AccessSniff Extended

A CLI, JsDom and PhantomJs library for HTML_CodeSniffer

This fork writes the report, even if errors are detected in input files.

• Gulp plugin
• Grunt plugin

Getting Started

Install this plugin with npm install access-sniff-ext --save

ES5

var AccessSniff = require('access-sniff-ext');

AccessSniff
  .default(['**/*.html'], options)
  .then(function(report) {
    AccessSniff.report(report, reportOptions);
  });

ES6

import AccessSniff, { reports as AccessReports } from 'access-sniff-ext';

AccessSniff(['**/*.html'], options)
  .then(report => AccessReports(report, reportOptions));

CLI

npm install access-sniff-ext -g
sniff test/**/*.html -r json -l reports

AccessSniff can test both locally hosted files and websites.

sniff http://statamic.com/ -r json -l reports

Options

You can pass the following options

Accessibility Level

accessibilityLevel is a string

options: {
  accessibilityLevel: 'WCAG2A'
}

Levels are WCAG2A, WCAG2AA, WCAG2AAA, and Section508

Accessibilityrc

You can create an .accessibilityrc file in your project to set options:

{
  "ignore": [
    "WCAG2A.Principle2.Guideline2_4.2_4_2.H25.1.NoTitleEl",
    "WCAG2A.Principle3.Guideline3_1.3_1_1.H57.2"
  ]
}

Ignore By Rule Identifier

ignore is an array

You can ignore rules by placing them in an array outlined below.

options: {
  ignore: [
    'WCAG2A.Principle2.Guideline2_4.2_4_2.H25.1.NoTitleEl'
    'WCAG2A.Principle3.Guideline3_1.3_1_1.H57.2'
  ]
}

Rules will also match to remove and entire set.

WCAG2A.Principle2.Guideline2_4.2_4_2.H25.1 will ignore WCAG2A.Principle2.Guideline2_4.2_4_2.H25.1.NoTitleEl

Ignore By Other Information

ignoreByDescription, ignoreByElement, ignoreByClass and ignoreById are arrays

You can ignore rules by including their description, element content, CSS class or HTML ID in their full as string, or by including regular expression matching their textual value. This can be useful to ignore only some problem occurrences, which are "false positives", while retaining the other checks done by the same rule.

options: {
  ignoreByDescription: [
    'This form field should be labelled in some way. Use the label element ' +
    '(either with a "for" attribute or wrapped around the form field), or ' +
    '"title", "aria-label" or "aria-labelledby" attributes as appropriate.',
    /^This element has a role of "\w+" but does not have a name available to an accessibility API\. Valid names are: [^.]+\.$/
  ],
  ignoreByElement: [
    /^<a id="herpDerp" class="[^"]*" href="test">Test<\/a>$/
  ],
  ignoreByClass: [
    /\bcustom-checkbox\b/
  ],
  ignoreById: [
    'select-all'
  ]
}

Error levels

errorLevels is an object

  options: {
    errorLevels: {
      notice: false,
      warning: false,
      error: true
    }
  }

If an issue of a certain level is found and this level is flagged by true in errorLevels, validation will fail

Verbose output

verbose is a boolean

options: {
  verbose: false
}

Output messages to console, set to true by default

Force

force is a boolean, defaults to false

options: {
  force: true
}

Continue running in the event of failures. You can catch failures from the promise as below:

AccessSniff(['**/*.html'], options)
.then(report => AccessReports(report, reportOptions));
.catch(error => console.error(error))

Browser

browser is a boolean, defaults to false

options: {
  browser: false
}

AccessSniff uses jsDom as the default, setting this to true will use PhantomJs instead

maxBuffer

maxBuffer is a number, defaults to 500*1024

In certain situations you might have to increase the memory allocated to render a page.

options: {
  maxBuffer: 500*1024
}

Reports

You can pass the following options to the report generator

Notes

• Reports are now generated from the returned json to the report module
• Report location is required to write a report
• Reports return the content from the report

Modular Reporting

You can use the inbuilt system or create your own

AccessSniff.report(report, reportOptions)

Report Type

reportType is a string

options: {
  reportType: 'json'
}

Text, CSV or JSON format output

• txt will output text files
• json will output .json files
• csv will output csv

Report Location

reportLocation is a string

  options: {
    reportLocation: 'reports'
  }

Set the value to where you want reports created

Report Levels

reportLevels is an object

  options: {
    reportLevels: {
      notice: true,
      warning: true,
      error: true
    }
  }

Set a value to false to limit output

CLI

You can use the CLI component by installing it globally with npm install -g access-sniff-ext

sniff test/**/*.html -r json -l reports
sniff test/**/*.html -r csv -l reports
sniff test/**/*.html -r txt -l reports

Options

Error Levels

-e or -errorLevels

Combination of comma-delimited error, warning and notice.

Report Type

-r or -reportType

txt, csv, json.

Report Location

-r or -reportLocation

Force

-f or -force

Quiet

-q or -quiet