@sa11y/jest

@sa11y/jest

Accessibility matcher for Jest

• Overview
• Install
• Setup
  • Project level
  • Test module level
  • Automatic checks
• Caution
• Usage

Overview

The toBeAccessible() API from this library can be used in Jest unit tests to test HTML elements or DOM for accessibility.

Install

• Using yarn: yarn add -D @sa11y/jest
• Using npm: npm install -D @sa11y/jest

Setup

The accessibility APIs need to be registered with Jest before they can be used in tests.

Project level

You can set up the sa11y API once at the project level to make it available to all the Jest tests in the project. For an example look at the Integration test setup in @sa11y.

• Add a Jest setup file (e.g. jest-setup.js) and add the following code that registers the sa11y API

// Import using either CommonJS `require` or ES6 `import`
const { setup } = require('@sa11y/jest'); // CommonJS
import { setup } from '@sa11y/jest'; // ES6
// Register the sa11y matcher
setup();

• Add or Modify the Jest config at project root to invoke the Jest setup file as setup above.
• In the jest.config.js at the root of your project, add:

module.exports = {
    setupFilesAfterEnv: ['<rootDir>/jest-setup.js'],
};

• This makes the toBeAccessible API available for any test in the project.

Test module level

Invoke setup before using the toBeAccessible API in the tests

import { setup } from '@sa11y/jest';

beforeAll(() => {
    setup();
});

• This makes the toBeAccessible API available for the tests only in that specific test module where setup() is invoked.

Automatic checks

The sa11y API can be setup to be automatically invoked at the end of each test

setup({ autoCheckOpts: { runAfterEach: true } });

// To optionally cleanup the body after running a11y checks
setup({ autoCheckOpts: { runAfterEach: true, cleanupAfterEach: true } });

// Options can also be passed to setup() using environment variables
// E.g. Invoking jest test runner in command line: "SA11Y_AUTO=1 SA11Y_CLEANUP=1 jest ..."
setup(); // Automatic checks will be enabled due to the environment variables

• Each child element in the DOM body will be checked for a11y, results consolidated and failures reported as part of the test
• Automatic checks can be used as an alternative to adding the toBeAccessible API at the end of each test
• The environment variables can be used to set up parallel builds e.g. in a CI environment without the code changes to setup() to opt-in to automatic checks

Caution

• async: toBeAccessible must be invoked with async/wait or Promise or the equivalent supported asynchronous method in your environment
  • Not invoking it async would result in incorrect results e.g. no issues reported even when the page is not accessible
• color-contrast: Color-contrast check is disabled for Jest tests as it does not work in JSDOM
• audio, video: Accessibility of audio, video elements cannot be checked with Jest as they are stubbed out in JSDOM
• real browser: If you need to check for color-contrast, audio/video elements or any other checks which need the element to be rendered visually please use a real browser to test e.g. using @sa11y/wdio

Usage

• toBeAccessible can either be invoked on the entire document (JSDOM) or on a specific HTML element to check for accessibility

import { base, full } from '@sa11y/preset-rules';
import { setup } from '@sa11y/jest';

beforeAll(() => {
    setup();
});

it('should be accessible', async () => {
    // Setup DOM to be tested for accessibility
    //...

    // assert that DOM is accessible (using recommended preset-rule)
    await expect(document).toBeAccessible();

    // Can be used to test accessibility of a specific HTML element
    const elem = document.getElementById('foo');
    await expect(elem).toBeAccessible();

    // If you want to test against all rules provided by axe
    await expect(document).toBeAccessible(full);

    // If you have any a11y issues from the default recommended preset-rule
    //  that you can't fix for now, you can use the base preset-rule
    await expect(document).toBeAccessible(base);
});

Changelog

0.3.0-beta (2020-08-19)

Features

• browser-lib: add a new package for producing bundled minified version of sa11y (#32)