Selenium Webdriver driven accessibility testing module to check for webpage accessibility compliance
- Generic accessibility compliance test that runs through a webpage looking for accessibility errors and warnings
- accessibilityCop-0.1.1.jar built with basic set of 14 accessibility checkpoints that applies to most webpages
- Selenium Webdriver, TestNg and Java
- Design and develop seleniumAccessibility jar with basic accessibility checkpoints - 14 rules
- Gather feedback from accessibility experts and further improve depth of testing and rules coverage
- Socialize accessibility testing to be part of mainstream quality testing efforts
- Download latest version of accessibility test jar file from here : accessibilityCop-0.1.1.jar
- Include this jar as part of your existing selenium project
- Create selenium test to feed in webpage urls that needs to be tested for accessibility compliance
- Add appropriate assertions to validate errors/warnings returned by runAcopChecks() method
- 14-point check for accessibility compliance
- Adds errors, warnings to acopErrorList; Also prints log information related to accessibility checks
- Returns acopErrorList to the testNg test
- if acopErrorList is empty - no accessibility issues on webpage
- if acopErrorList is not empty - accessibility issues found on webpage
/**
* sampleAcopChecks
*
*/
@Test(groups = { "Accessibility"})
public void sampleAcopChecks() {
final String url = "http://www.intuit.com";
driver.get(url);
ACopChecksV1 sbc = new ACopChecksV1(driver);
List<String> getAccessibilityErrors = sbc.runAcopChecks();
Assert.assertTrue(getAccessibilityErrors.isEmpty(), " Accessibility errors found for webpage - " +url);
}
<!DOCTYPE Resource SYSTEM 'foo.dtd'>
- Doctype should be specified if frame or iframe elements exist on the page
- HTML visual formatting elements like
<b></b>,<i></i>,<center></center>,<font></font>,<u></u>should not be used. Use CSS for formatting instead
<title></title>
- Page title element should not be empty or missing
- There should not be more than one page title
<body><p><h1>Heading 1</h1><h2>Heading 2</h2><p><h3>Heading 3</h3></p></body>
- Page must contain atleast one h1 element
- The h1 element should have non empty text
- Heading elements that follow the h1 element should be properly nested
- All subheadings(h2..h6) should have non empty text
<html lang='en'></html>
- You should declare the primary language of a page with the html lang attribute
<body><a href="www.google.com">Go to Google</a></body>
- Hyperlinks should always have text associated with them
- There should not be duplicate text for hyperlinks on the same page
<input type='image'...
- Image inputs elements should have alt attributes
- Image inputs elements should not have alt attributes empty
<img...
- Image elements should have alt attributes
<a><img...
- Image elements inside anchor tags should have empty alt attributes
<area shape='rect' coords='0,0,82,126' href='sun.htm' alt='Sun'>
- Area elements should have an alt attribute
- Area element alt attribute cannot be empty
- The blink and marquee elements must not be used. Blinking and moving text are an accessibility problems for people with photosenstive epilepsy and visual impairments.
<form><textarea id='area' rows='3' cols='3'></textarea><label for='area'/></form>
- Every form element should have a corresponding label (the label 'for' attribute should match the form field 'id' attribute)
<form><input id='in' type='text' value="input_value"/></form>
- Form input elements of type submit|reset|button should not have labels, instead have a non empty 'value' attribute
<label for="label1">Label 1</label><label for="label2">Label 2</label>
- Labels for form controls should have non-empty text
<legend>Legend 1</legend>
- Legends specified for fieldsets or otherwise should have non-empty text
<button type="button">Button 1</button>
- Buttons should have non-empty text
<table summary="summary"><th>Table Heading</th><tr><td>Data 1</td></tr></table>
- Table should have a table header
- Table should have a non empty summary attribute
- Table headers should have a non empty scope attribute specifying whether it is for a row or column
w3c Web Content Accessibility Guildelines
Report bugs and requests at seleniumAccessibility Github page
- Anil Suryanarayana - https://github.com/neurites/seleniumAccessibility
- Accessibility Guru - Ted Drake
- Senior Marketing Product Manager - Niru Anisetti
Copyright 2014 by Anil Suryanarayana under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file).