Axe Accessibility Testing Library Philosophy

The web can only become an accessible, inclusive space if developers are empowered to take responsibility for accessibility testing and accessible coding practices.

Automated accessibility testing is a huge time saver. It doesn’t require special expertise and it allows teams to focus expert resources on the accessibility issues that are most important. Unfortunately, most accessibility tools are meant to be run on sites and applications that have reached the end of the development process and they often don’t give clear or consistent results, causing frustration and delays just when you thought your product was ready to ship.

Axe was built to reflect how web development actually works. It works with all the modern browsers, tools, and testing environments a development team might use. With Axe, accessibility testing can be performed as part of your unit testing, integration testing, browser testing, and any other functional testing your team already performs on a day-to-day basis. Building accessibility testing into the early development process saves time, resources, and all kinds of frustration.