Continuous Accessibility: Adding Lighthouse to Your CI/CD Pipeline
summary
Shows how to run Google Lighthouse from the CLI and CI/CD to produce HTML/JSON/CSV reports, throttle mobile emulation, and limit audits to accessibility; demonstrates site-wide crawling with unlighthouse and notes that Lighthouse uses axe under the hood. Gives concrete metrics: Lighthouse downloads ~1M/week, webaim finds 81% of pages with color-contrast failures, 97% of accessibility faults fall into six categories, and a scan of 8,724 federal pages finds ~665,000 errors. Presents working sites (section508pro.com, accessibilityview.com) that automate audits and track regressions.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to accessibility
- 2:05What is Google Lighthouse
- 9:32Accessibility insights from Lighthouse
- 15:16Manual testing with additional tools
- 25:17Automating Lighthouse in CI/CD
- 38:04Continuous accessibility testing
- 42:23Auditing authenticated websites
- 45:47Case study: Section 508 compliance
- 52:53WCAG standards and Lighthouse
- 55:40Conclusion and resources
