Testing Website Accessibility with Axe and WebdriverIO

Today, we look at Axe (a website accessibility test tool) and how we can integrate it with WebdriverIO. I use it to test the WebdriverIO homepage, revealing a few accessibility errors which cause the test to fail.

Code from the episode: https://github.com/klamping/wdio-axe-example

The original WebdriverIO/Axe issue: https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio/issues/2303

Axe: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core

ExecuteAsync, the command that saved the day! http://webdriver.io/api/protocol/executeAsync.html

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Recorded on Oct 4th, 2017

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