AccessSniff

A CLI and Phantom.js library for HTML_CodeSniffer

• Gulp plugin
• Grunt plugin

Getting Started

Install this plugin with npm install access-sniff then use it in your project with

var accessSniff  = require('access-sniff');
var files = ['**/*.html'];

accessSniff.start(files, options);

or install the module globally and type

sniff test/**/*.html -r json -l reports

AccessSniff can test both locally hosted files and websites.

sniff http://statamic.com/ -r json -l reports

Options

You can pass the following options

Accessibility Level

accessibilityLevel is a string

  options: {
    accessibilityLevel: 'WCAG2A'
  }

Levels are WCAG2A, WCAG2AA, and WCAG2AAA

Accessibilityrc

accessibilityrc is a boolean

options: {
  accessibilityrc: true
}

Set to true to access a .accessibilityrc file in your project which should be layed out as:

{
  "ignore": [
  "WCAG2A.Principle2.Guideline2_4.2_4_2.H25.1.NoTitleEl",
  "WCAG2A.Principle3.Guideline3_1.3_1_1.H57.2"
  ]
}

Ignore

ignore is a array

You can ignore rules by placing them in an array outlined below

  options: {
    ignore : [
      'WCAG2A.Principle2.Guideline2_4.2_4_2.H25.1.NoTitleEl'
      'WCAG2A.Principle3.Guideline3_1.3_1_1.H57.2'
    ]
  }

Report Type

reportType is a string

  options: {
    reportType: 'json'
  }

Text, CSV or JSON format output

• 'txt' will output text files
• 'json' will output .json files
• 'csv' will output csv

Report Location

reportLocation is a string

  options: {
    reportLocation : 'reports'
  }

Set the value to where you want reports created

Report Levels

reportLevels is a object

  options: {
    reportLevels: {
      notice: true,
      warning: true,
      error: true
    }
  }

Set a value to false to limit output

Verbose output

verbose is a boolean

  options: {
    verbose: false
  }

Output messages to console, set to true by default

DomElement

domElement is a boolean

  options: {
    domElement: false
  }

Include reference (tag name, class names & id) to reported elements. Optional for both output formats.

Force

force is a boolean

  options: {
    force: true
  }

Continue running grunt in the event of failures

CLI

You can use the CLI component by installing it globally with npm install -g access-sniff

sniff test/**/*.html -r json -l reports
sniff test/**/*.html -r csv -l reports
sniff test/**/*.html -r txt -l reports

Options

Report Type

-r or -reportType

txt, csv, json.

Report Location

-r or -reportLocation

Quiet

-q or -quiet