The core allows you to perform automatic accessibility evaluations on web pages. It contains 3 evaluation modules:
You can also perform evaluations at http://qualweb.di.fc.ul.pt/evaluator/, or by installing the chrome extension.
$ npm i @qualweb/core --save 'use strict';
const { QualWeb, generateEARLReport } = require('@qualweb/core');
(async () => {
const plugins = {
// Check https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-adblocker
adBlock: true, // Default value = false
// Check https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
stealth: true // Default value = false
};
const qualweb = new QualWeb(plugins);
const clusterOptions = {
maxConcurrency: 5, // Performs several urls evaluations at the same time - the higher the number given, more resources will be used. Default value = 1
timeout: 60 * 1000, // Timeout for loading page. Default value = 30 seconds
monitor: true // Displays urls information on the terminal. Default value = false
};
const launchOptions = {
... // check https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/v10.1.0/docs/api.md#puppeteerlaunchoptions
// In most cases there's no need to give additional options. Just leave the field undefined
};
// Starts the QualWeb core engine
await qualweb.start(clusterOptions, launchOptions);
// QualWeb evaluation report
const qualwebOptions = {
url: 'https://act-rules.github.io/pages/about/',
...
};
// Evaluates the given options - will only return after all urls have finished evaluating or resulted in an error
const reports = await qualweb.evaluate(qualwebOptions);
console.log(reports);
// {
// "url": "report",
// "url2": "report2"
// }
// Stops the QualWeb core engine
await qualweb.stop();
const earlOptions = {
// Check the options in the section below
};
// if you want an EARL report
const earlReports = generateEARLReport(reports, earlOptions);
console.log(earlReports);
// {
// "url": "earlReport",
// "url2": "earlReport2"
// }
})();The available options fot the evaluate() function are:
{
"url": "https://act-rules.github.io/pages/about/", // url to evaluate
"urls": ["https://act-rules.github.io/pages/about/", "https://act-rules.github.io/rules/"], // Array of urls
"file": "/path/to/file/with/urls", // urls must be separated by a newline (\n)
"crawl": "https://act-rules.github.io", // Domain to crawl and obtain the urls
"html": "<html-code>", // Full webpage html, or just small snippets
"log": {
"file": true, // Logs errors to a file. Default value = false
"console": false // Logs errors to the console. Default value = false
},
"viewport": {
"mobile": false, // default value = false
"landscape": true, // default value = viewPort.width > viewPort.height
"userAgent": "custom user agent", // default value for desktop = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0', default value for mobile = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; DROID2 GLOBAL Build/S273) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1'
"resolution": {
"width": 1920, // default value for desktop = 1366, default value for mobile = 1080
"height": 1080 // default value for desktop = 768, default value for mobile = 1920
}
},
"waitUntil": ["load", "networkidle0"], // Events to wait before starting evaluation, default value = "load". For more check https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/v10.1.0/docs/api.md#pagegotourl-options
"validator": "http://127.0.0.1/validate", // HTML validator service endpoint. The url will be attached after of the given endpoint
"crawlOptions": {
"maxDepth": 2, // max depth to search, 0 to search only the given domain. Default value = -1 (search everything)
"maxUrls": 100, // max urls to find. Default value = -1 (search everything)
"timeout": 60, // how many seconds the domain should be crawled before it ends. Default value = -1 (never stops)
"maxParallelCrawls": 10, // max urls to crawl at the same time. Default value = 5
"logging": true // logs domain, current depth, urls found and time passed to the terminal
},
"translate": "en", // OR { "translate": "en", "fallback": "en" } OR { own translation object } check https://github.com/qualweb/locale#readme. Default = "en"
"execute": {
// choose which modules to execute
// if this option is not specified, the default values below will be applied, otherwise unspecified values will default to false
"wappalyzer": false, // wappalyzer module (https://github.com/qualweb/wappalyzer)
"act": true, // act-rules module (https://github.com/qualweb/act-rules)
