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Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing

14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 4 stories, 10 comments · first 2015-06-10 · latest 2026-02-24

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  1. The whitepaper says that the benchmark counted accessibility problems using the tool axe-core ( https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core ). It’s too bad that neither the site nor the paper contains any examples of an LLM output and its list…
    comment by roryokane · 2026-02-24 · in WebAccessBench: Digital Accessibility Reliability in LLM-Generated Websites [pdf]
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    Show HN: Open-Source Accessibility Testing for the Web
    story by snupix · 2025-10-23 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Evaluate your website usability in seconds
    story by tarasyarema · 2025-09-23 · 0 comments
  4. …). If you have a specific issue you'd like us to investigate, try https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/issues
    comment by dbjorge · 2025-01-08 · in Automated accessibility testing at Slack
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    Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing
    story by wewtyflakes · 2024-10-09 · 36 comments
  6. axe-core licensed via MPL 2.0: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core Here is the BrowserStack extension: https://www.browserstack.com/docs/accessibility/overview/ins... I'm curious to hear more from someone who follows this space.
    comment by bklyn11201 · 2024-02-14 · in Deque Systems Sues BrowserStack for Intellectual Property Theft
  7. …you cover the basics. It can be annoying at first, but you'll get used to it. A tool like axe ( https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core ) is good for checking your work and/or automating away some of the less obvious stuff. It provides both…
    comment by bgxor · 2022-02-02 · in Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?
  8. …[2] FOSS automated accessibility testing engine for websites and other HTML-based user interfaces: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core [3] Emacspeak, developed by someone who was blind since childhood:…
    comment by throwaway82003 · 2021-05-08 · in WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #9
  9. …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…
    comment by karussell · 2020-07-20 · in Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps
  10. …ready and the test was then a breeze, so the significant metric was the boot-up time). [0] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
    comment by cmehdy · 2020-07-20 · in Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps
  11. …it, and best of luck to you. [1] - https://www.deque.com/services/accessibility-empathy-lab/ [2] - https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
    comment by jka · 2020-04-19 · in Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
  12. …help web developers target at least low hanging fruit. [1] http://khan.github.io/tota11y/ [2] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
    comment by avtar · 2016-10-28 · in Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?
  13. …testing for a CI environment, take a look at aXe, which is designed specifically for that purpose: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
    comment by mkozlows · 2015-06-29 · in Tota11y
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    AXe: The Accessibility Engine for Automated Testing of HTML-Based UIs
    story by ctoth · 2015-06-10 · 0 comments