Commit 74fa9819 authored by drew cimino's avatar drew cimino

Initial a11y scanning CI template

MVC template that can be included in a gitlab-ci.yml file
Accompanying first set of docs, modeled on Browser Performance
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title: Initial a11y scanning CI template
merge_request: 25144
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type: added
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type: reference, howto
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# Accessibility Testing
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/25144) in [GitLab Core](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.8.
If your application offers a web interface and you are using
[GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/README.md), you can quickly determine the accessibility
impact of pending code changes.
## Overview
GitLab uses [pa11y](https://pa11y.org/), a free and open source tool for
measuring the accessibility of web sites, and has built a simple
[CI template](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Verify/Accessibility.gitlab-ci.yml)
which outputs the results in a file called `accessibility`. This outputs
the accessibility violations, warnings, and notices for each page that is analyzed.
## Configuring Accessiblity Testing
This example shows how to run [pa11y](https://pa11y.org/)
on your code by using GitLab CI/CD with a plain node Docker image.
For GitLab 12.8 and later, to define the `performance` job, you must
[include](../../../ci/yaml/README.md#includetemplate) the
[`Accessibility.gitlab-ci.yml` template](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Verify/Accessibility.gitlab-ci.yml)
that's provided as a part of your GitLab installation.
For GitLab versions earlier than 12.8, you can copy and use the job as
defined in that template.
CAUTION: **Caution:**
The job definition provided by the template does not support Kubernetes yet.
Add the following to your `.gitlab-ci.yml` file:
```yaml
include:
template: Verify/Accessibility.gitlab-ci.yml
a11y:
variables:
a11y_urls: https://example.com https://example.com/another-page
```
The above example will create a `a11y` job in your CI/CD pipeline and will run
Pa11y against the webpage you defined in `a11y_urls` to build a report.
The full HTML Pa11y report will be saved as an artifact that can be viewed directly in your browser.
It is not yet possible to pass configurations into Pa11y via CI configuration. To change anything,
copy the template to your CI file and make the desired edits.
......@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ describe Gitlab::Template::GitlabCiYmlTemplate do
it 'finds the Verify templates' do
expect(templates).to include('Browser-Performance')
expect(templates).to include('Accessibility')
end
end
end
# Read more about the feature here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/accessibility_testing.html
stages:
- build
- test
- deploy
- accessibility
a11y:
stage: accessibility
image: node
script:
- wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - && \
- echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list && \
- apt-get update && \
- apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable && \
- rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
- npm install pa11y@5.3.0 pa11y-reporter-html@1.0.0
- 'echo { \"chromeLaunchConfig\": { \"args\": [\"--no-sandbox\"] }, \"includeWarnings\": true, \"reporter\": \"html\" } > pa11y.json'
- './node_modules/.bin/pa11y $a11y_urls > accessibility.html'
allow_failure: true
artifacts:
when: always
expose_as: 'accessibility'
paths: ['accessibility.html']
rules:
- if: $a11y_urls
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