Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #382 – Automated A11y Testing with Nightwatch

Today we are talking about A11y Test Automation with Nightwatch with Daniel Mundra and Ben Mullins.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/382

Topics

• What is Nightwatch
• Integration with Drupal
• Dev workflow
• How long part of Drupal core testing
• Type of a11y testing
• How does it save time
• How often do you run
• Recommendation on types of projects
• Cypress
• Contrib adoption
• Exceptions and false positives
• Resources

Resources

• Whoops library
• Accessibility testing progress in Drupal core:
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci/issues/2857808
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3293469
• Nightwatch testing
• Talking Drupal #364- Cypress
• Previous accessibility discussions:
  • Talking Drupal #371 – WebOps Enabled Accessibility
  • Talking Drupal #350 – Accessibility Scanning & Testing
• Pa11y
• Axe

Guests

Ben Mullins – www.drupal.org/u/bnjmnm Daniel Mundra – danielmundra.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin – www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi – www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Stephen Cross – www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – @mandclu Whoops Integrates a library to show detailed error reporting for better debugging.