pa11y-automated (Hickory)

This is for creating a more automated approach to using the pa11y accessibility tool.

Usage

• hickory OR
• hickory unum OR
• hickory colonial
• node hickory might be needed

If you simply run hickory it will look into the local urls.json file for a list of urls to scan.

If you want to scan an entire site using it's sitemap, use hickory unum or hickory colonial.

Quite often you will only want to scan a sample selection from all of the urls in the sitemap. For that use:

• hickory colonial --sample
• hickory colonial --sample 5
• hickory colonial --sample 10 3

In the above examples:

• using --sample scans only the first three items in the sitemap.
• using --sample <how-many> scans the first how-many items in the sitemap.
• using --sample <how-many> <start-here> scans the first how-many items starting at start-here (zero indexed)

Instead of typing in the url of a sitemap file, you can also use shortcuts below:

• hickory unum
• hickory unum-dev
• hickory unum-acpt
• hickory colonial
• hickory colonial-dev
• hickory colonial-acpt
• hickory mySitemapUrl.xml (experimental)

The current output generates a .html file after the scan.