Testing for Accessibility with aXe

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Automated accessibility tooling that runs locally and in CI actually exists: aXe is an NPM module with browser extensions and an API, axe-core aims for zero false positives and reports concrete failures (npm camp site audit shows 44 violations; Amazon returns many more), and axe-webdriverjs injects checks into real-browser end-to-end tests. Results include rule IDs, DOM nodes, and suggested fixes; tests prevent regressions and have already caught a broken radio-button state. Screen readers remain hard to automate.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:08Testing for Accessibility with aXe
3. 1:22Test automation
4. 20:10Unit testing with axe-core
5. 26:01Integration testing with axe webdriveris

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