"wcag": true, // wcag-techniques module (https://github.com/qualweb/wcag-techniques)
"bp": false, // best-practices module (https://github.com/qualweb/best-practices)
"counter": false // counter module (https://github.com/qualweb/counter)
},
"act-rules": {
// More information about this options at https://github.com/qualweb/act-rules
"rules": ["QW-ACT-R1", "b5c3f8"], // Array of rules to execute, can be passed the QualWeb Rule ID or the ACT Rule ID
"exclude": ["QW-ACT-R1", "b5c3f8"], // Array of rules to exclude, can be passed the QualWeb Rule ID or the ACT Rule ID
"levels": ["A", "AA", "AAA"], // Conformance levels to execute,
"principles": ["Perceivable", "Operable", "Understandable", "Robust"] // Principles to execute
},
"wcag-techniques": {
// More information about this options at https://github.com/qualweb/wcag-techniques
"techniques": ["QW-WCAG-T1", "H39"], // Array of techniques to execute, can be passed the QualWeb Technique ID or the WCAG 2.1 Technique Code
"exclude": ["QW-WCAG-T1", "H39"], // Array of techniques to exclude, can be passed the QualWeb Technique ID or the WCAG 2.1 Technique Code
"levels": ["A", "AA", "AAA"], // Conformance levels to execute,
"principles": ["Perceivable", "Operable", "Understandable", "Robust"] // Principles to execute
},
"best-practices": {
// More information about this options at https://github.com/qualweb/best-practices
"bestPractices": ["QW-BP1", "QW-BP2"], // Array of best practices to execute
"exclude": ["QW-BP1", "QW-BP2"] // Array of best practices to exclude
}
}The available options fot the generateEARLReport() function are:
{
"aggregated": true, // default value = false
"aggregatedName": "websites.json", // The name to save the aggregated earl reports. default value = first url of the list
"modules": {
// Choose which modules to convert the report to earl, by default all modules are converted if they were executed
"act": true, // default value = true
"wcag": false, // default value = true
"best-practices": false // default value = true
} // If the "modules" value is given, any missing module value missing it's automatically set to false
}In this section it's explained the evaluation report in detail. For a detailed version of the EARL report check @qualweb/earl-reporter.
{
"type": "evaluation",
"system": {
"name": "QualWeb",
"description": "QualWeb is an automatic accessibility evaluator for webpages.",
"version": "QualWeb version",
"homepage": "http://www.qualweb.di.fc.ul.pt/",
"date": "date of the evaluation",
"hash": "unique hash",
"url": {
"inputUrl": "inserted url",
"protocol": "protocol of the url",
"domainName": "domain name of the url",
"domain": "domain of the url",
"uri": "uri of the url",
"completeUrl": "complete url after all redirects"
},
"page": {
"viewport": {
"mobile": "was evaluated on a mobile context or not",
"landscape": "was evaluated on a landscape context or not",
"userAgent": "user agent used",
"resolution": {
"width": "window's width used",
"height": "window's height used",
}
},
"dom": {
"html": "html code as a string",
"title": "Title of the webpage",
"elementCount": "Element count of the webpage"
}
}
},
"metadata": {
"passed": "number of passed rules/techniques/best practices",
"warning": "number of warning rules/techniques/best practices",
"failed": "number of failed rules/techniques/best practices",
"inapplicable": "number of inapplicable rules/techniques/best practices",
},
"modules": {
"act-rules": {
"type": "act-rules",
"metadata": {
"passed": "number of passed rules",
"warning": "number of warning rules",
"failed": "number of failed rules",
"inapplicable": "number of inapplicable rules",
},
"assertions": {
"QW_ACT_R1": {
"name": "Name of the rule",
"code": "QualWeb rule id",
"mapping": "ACT rule id mapping",
"description": "Description of the rule",
"metadata": {
"target": "Any target, can be one element, multiple elements, attributes, a relation between elements",
"success-criteria?": [
{
"name": "Name of the success criteria",
"level": "Level of conformance of the success criteria",
"principle": "Principle of the success criteria",
"url": "Url of the success criteria"
}
],
"related?": [], // related WCAG 2.1 techniques
"url?": "Url of the rule",
"passed": "Number of passed results",
"warning": "Number of warning results",
"failed": "Number ff failed results",
"type?": [], // usually "ACTRule" or "TestCase"
"a11yReq?": [], // WCAG 2.1 relation - something like "WCAG21:language"
