{"slug":"axe-core-accessibility-testing-engine-for-automated-web-ui-auditing","title":"axe-core Accessibility Testing Engine for Automated Web UI Auditing","summary":"axe-core is the industry-standard accessibility testing engine by Deque Systems that automatically detects WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 violations in web interfaces. 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It integrates into any existing test framework — Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest — to catch accessibility issues during development rather than after deployment.\"\ngithub_stars: 7010\nverification: \"security_reviewed\"\nsource: \"https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core\"\nauthor: \"Deque Systems Inc.\"\ncategory: \"Code Quality &amp; Review\"\nframework: \"Multi-Framework\"\ntool_ecosystem:\ngithub_repo: \"dequelabs/axe-core\"\ngithub_stars: 7010\nnpm_package: \"axe-core\"\nnpm_weekly_downloads: 39427202</h2>\n<h1>axe-core Accessibility Testing Engine for Automated Web UI Auditing</h1>\n<p>axe-core is the industry-standard accessibility testing engine by Deque Systems that automatically detects WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 violations in web interfaces. It integrates into any existing test framework — Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest — to catch accessibility issues during development rather than after deployment.</p>\n<h2>Installation</h2>\n<p>Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>npm install axe-core --save-dev</li>\n<li>npm run build -- --lang=nl</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Requirements and caveats from upstream:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automated accessibility testing is a huge timesaver, it doesn't require special expertise, and it allows teams to focus expert resources on the accessibility issues that really need them. Unfortunately, most accessibi...</li>\n<li>Axe can be built using your local language. To do so, a localization file must be added to the ./locales directory. This file must be named in the following manner: </li>\n<li>Additionally, locale can be applied at runtime by passing a locale object to axe.configure(). The locale object must be of the same shape as existing locales in the ./locales directory. For example:</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Basic usage or getting-started notes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>First download the package:</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>console</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Now include the javascript file in each of your iframes in your fixtures or test systems:</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Source: <a href=\"https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core\">https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core</a></p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Extracted from upstream docs: <a href=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dequelabs/axe-core/HEAD/README.md\">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dequelabs/axe-core/HEAD/README.md</a></p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Documentation</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.deque.com/axe/\">https://www.deque.com/axe/</a></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Source</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/axe-core-accessibility-testing-engine/\">Agent Skill Exchange</a></li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":2524,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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