eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y

What is eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y?

The eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y npm package is a collection of accessibility-related rules for ESLint that enforce best practices for accessibility in JSX (most commonly used with React). It helps developers write code that is accessible to users with disabilities by checking for common accessibility errors and suggesting improvements.

What are eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y's main functionalities?

Accessible elements

Ensures interactive elements are accessible. For example, this rule checks that buttons have an accessible name and can be interacted with via keyboard.

<button onClick={this.handleClick}>Click me</button>

Aria roles

Enforces the use of valid ARIA roles and that elements with ARIA roles have the required attributes for that role.

<div role="button" onClick={this.handleRoleClick}>Role Button</div>

Media captions

Ensures media elements such as audio and video have captions or descriptions to aid users who cannot see or hear the content.

<video><track kind="captions" /></video>

No redundant alt text

Prevents the use of redundant alt text in images, which can be frustrating for screen reader users.

<img src="image.jpg" alt="" />

Keyboard accessibility

Ensures that custom interactive elements are focusable and have keyboard event handlers to mimic native interactive elements.

<div tabIndex="0" onKeyDown={this.handleKeyDown}>Focusable Div</div>

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eslint-plugin-vuejs-accessibility

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eslint-plugin-react

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axe-core

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README

eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y

Static AST checker for accessibility rules on JSX elements.

Why?

Ryan Florence built out this awesome runtime-analysis tool called react-a11y. It is super useful. However, since you're probably already using linting in your project, this plugin comes for free and closer to the actual development process. Pairing this plugin with an editor lint plugin, you can bake accessibility standards into your application in real-time.

Note: This project does not replace react-a11y, but can and should be used in conjunction with it. Static analysis tools cannot determine values of variables that are being placed in props before runtime, so linting will not fail if that value is undefined and/or does not pass the lint rule.

Installation

You'll first need to install ESLint:

$ npm i eslint --save-dev

Next, install eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y:

$ npm install eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y --save-dev

Note: If you installed ESLint globally (using the -g flag) then you must also install eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y globally.

Usage

Add jsx-a11y to the plugins section of your .eslintrc configuration file. You can omit the eslint-plugin- prefix:

{
    "plugins": [
        "jsx-a11y"
    ]
}

Then configure the rules you want to use under the rules section.

{
    "rules": {
        "jsx-a11y/rule-name": 2
    }
}

Supported Rules

• img-uses-alt: Enforce that img jsx elements use the alt attribute.
• onclick-uses-role: Enforce that non-interactive, visible elements (such as div) that have click handlers use the role attribute.
• mouse-events-map-to-key-events: Enforce that onMouseOver/onMouseOut are accompanied by onFocus/onBlur for strictly keyboard users.
• use-onblur-not-onchange: Enforce that onBlur is used instead of onChange.
• no-access-key: Enforce that the accessKey prop is not used on any element to avoid complications with keyboard commands used by a screenreader.
• label-uses-for: Enforce that label elements have the htmlFor attribute
• redundant-alt: Enforce img alt attribute does not contain the word image, picture, or photo.
• no-hash-href: Enforce an anchor element's href prop value is not just #.
• valid-aria-role: Enforce that elements with ARIA roles must use a valid, non-abstract ARIA role.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute! I am currently using Google Chrome's Audit Rules to map out as rules for this plugin.

License

eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y is licensed under the MIT License.