"outcome": "Outcome of the rule",
"description": "Description of the outcome";
},
"results": [
{
"verdict": "Outcome of the test",
"description": "Description of the test",
"resultCode": "Test identifier",
"pointer?": "Element pointer in CSS notation",
"htmlCode?": "Element html code",
"attributes?": "Attributes of the element",
"accessibleName?": "Accessible name of the test target"
},
{ ... }
]
},
"...": { ... }
}
},
"wcag-techniques": {
"type": "wcag-techniques",
"metadata": {
"passed": "number of passed techniques",
"warning": "number of warning techniques",
"failed": "number of failed techniques",
"inapplicable": "number of inapplicable techniques",
},
"assertions": {
"QW_WCAG_T1": {
"name": "Name of the technique",
"code": "QualWeb technique id",
"mapping": "WCAG techniques code mapping",
"description": "Description of the technique",
"metadata": {
"target": "Any target, can be one element, multiple elements, attributes, a relation between elements",
"success-criteria?": [
{
"name": "Name of the success criteria",
"level": "Level of conformance of the success criteria",
"principle": "Principle of the success criteria",
"url": "Url of the success criteria"
}
],
"related?": [], // related WCAG 2.1 techniques
"url?": "Url of the technique",
"passed": "Number of passed results",
"warning": "Number of warning results",
"failed": "Number ff failed results",
"type?": [], // usually "ACTRule" or "TestCase"
"a11yReq?": [], // WCAG 2.1 relation - something like "WCAG21:language"
"outcome": "Outcome of the technique",
"description": "Description of the outcome";
},
"results": [
{
"verdict": "Outcome of the test",
"description": "Description of the test",
"resultCode": "Test identifier",
"pointer?": "Element pointer in CSS notation",
"htmlCode?": "Element html code",
"attributes?": "Attributes of the element" // if available
},
{ ... }
]
},
"...": { ... }
}
},
"best-practices": {
"type": "best-practices",
"metadata": {
"passed": "number of passed best practices",
"warning": "number of warning best practices",
"failed": "number of failed best practices",
"inapplicable": "number of inapplicable best practices",
},
"assertions": {
"QW_BP1": {
"name": "Name of the technique",
"code": "QualWeb best practices id",
"description": "Description of the best practices",
"metadata": {
"target": "Any target, can be one element, multiple elements, attributes, a relation between elements",
"success-criteria?": [
{
"name": "Name of the success criteria",
"level": "Level of conformance of the success criteria",
"principle": "Principle of the success criteria",
"url": "Url of the success criteria"
}
],
"related?": [], // related WCAG 2.1 techniques
"passed": "Number of passed results",
"warning": "Number of warning results",
"failed": "Number ff failed results",
"type?": [], // usually "ACTRule" or "TestCase"
"a11yReq?": [], // WCAG 2.1 relation - something like "WCAG21:language"
"outcome": "Outcome of the best practices",
"description": "Description of the outcome";
},
"results": [
{
"verdict": "Outcome of the test",
"description": "Description of the test",
"resultCode": "Test identifier",
"pointer?": "Element pointer in CSS notation",
"htmlCode?": "Element html code",
"attributes?": "Attributes of the element" // if available
},
{ ... }
]
},
"...": { ... }
}
},
"counter": {
"type": "counter",
"data": {
"roles": {
"button": 2,
"link": 4,
...
},
"tags": {
"div": 10,
"table": 3,
...
}
}
}
}
}| QualWeb Rule ID | ACT Rule ID | ACT Rule Name |
|---|---|---|
| QW-ACT-R1 | 2779a5 | HTML Page has a title |
| QW-ACT-R2 | b5c3f8 | HTML has lang attribute |
| QW-ACT-R3 | 5b7ae0 | HTML lang and xml:lang match |
| QW-ACT-R4 | bc659a | Meta-refresh no delay |
| QW-ACT-R5 | bf051a | Validity of HTML Lang attribute |
| QW-ACT-R6 | 59796f | Image button has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R7 | b33eff | Orientation of the page is not restricted using CSS transform property |
| QW-ACT-R9 | b20e66 | Links with identical accessible names have equivalent purpose |
| QW-ACT-R10 | 4b1c6c |
iframe elements with identical accessible names have equivalent purpose |
| QW-ACT-R11 | 97a4e1 | Button has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R12 | c487ae | Link has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R13 | 6cfa84 | Element with aria-hidden has no focusable content |
| QW-ACT-R14 | b4f0c3 | meta viewport does not prevent zoom |
| QW-ACT-R15 | 80f0bf | audio or video has no audio that plays automatically |
