9 best JavaScript Accessibility Testing libraries in 2024

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Accessibility testing is crucial to ensure a product is usable by the majority of its target audience. The disabled community represents around 15% of the U.S population, but it is still often overlooked in design and testing efforts. Plus, accessibility testing is not just about people with disabilities, it also aims at making products usable by older people or users with temporary disabilities (e.g., when using a phone with one hand). In this kit, we will review the best JavaScript Accessibility Testing libraries available pa11y - Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal; spearmint - accessibilityfirst GUI for generating clean; quail - Accessibility testing in the browser and on the server.

pa11yby pa11y

JavaScript doticonstar image 3587 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
License: Weak Copyleft (LGPL-3.0)

Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal

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            pa11yby pa11y

            JavaScript doticon star image 3587 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon License: Weak Copyleft (LGPL-3.0)

            Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal
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                      spearmintby open-source-labs

                      TypeScript doticonstar image 1220 doticonVersion:v0.14.0doticon
                      License: Permissive (MIT)

                      Testing, simplified. || An inclusive, accessibility-first GUI for generating clean, semantic Javascript tests in only a few clicks of a button.

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                                spearmintby open-source-labs

                                TypeScript doticon star image 1220 doticonVersion:v0.14.0doticon License: Permissive (MIT)

                                Testing, simplified. || An inclusive, accessibility-first GUI for generating clean, semantic Javascript tests in only a few clicks of a button.
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                                          JavaScript doticonstar image 924 doticonVersion:3.3.0doticon
                                          License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-3.0)

                                          Pa11y Dashboard is a web interface which helps you monitor the accessibility of your websites

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                                                    pa11y-dashboardby pa11y

                                                    JavaScript doticon star image 924 doticonVersion:3.3.0doticon License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-3.0)

                                                    Pa11y Dashboard is a web interface which helps you monitor the accessibility of your websites
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                                                              pa11y-ciby pa11y

                                                              JavaScript doticonstar image 437 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
                                                              License: Weak Copyleft (LGPL-3.0)

                                                              Pa11y CI is a CI-centric accessibility test runner, built using Pa11y

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                                                                        pa11y-ciby pa11y

                                                                        JavaScript doticon star image 437 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon License: Weak Copyleft (LGPL-3.0)

                                                                        Pa11y CI is a CI-centric accessibility test runner, built using Pa11y
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                                                                                  quailby quailjs

                                                                                  JavaScript doticonstar image 303 doticonVersion:2.1.1doticon
                                                                                  License: Permissive (MIT)

                                                                                  Accessibility testing in the browser and on the server.

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                                                                                            quailby quailjs

                                                                                            JavaScript doticon star image 303 doticonVersion:2.1.1doticon License: Permissive (MIT)

                                                                                            Accessibility testing in the browser and on the server.
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                                                                                                      ANDIby SSAgov

                                                                                                      JavaScript doticonstar image 241 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
                                                                                                      License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                                                                      A tool to test web content for accessibility and 508 compliance.

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                                                                                                                ANDIby SSAgov

                                                                                                                JavaScript doticon star image 241 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                                                                                A tool to test web content for accessibility and 508 compliance.
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                                                                                                                          JavaScript doticonstar image 24 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
                                                                                                                          License: Permissive (BSD-3-Clause)

                                                                                                                          Automate Accessibility testing within your environment (Localhost)

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                                                                                                                                    nemo-accessibilityby paypal

                                                                                                                                    JavaScript doticon star image 24 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon License: Permissive (BSD-3-Clause)

                                                                                                                                    Automate Accessibility testing within your environment (Localhost)
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                                                                                                                                              JavaScript doticonstar image 23 doticonVersion:v6.5.0doticon
                                                                                                                                              License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                                                                                                              Runs automated accessibility tests against configurable lists of webpages

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                                                                                                                                                        a11y-tests-webby bbc

                                                                                                                                                        JavaScript doticon star image 23 doticonVersion:v6.5.0doticon License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                                                                                                                        Runs automated accessibility tests against configurable lists of webpages
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                                                                                                                                                                  gulp-pa11yby dreamzmaster

                                                                                                                                                                  JavaScript doticonstar image 10 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
                                                                                                                                                                  License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-2.0)

                                                                                                                                                                  Audit accessibility of your site using Gulp

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                                                                                                                                                                            gulp-pa11yby dreamzmaster

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