib import Path
from automateda11y.pw.settings import Settings
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from automateda11y.pw.htmlcsrunner import HtmlCsRunner
def json_reports_dir():
return Path(__file__).parent.parent.__str__()
with sync_playwright() as p:
Settings.report_dir = json_reports_dir() + '/reports'
browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False)
page = browser.new_page()
page.goto("http://playwright.dev")
data = HtmlCsRunner(page).execute()
browser.close()Using Deque Axe
Below is the example usage using Deque Axe.
from pathlib import Path
from automateda11y.pw.settings import Settings
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from automateda11y.pw.axerunner import AxeRunner
def json_reports_dir():
return Path(__file__).parent.parent.__str__()
with sync_playwright() as p:
Settings.report_dir = json_reports_dir() + '/reports'
browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False)
page = browser.new_page()
page.goto("http://playwright.dev")
data = AxeRunner(page).execute()
browser.close()