| QW-ACT-R16 | e086e5 | Form control has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R17 | 23a2a8 | Image has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R18 | 3ea0c8 |
id attribute value is unique |
| QW-ACT-R19 | cae760 | iframe element has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R20 | 674b10 | role attribute has valid value |
| QW-ACT-R21 | 7d6734 | svg element with explicit role has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R22 | de46e4 | Element within body has valid lang attribute |
| QW-ACT-R23 | c5a4ea | video element visual content has accessible alternative |
| QW-ACT-R24 | 73f2c2 | autocomplete attribute has valid value |
| QW-ACT-R25 | 5c01ea | ARIA state or property is permitted |
| QW-ACT-R26 | eac66b | video element auditory content has accessible alternative |
| QW-ACT-R27 | 5f99a7 | This rule checks that each aria- attribute specified is defined in ARIA 1.1. |
| QW-ACT-R28 | 4e8ab6 | Element with role attribute has required states and properties |
| QW-ACT-R29 | e7aa44 | Audio element content has text alternative |
| QW-ACT-R30 | 2ee8b8 | Visible label is part of accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R31 | c3232f | Video element visual-only content has accessible alternative |
| QW-ACT-R32 | 1ec09b | video element visual content has strict accessible alternative |
| QW-ACT-R33 | ff89c9 | ARIA required context role |
| QW-ACT-R34 | 6a7281 | ARIA state or property has valid value |
| QW-ACT-R35 | ffd0e9 | Heading has accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R36 | a25f45 | Headers attribute specified on a cell refers to cells in the same table element |
| QW-ACT-R37 | afw4f7 | Text has minimum contrast |
| QW-ACT-R38 | bc4a75 | ARIA required owned elements |
| QW-ACT-R39 | d0f69e | All table header cells have assigned data cells |
| QW-ACT-R40 | 59br37 | Zoomed text node is not clipped with CSS overflow |
| QW-ACT-R41 | 36b590 | Error message describes invalid form field value |
| QW-ACT-R42 | 8fc3b6 | Object element has non-empty accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R43 | 0ssw9k | Scrollable element is keyboard accessible |
| QW-ACT-R44 | fd3a94 | Links with identical accessible names and context serve equivalent purpose |
| QW-ACT-R48 | 46ca7f | Element marked as decorative is not exposed |
| QW-ACT-R49 | aaa1bf | Audio or video that plays automatically has no audio that lasts more than 3 seconds |
| QW-ACT-R50 | 4c31df | Audio or video that plays automatically has a control mechanism |
| QW-ACT-R51 | fd26cf | video element visual-only content is media alternative for text |
| QW-ACT-R52 | ac7dc6 | video element visual-only content has description track |
| QW-ACT-R53 | ee13b5 | video element visual-only content has transcript |
| QW-ACT-R54 | d7ba54 | video element visual-only content has audio track alternative |
| QW-ACT-R55 | 1ea59c | video element visual content has audio description |
| QW-ACT-R56 | ab4d13 | video element content is media alternative for text |
| QW-ACT-R57 | f196ce | video element visual content has description track |
| QW-ACT-R58 | 2eb176 | audio element content has transcript |
| QW-ACT-R59 | afb423 | audio element content is media alternative for text |
| QW-ACT-R60 | f51b46 | video element auditory content has captions |
| QW-ACT-R61 | 1a02b0 | video element visual content has transcript |
| QW-ACT-R62 | oj04fd | Element in sequential focus order has visible focus |
| QW-ACT-R63 | b40fd1 | Document has a landmark with non-repeated content |
| QW-ACT-R64 | 047fe0 | Document has heading for non-repeated content |
| QW-ACT-R65 | 307n5z | Element with presentational children has no focusable content |
| QW-ACT-R66 | m6b1q3 | Menuitem has non-empty accessible name |
| QW-ACT-R67 | 24afc2 | Letter spacing in style attributes is not !important |
| QW-ACT-R68 | 78fd32 | Line height in style attributes is not !important |
| QW-ACT-R69 | 9e45ec | Word spacing in style attributes is not !important |
| QW-ACT-R70 | akn7bn | frame with negative tabindex has no interactive elements |
| QW-ACT-R71 | bisz58 |
meta element has no refresh delay (no exception) |
| QW-ACT-R72 | 8a213c | First focusable element is link to non-repeated content |
| QW-ACT-R73 | 3e12e1 | Block of repeated content is collapsible |
| QW-ACT-R74 | ye5d6e | Document has an instrument to move focus to non-repeated content |
| QW-ACT-R75 | cf77f2 | Bypass Blocks of Repeated Content |
