Questions tagged a11y
Accessibility checks and what the runner does with them today.
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Our brand indigo measures 4.47:1 on white — do we have to change the brand?
Audit finding we cannot argue our way out of. The brand colour is an indigo that measures 4.47:1 against white, which is under the line by a hair, and it is used for links, for…
asked by Paulo MendesIf we wire an accessibility checker in ourselves, why does everyone insist on human triage?
We accepted that the tag does nothing and we are adding our own step, so we will shortly have a machine-readable list of violations per page. The advice I keep getting is "do not…
asked by Tanvi BhattTwo documentation pages say opposite things about @a11y. Which one should I believe?
Not a bug report, a request for a ruling, because I have to tell a client which it is. The guide describes a hook that runs an accessibility pass after each UI step, violations…
asked by Rasha HalabiTagged a scenario @a11y and it went green in four seconds — how do I tell if axe ran?
Added @a11y to two existing scenarios expecting them to get slower and probably to fail, because the pages in question are not good. Both passed, in about the same time as…
asked by Koen VermeulenLint says the accessibility step is undefined, but the step library reference lists it
Copied the scenario straight out of Accessibility and performance budgets: The phrasing is identical to the table in the step library reference, down to the quotes. What am I…
asked by Chandra Pillai