axe-playwright-python

axe-playwright-python

Automated web accessibility testing using axe-core engine and Playwright.

Documentation

• Full documentation.

Dependencies

• Python >= 3.10
• playwright >= 1.25.0

Installation

python3 -m pip install -U axe-playwright-python
python3 -m playwright install --with-deps

Usage

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from axe_core_python.sync_playwright import Axe

axe = Axe()

with sync_playwright() as playwright:
    browser = playwright.chromium.launch()
    page = browser.new_page()
    page.goto("https://www.google.com")
    results = axe.run(page)
    browser.close()

print(f"Found {results.violations_count} violations.")
print(f"Full axe-core response: {results.response}")

For more examples see documentation.

Contributing

See guide on contributing.

Acknowledgments

This project is based on axe-core-python by @ruslan-rv-ua and also takes inspiration from axe-selenium-python for output formats.