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axe-core

Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing

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What it is

Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year14 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-06-10 19:46:58 UTC to 2026-02-24 02:15:07 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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karussell·Jul 20, 2020
Really nice tool, thanks! I'm more a backend developer so I might have some stupid questions: What is your competition and what are you doing better? Update: reading through this thread and a bit web search resulted in the following list: https://ghostinspector.com https://www.testim.io https://www.katalon.com https://www.cypress.io https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core https://www.mabl.com https://preflight.com > We’re taking a new approach by loading the site-under-test inside of a VM in the cloud rather than rely on a locally installed browser extension. But how would I record and test things locally? I.e. I would need a public setup right at the beginning.
In Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps
cmehdy·Jul 20, 2020
Interesting tool! And you've definition given a lot of thought to many of the problems encountered while attempting to do UI testing automation. I've written my fair share of extensive selenium stuff (and appium, but.. let's forget about those painful memories) and one thing that I found fairly "easy' to add to the suites I had written was accessibility testing (using Deque's Axe[0] tools). It literally took a few lines of code and a flag at runtime to enable the accessibility report on my Jenkins/TestNG/Selenium combo. However WCAG is constantly changing and it's hard to keep up, and even Deque is not always up to date AFAIK. Do you have plans to have accessibility testing with your tool ? (even a subset of WCAG's rules) Another thing I've noticed is the jump in pricing from Free to 100 USD/month which goes from 30mins to 6hours. T
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his might be steep for a team attempting to test out the validity of the tool against the competition - perhaps offering a first-month discounted trial or something like that would be appealing. I also haven't really seen if it is possible to enable concurrency (for example, is testing on three platforms at the same time for 10 minutes on that free tier possible? I would imagine so if one is doing the lifting with CI like Jenkins - but perhaps you have your own solutions). Tangentially related but you say your tests integrate with various CI solutions, does this mean one can extract the test results in a way that allows further processing and integration into other tools? (I'm thinking of the XMLs coming out of TestNG there). Lastly, I don't know if the time used is counted from the moment you start your VMs or browser starts, or the page is loaded, or the first step is done or something else. Clarifying that might help with a team's estimates (I had internal tests where the struggle was entirely on having the virtual environment/device/browser ready and the test was then a breeze, so the significant metric was the boot-up time). [0] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
In Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps
jka·Apr 19, 2020
While I don't yet know a ton about the accessibility software development community, I've discovered Deque Labs[1] while looking into some accessibility tooling. They have really good resources and training around accessibility for the web, and some of the software they develop[2] is incorporated into Google Lighthouse. Their guides and videos might help you get a sense for how other people use alternative access methods to interface with the web. With both the skills to write software and a deeper understanding of the use cases you'll be well-positioned to help improve things for a lot of people - I'm sure it could be tough at times, but stick with it, and best of luck to you. [1] - https://www.deque.com/services/accessibility-empathy-lab/ [2] - https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
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