pa11y_importer

This is a series of files to ease the import of multiple URLs and parameters/conditions into Pa11y Dashboard.

Scripts and files in this repo are based on content from here.

Setup

• Install mongo.
• Install pa11y-dashboard.
  • In the config/ directory, use one of the sample files as your config file template. The host will default to localhost and that should suffice for your initial testing needs.
• run npm install to download all needed dependencies
• Use the config settings in pa11y-dashboard as the basis for the values in your new config file.

Spidering

• Update the contents in data/microsites.csv with your URLs of interest.
• Run node crawler.js - results will be saved in data/microsite-*.csv files.

Importing

• Update data/pa11y-tasks.csv with entries of interest.
  • NOTE: the data format used by data/microsite-*.csv is incompatible with data/pa11y-tasks.csv - importing rows is currently a manual process.
  • Columns used in import file:
    • name: Human-readable name for each test
    • url: location for each page to test
    • standard: document validation standard, examples default to Section508
    • username, password: used for HTTP basic authentication