Solutions Delivery Platform

The A11y Machine

The A11y Machine (or a11ym for short, spelled “alym”) is an automated accessibility testing tool which crawls and tests pages of any Web application to produce detailed reports.

It validates pages against the following specifications/laws:

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, including A, AA and AAA levels (understanding levels of conformance)
U.S. Section 508 legislation
W3C HTML5 Recommendation

Steps Contributed

Table 1. Steps
Step	Description
`accessibility_compliance_test()`	crawls the provided URL and performs accessibility compliance scanning

Library Configuration Options

Table 2. Configuration Options
Field	Description	Default Value
url	The url a11y will crawl and scan

A target URL can be given. However env.FRONTEND_URL supersedes all configurations. If no env.FRONTEND_URL is found then the provided target URL is used. If no URL is provided an error is thrown.

libraries{
  a11y{
    url = "https://example.com"
  }
}

Results

The results of the scan are captured in an HTML report that gets archived by jenkins.

Report Index

Report of a specific URL

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