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Ace by DAISY

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FigureAce by DAISYAlfa
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
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Web—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · Accessibility Testing Software8.3 (#52)9.0 (#8)
Automated scansYesYes
CI/CD integrationYesYes
Founded19962003
Free planYesYes
HeadquartersZurich, SwitzerlandCopenhagen, Denmark
PurposeAce checks EPUB files for accessibility at any point in a publishing workflow and assists with evaluating conformance to the EPUB Accessibility Specification.Alfa is an open, standards-based accessibility conformance testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Remediation guidanceYesYes

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Alfa

Alfa is a free, open accessibility testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It checks pages against accessibility standards such as WCAG, using included rules or pluggable rules in the ACT Rules Format. Developers can add custom rules and filter results by conformance level or WCAG version. Audit output follows the Evaluation and Report Language schema as JSON-LD, and the command-line interface can audit a single page and save results as JSON. Scraper and crawler tools create page representations and discover pages across a site or subdomain. Ready-made integrations cover frameworks and test tools including Angular, React, Vue, Cypress, Jest, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and WebdriverIO. Alfa is distributed as separate npm packages under the MIT license. It runs in ECMAScript 2022-compatible JavaScript environments, including recent Node.js and browser versions. Building from source requires Node.js 20 or later and Yarn. The project says most integrations are experimental and may change; older environments may be targetable from source but are not explicitly supported.

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