Accessibility in today’s world is a must! Thus, in the past weeks I’ve spent some time implementing automated tests that check for accessibility issues in Sample Gallery apps. To check for accessibility issues I’ve used sa11y, a set of open source JavaScript libraries that detects machine knowable accessibility issues and that can be used with Jest, WebdriverIO or just generic JavaScript.
And why sa11y? sa11y stands for salesforce (where the library has been created and it’s widely used internally) plus a11y!
Here you have a summary of what you can do with it:
If you are interested in knowing more, take a look at the following resources:
- Blog post: Automated Accessibility Testing with sa11y
- Trailhead Live (35 min video): Automated Accessibility Testing with sa11y
- Trailhead (trail): Get Started with Web Accessibility
Happy coding!
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