nemo-accessibility

nemo-accessibility is a nemo plugin aimed to run accessibility scans during nemo tests. nemo-accessibility plugin uses AATT api from AATT to run accessibility scans on a given page or on a given element on a page.

Installation

npm install nemo-accessibility --save-dev

Configuration

Add nemo-accessibility to your config/nemo-plugins.json file. Pass AATT api as a plugin argument like below

 "nemo-accessibility":{
        "module":"nemo-accessibility",
        "arguments": ["https://your_nodejs_accessibility_server/evaluate"]
    }

Details

Once nemo-accessibility plugin is registered, you should now have nemo.accessibility namespace available in your tests. nemo.accessibility exposes a method called scan to help you run accessibility evaluation against your page/element. scan method takes an optional object like below,

 var options = {
    'priority': 'P1' or ['P1','P2','P3'], //expects either a string or an array; default is ['P1','P2','P3','P4']
    'element': driver.findElement(wd.tagName('iframe')), //default is entire page
    'output': 'html' or 'json' //default is html
 }

scan method returns a promise with resulting HTML or json response from AATT api when fulfilled. You can then write the HTML to a file or parse JSON response for later reporting. For example,

   nemo.driver.get('http://www.paypal.com');
   nemo.accessibility.scan().then(function (result) {
     fs.writeFile('report/accessibility.html', result, function (err) {
         done();
     });
   });

You could also run accessibility scan on a certain element like below. This is useful when lets say you scanned an entire page already, and subsequently a certain automated test interaction opened a dialog box; you can now only scan newly opened dialog box since you already scanned the rest of the page before.

Here is a example, (note this example uses excellent nemo-view plugin for finding elements)

  it('will run scan on an element', function (done) {
        nemo.driver.get('http://www.paypal.com');
        var options = {
            'priority': ['P1', 'P2'],
            'source': 'btnDonate',
            'engine' : 'htmlcs'
        };        
        nemo.accessibility.scan(options).then(function (result) {
            fs.writeFile('report/entirePage.html',result,function (err) {
               done();
            });
        });
        var welcomePage = nemo.view.welcomePage;
        welcomePage.buttonThatOpensAPopup().click();
        var element = welcomePage.popup(),
            options = {
                'priority': ['P1', 'P2'],
                'element': element,
                'engine' : 'axe'
            };
        nemo.accessibility.scan(options).then(function (result) {
            fs.writeFile('report/scanAnElement.html', result, function (err) {
                done();
            });
        });
    });

Like HTML output one could also get json output result from nemo-accessibility plugin and parse the json response to mark your tests passed or failed based on your criteria.

For example,

 it('will run scan and return JSON', function (done) {
        nemo.driver.get('http://www.paypal.com');
        var options = {
                'priority': ['P1', 'P2'],
                'output': 'json'
            },
            count=0;           
            nemo.accessibility.scan(options).then(function (results) {
              results.forEach(function(result){
              if(result.priority === 'P1'){
                count ++;
              }
           });
           assert.equal(count,0,'P1 Errors exist in the current page, please check \n'+ results);
        });
    });

##Example In this project a sample nemo-accessibility plugin test is written under example/usingNemoAccessibility.js. As mentioned above nemo-accessibility plugin uses AATT api from AATT to run accessibility scans on a given page/element. Therefore to run the sample nemo-accessibility test, first we need to setup AATT which is pretty straightforward and should be done in a few minutes with steps below. If AATT is already setup, please skip this step

git clone https://github.com/paypal/AATT.git
cd AATT
npm install
git submodule init
git submodule update
$ node app.js

You can also find above instructions in detail over here

Once AATT is running on default port of 80, you can switch back to nemo-accessibility project and run a sample test like below

npm install
DEBUG=nemo* node example/usingNemoAccessibility.js

Test will launch a firefox browser and redirect to www.paypal.com and it will run accessibility scan. Once scanning is complete, accessibility results will be written to a file example/defaultOptions.html

##Summary The idea behind this plugin is that during the course of nemo test, run accessibility scan;write the HTML output to a file or parse JSON for reporting;perform some selenium actions;run the scan again;report the output and so on.

##Support Please file a Nemo a11y plugin issue for any nemo plugin related questions or file a issue for AATT for any AATT related questions

Copyright and License

Copyright 2016, PayPal under the BSD license.