jargon

Frontend & browser·Testing a user interface

the automated check found the missing labels and the contrast failures, and nothing about whether the flow made sense.

Accessibility audit

Also calledaxe, automated a11y check

An automated scan of rendered output against machine-checkable accessibility rules, runnable in a component test or a browser test. It reliably catches missing names, bad contrast, invalid ARIA and duplicate ids, which is a meaningful share of real defects. It cannot judge focus order, announcement quality or whether an interaction is usable, so it narrows manual testing rather than replacing it.

Commonly confused with