Nightwatch Accessibility

Nightwatch.js utility assertion for accessibility testing with aXe.

Install

npm install nightwatch-accessibility

Usage

Nightwatch >= 2.x

add nightwatch-accessibility to the plugins array

{
  plugins: ['nightwatch-accessibility']
}

Nightwatch <= 1.x

{
  custom_commands_path: ["./node_modules/nightwatch-accessibility/nightwatch/commands"],
  custom_assertions_path: ["./node_modules/nightwatch-accessibility/nightwatch/assertions"]
}

Use in your tests:

module.exports = {
  'Test': function (browser) {
    browser
      // initiate aXe
      .initAccessibility() 

      // execute accessibility check
      .assert.accessibility('#app', {
        verbose: true,
        rules: {
          'color-contrast': { enabled: false }
        }
      })
  }
}

API

browser.initAccessibility()

Injects the aXe library into the current test page.

browser.assert.accessibility(context, options)

Analyzes the defined context against applied aXe rules

In addition to the standard options:

• options.verbose set to true will log all successful aXe tests.

• options.timeout configures the nightwatch timeout, default value is 500 milliseconds

Author: Ahmad Nassri • Twitter: @AhmadNassri