| QW-ACT-R76 | 09o5cg | Text has enhanced contrast |
| QW-ACT-R77 | in6db8 | ARIA required ID references exist |
| QualWeb Technique ID | WCAG Technique ID | WCAG Technique Name |
|---|---|---|
| QW-WCAG-T1 | H24 | Providing text alternatives for the area elements of image maps |
| QW-WCAG-T2 | H39 | Using caption elements to associate data table captions with data tables |
| QW-WCAG-T3 | H71 | Providing a description for groups of form controls using fieldset and legend elements |
| QW-WCAG-T4 | H73 | Using the summary attribute of the table element to give an overview of data tables |
| QW-WCAG-T5 | H36 | Using alt attributes on images used as submit buttons |
| QW-WCAG-T6 | SCR20 | Using both keyboard and other device-specific functions |
| QW-WCAG-T7 | H28 | Providing definitions for abbreviations by using the abbr element |
| QW-WCAG-T8 | F30 | Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 1.2.1 due to using text alternatives that are not alternatives |
| QW-WCAG-T9 | G141 | Organizing a page using headings |
| QW-WCAG-T10 | H2 | Combining adjacent image and text links for the same resource |
| QW-WCAG-T11 | H35 | Providing text alternatives on applet elements |
| QW-WCAG-T12 | F46 | Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using th elements, caption elements, or non-empty summary attributes in layout tables |
| QW-WCAG-T13 | F47 | Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to using the blink element |
| QW-WCAG-T14 | H43 | Using id and headers attributes to associate data cells with header cells in data tables |
| QW-WCAG-T15 | H59 | Using the link element and navigation tools |
| QW-WCAG-T16 | H88 | Using HTML according to spec |
| QW-WCAG-T17 | G162 | Positioning labels to maximize predictability of relationships |
| QW-WCAG-T18 | H51 | Using table markup to present tabular information |
| QW-WCAG-T19 | H32 | Providing submit buttons |
| QW-WCAG-T20 | H33 | Supplementing link text with the title attribute |
| QW-WCAG-T21 | F89 | Failure of Success Criteria 2.4.4, 2.4.9 and 4.1.2 due to not providing an accessible name for an image which is the only content in a link |
| QW-WCAG-T22 | F52 | Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.1 and 3.2.5 due to opening a new window as soon as a new page is loaded |
| QW-WCAG-T23 | G1 | Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area |
| QW-WCAG-T24 | F55 | Failure of Success Criteria 2.1.1, 2.4.7, and 3.2.1 due to using script to remove focus when focus is received |
| QW-WCAG-T25 | H63 | Using the scope attribute to associate header cells and data cells in data tables |
| QW-WCAG-T26 | F59 | Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to using script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML without providing a role for the control |
| QW-WCAG-T27 | F88 | Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.8 due to using text that is justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins) |
| QW-WCAG-T28 | C12 C13 C14 | Using percent, em, names for font sizes |
| QW-WCAG-T29 | C19 | Specifying alignment either to the left or right in CSS |
| QW-WCAG-T30 | F4 | Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to using text-decoration:blink without a mechanism to stop it in less than five seconds |
| QW-WCAG-T31 | F24 | Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.3, 1.4.6 and 1.4.8 due to specifying foreground colors without specifying background colors or vice versa |
| QW-WCAG-T32 | H48 | Using ol, ul and dl for lists or groups of links |
Sometimes, some webpages fail to evaluate, or the evaluation may take a really long time. Before creating an issue check the error.log file and verify that:
- The URL is correct, and it uses http or https, or www, or both;
- The webpage exists;
- If using https, that the certificate is valid;
- If you really want to evaluate the page with an invalid certificate, add "--ignore-certificate-errors" to the
argsin qualweb puppeteer launch options.
- If you really want to evaluate the page with an invalid certificate, add "--ignore-certificate-errors" to the
- The webpage is not password protected;
- The webpage is an HTML Document.
ISC
- 0.7.32 - Updated ACT-Rules c487ae(R12), 6cfa84 (R13), 73f2c2 (R24), 46ca7f (R48) and 78fd32 (R68)
- 0.7.31 - Removed dependencies on Wappalyzer module (continued)
- 0.7.30 - Removed dependencies on Wappalyzer module
- 0.7.29 - Fixed ACT-Rules bf051a (R5) and bc4a75 (R38)