The Future of axe Tools
summary
Axe tooling now reports 1 billion npm downloads, 16 million weekly downloads, 8.7 million GitHub projects and 209 contributors, and ships eight releases in the last year. New builds include a Figma plugin that auto-annotates form fields and focus order via AI, an Appium plugin and mobile analyzer codeless testing for any native or cross‑platform app, DevTools extension with 100% in‑extension testing and secure offline mode, DevHub watcher for CI (Cypress/Playwright/Puppeteer/WebDriver.io), and an LLM "axe Advisor" in Deque University.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and axe-core growth
- 3:00axe for Designers Figma plugin
- 7:00axe Auditor updates and features
- 10:00axe Monitor new UI and reporting
- 13:00axe Community and Discord launch
- 16:00Mobile accessibility testing advances
- 21:00axe DevTools extension and Pro features
- 28:00axe DevTools HTML and Developer Hub
- 34:00Deque University updates and axe Advisor
- 42:00Q&A session
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