Make Yourself Accessible: New Rails Apps

• axe-core-gems

  1 81 7.5 Ruby

  Ruby integration for axe-core, the accessibility testing engine

  

Don't guess. Automated accessibility checks can't expect to cover EVERY potential issue in your codebase, but applying a consistent set of rules will be easier if you have a defined set of rules for your test suite to reference. So find a good accessibility standard, and stick to it. That'll probably be some version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), which are used by axe (which I'll talk about in a second).

• Selenium WebDriver

  63 29,383 9.9 Java

  A browser automation framework and ecosystem.

  

A library like Selenium or Cuprite that performs automated browser checks. It needs to use JS, unless your site doesn't use any JS. Or won't need to ever, in any case, for any reason or feature. These examples use Capybara system specs, which can be backed by a number of different drivers. See here.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• axe-core

  75 5,660 9.1 JavaScript

  Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing

  

An accessibility plugin for your system tests and a reference document. Deque Labs has a lot of excellent resources for implementing accessibility checks that meet the WCAG 2.1 standard. They also maintain axe, which we'll use to run automated checks. The rules reference list for axe version 4.4 can be found here. If you need more context, I've also found the MDN docs for Accessibility to be really, really good. Again, those are here.

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