@sa11y/wdio

Provides assertAccessible(), assertAccessibleSync() APIs that can be used with WebdriverIO to check accessibility of web pages rendered in browsers.

• Caution
• Usage
  • Async Mode (Recommended)
  • Sync Mode (Deprecated)
• API
  • assertAccessible
  • assertAccessibleSync
• Reference

Caution

• headless: Checks such as color contrast do not work in headless mode. In general executing tests in headless mode might yield different accessibility results. Hence, it is recommended to run accessibility checks in windowed mode when possible for accurate results.

Usage

Async Mode (Recommended)

import { assertAccessible } from '@sa11y/wdio';

describe('demonstrate usage of @sa11y/wdio', () => {
    it('should demonstrate usage of assertAccessible API', async () => {
        // Navigate to page to be tested
        await browser.url('pageToBeTested.html');
        // Check for accessibility of the loaded page
        await assertAccessible();
    });

    it('should demonstrate checking a11y of a selected element', async () => {
        // Navigate to page to be tested
        await browser.url('pageToBeTested.html');
        // Check accessibility of a particular element using https://webdriver.io/docs/selectors
        await assertAccessible({ scope: browser.$('selector') });
    });

    it('should demonstrate exception list', async () => {
        // Navigate to page to be tested
        await browser.url('pageToBeTested.html');
        // Exception list is a map of rule to corresponding css targets that needs to be filtered from a11y results
        const exceptions = {
            'document-title': ['html'],
            'link-name': ['a'],
        };
        // Check for accessibility of the loaded page, filtering out results from given exception list
        await assertAccessible({ exceptionList: exceptions });
    });

    it('should demonstrate custom rules', async () => {
        await browser.url('pageToBeTested.html');
        // Use extended ruleset for more comprehensive checking
        await assertAccessible({ rules: extended });
    });
});

Sync Mode (Deprecated)

Note: WebdriverIO sync mode is deprecated. Please use async mode for new projects.

import { assertAccessibleSync } from '@sa11y/wdio';

describe('demonstrate usage of @sa11y/wdio sync', () => {
    it('should demonstrate usage of assertAccessibleSync API', () => {
        return sync(() => {
            // Navigate to page to be tested
            browser.url('pageToBeTested.html');
            // Check for accessibility of the loaded page
            assertAccessibleSync();
        });
    });
});

API

assertAccessible

Asynchronous API for checking accessibility in WebdriverIO tests.

Signature:

async function assertAccessible(options?: {
    driver?: WebdriverIO.Browser;
    scope?: WebdriverIO.Element;
    rules?: A11yConfig;
    exceptionList?: Record<string, string[]>;
}): Promise<void>;

Parameters:

• options (optional): Configuration object
  • driver: WDIO BrowserObject instance. Created automatically by WDIO test runner.
  • scope: Element to check for accessibility. Defaults to the entire document.
  • rules: Preset rules configuration. Defaults to base ruleset.
  • exceptionList: Map of rule id to corresponding CSS targets to be filtered from results.

assertAccessibleSync

Synchronous API for checking accessibility (deprecated with WebdriverIO sync mode).

Signature:

function assertAccessibleSync(options?: {
    driver?: WebdriverIO.Browser;
    scope?: WebdriverIO.Element;
    rules?: A11yConfig;
    exceptionList?: Record<string, string[]>;
}): void;

Reference

• Sync mode vs async · WebdriverIO