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Alfa vs Joshuto

Alfa

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Joshuto

github.com

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FigureAlfaJoshuto
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYes—
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published11
Spec score · Terminal File Managers9.1 (#1)8.1 (#16)
Spec score · File Manager Software8.2 (#33)7.8 (#56)
Spec score · File managers8.2 (#15)7.9 (#19)
CustomizationDevelopers can add custom rules to the default rule set and filter results by conformance level or WCAG version.Users can customize colors and themes, keybindings, file associations, and bookmarks through TOML configuration files.
Free planYesYes
LicenseAlfa is released under the MIT license.The repository identifies its license as LGPL-3.0.
PurposeAlfa is an open, standards-based accessibility conformance testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.Joshuto is a ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.

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Alfa

  • AlfaFree

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Joshuto

  • FreeFree

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In their own words

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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