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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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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:01:28 AM UTC.

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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*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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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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snupix·Oct 23, 2025Submission

Show HN: Open-Source Accessibility Testing for the Web

Our team at Clym built an open-source Accessibility Testing tool to help developers and auditors identify and fix web accessibility issues, combining automated and manual testing in one place. Our tool integrates the open-source axe-core[1] library for automated testing against WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and EN 301 549 standards. For issues that automation can't reliably detect, it includes manual review workflows that guide testers through contextual checks (like keyboard navigation and visual contrast validation). It can also generate Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) in multiple formats and allows teams to define their own rules, mappings and remediation steps through a simple configuration layer. You can view and contribute to the project on our github[2] or download the app for Mac, Windows and Linux on our website[3]. We'd love feedb
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ack from developers or accessibility testers — especially around how you combine automated and manual checks today, and what integrations would make this more useful. [1] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core [2] https://github.com/clymio/accessibility-tools [3] https://www.clym.io/products/accessibility-tools
18 points · Open discussion
tarasyarema·Sep 23, 2025Submission

Show HN: Evaluate your website usability in seconds

Hello HN! I'm working on a project called desplega.ai, and today we wanted to share a free tool we built to find usability and accessibility issues in your sites. We used our engine for browser navigation (fully custom on top of Playwright) in conjunction with the axe-core engine (https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core) to find the usability and accessibility issues as we explore your application in seconds. Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think! It's free and there's no sign-up required to see how it works and the live results (we may ask for your email if you want to see a cool report tho, I guess it's fair? :D) Note for vibecoders: You can just use your deployment URL and copy paste the full report to the v0/replit/lovable/bolt chat to fix them :D (shortcut https://app.desplega.ai/demo/landing-1?url=<your_url>) Cheers,
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