Web Accessibility Testing With Axe-Core

Aaron Berry
5 min readMar 28, 2020

When we build applications we like to make sure that they work. To assure this we would write our normal unit, stub and integration tests. However, one thing that isn’t usually being tested in these suits is the accessibility of our web applications.

In comes axe-core which as been developed by deque systems. I’ll briefly outline how we can easily configure and use axe for our needs and how it can be integrated into your current tooling so we can start finding (and fixing!) accessibility defects in our web applications TODAY 😃

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Aaron Berry

Software Engineer working in Data Engineer and DevOps. Tinkering with anything automation, containers and servers in the cloud.