Use aXe Accessibility Engine in tests to ensure accessibility

[jancborchardt]

It seems that we could use aXe in our tests to make sure that modifications don’t break accessibility.
https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core#getting-started

@MorrisJobke @skjnldsv @juliushaertl @nextcloud/accessibility is this something we can add to our testing stack so it is run automatically?

[jancborchardt]

Ref #9224 where I used the aXe browser extension – which was very useful.

[juliusknorr]

We probably could add that to the ui-regression tests once merged. We have a real chromium running there, so we could just inject the axe scripts and check for accessibility errors on each page that is tested as well.

[juliusknorr]

where I used the aXe browser extension – which was very useful.

Thanks for that, way nicer then the WAVE extension. 👍

[jancborchardt]

@juliushaertl is the ui-regression-tests merged meanwhile? Or what’s the issue number?

[juliusknorr]

@jancborchardt I have it on my list for this week, since the new vue settings broke it somehow. But I can look into integrating aXe when I'm on it as well.

[szaimen]

Is this still valid or do we already have other accessibility tests so that it isn't needed anymore?

[juliusknorr]

Still would be good to have at some point

[juliusknorr]

I started an attempt in text with @axe-core/playwright which works quite nicely:

nextcloud/text#8081