Sa11y

Meet Sa11y, the accessibility quality assurance assistant. Sa11y is a customizable, framework-agnostic JavaScript plugin. Sa11y works as a simple in-page checker that visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues. Geared towards content authors, Sa11y straightforwardly identifies errors or warnings at the source with a simple tooltip on how to fix them. Sa11y is not a comprehensive code analysis tool; it exclusively highlights content issues.

• Project website 🌐
• Developer documentation 📓
• Demo 🚀
• Report an issue 🐜
• Install the WordPress plugin 💻
• WordPress plugin development repo 🛠
• Acknowledgements 👤

Contributing

Want to help translate or improve Sa11y? Consider contributing! Translations may either be contributed back to the repository with a pull request, or translated files can be returned to: [email protected]

Contact

Have a question or any feedback? Email: [email protected]

Install

Sa11y is a framework-agnostic JavaScript plugin. It's made with vanilla JavaScript and CSS, and its only dependency is Tippy.js - a highly customizable tooltip library that features a positioning system.

To install on your website, insert Sa11y right before the closing

tag. Sa11y consists of four files:

• sa11y.css - The main stylesheet. Should be included in the of the document (if possible).
• lang/en.js - All text strings and tooltip messages. View supported languages.
• sa11y.js - Contains all logic.
• (Optional) sa11y-custom-checks.js - Any custom checks created by you.

NPM

npm i sa11y

Example installation (modules)

<!-- Stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/sa11y.css"/>

<!-- JavaScript >
<script type="module">
  import { Sa11y, Lang } from '../assets/js/sa11y.esm.js';
  import Sa11yLangEn from '../assets/js/lang/en.js';
  import CustomChecks from '../assets/js/sa11y-custom-checks.esm.js'; // Optional

  // Set translations
  Lang.addI18n(Sa11yLangEn.strings);

  // Instantiate
  const sa11y = new Sa11y({
    customChecks: new CustomChecks, // Optional
    checkRoot: "body",
    readabilityRoot: "main",
  });
</script>

Example installation (regular script)

<!-- Stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/sa11y.css"/>

<!-- JavaScript -->
<script src="/dist/js/sa11y.umd.min.js"></script>
<script src="/dist/js/lang/en.umd.js"></script>

<!-- Optional: Custom checks -->
<script src="/dist/js/sa11y-custom-checks.umd.min.js"></script>

<!-- Instantiate -->
<script>
  Sa11y.Lang.addI18n(Sa11yLangEn.strings);
  const sa11y = new Sa11y.Sa11y({
    customChecks: new CustomChecks, // Optional
    checkRoot: "body",
    readabilityRoot: "main",
  });
</script>

CDN

Please visit developer documentation for CDN installation instructions.

Development environment

A light server for development is included. Any change inside /src folder files will trigger the build process for the files and will reload the page with the new changes. To use this environment:

1. Clone this repo.
2. Be sure you have node installed and up to date.
3. Execute npm install
4. In a terminal execute: npm run serve. Then open http://localhost:8080/docs/demo/en/ in your browser.