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Open Source Accessibility Plugins in Cypress

This post is part of a series! Check out parts one and two: 1. Hands-on with Cypress Accessibility 2. Improving Accessibility in Legacy Applications This week we’ve been blogging about the topic of accessibility, since the recent GA launch of our commercial accessibility testing solution built into Cypress Cloud. This overall blog series is a chance to share what we’ve been working on and what we’ve learned with our customers, as well as a great chance to write more about accessibility as a

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Improving Accessibility in Legacy Applications

Over the years, accessibility is something that I’ve come to see as foundational to front-end application quality. Not optional, not an afterthought, not a debate. As the product manager for Cypress Accessibility, I’ve been able to talk to hundreds of people about how they and their companies manage accessibility in their approach to development and quality. One thing is clear: lots of us are working in less than ideal conditions when it comes to making applications usable for people with disabi

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Hands-on with Cypress Accessibility

This week we begin a series of blog posts about accessibility and Cypress. In upcoming posts we’ll discuss open-source accessibility plugins for the Cypress App, patterns of adopting accessibility testing that we have seen be successful in working with customers, how automation fits into an overall accessibility strategy, and more. In today’s post, we’ll share examples from our new Cloud product, Cypress Accessibility – recently launched at CypressConf 2024 after a long early access period. You

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Cypress Accessibility

Introducing Cypress Accessibility

Updated October 2024. Looking for a free trial? Sign up here. Introduction We built Cypress Accessibility to help teams measure and improve the accessibility of their applications by adding highly effective, zero-effort accessibility checks to the Cypress Cloud platform. To do this, we automatically generate rich, interactive accessibility reports based entirely on existing tests being recorded to Cypress Cloud. This requires no setup or configuration, so it can be adopted instantly at any ti

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Maintaining accessibility through user-focused testing

In this blog post, I will outline my favorite user-focused approach to accessibility testing, show how this can be applied in your Cypress tests, and explain why Cypress Component Tests may be the best place to do this kind of testing. Accessibility can be a complicated and intimidating topic. Often when we talk about it, we think in terms of checklists, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) criteria, and legal requirements. But at its core, it isn’t really about those things: it’s about

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Learn the value of Component Testing for QA teams

What Cypress Component Testing Means for QA and "Shifting Left"

This post is the second of a series that explores how Component Testing can benefit different parts of your team or organization. If you’re wondering why you and your team should adopt Component Testing, this series is for you! In our first post of this series, we discussed how Cypress Component Testing isbeneficial for developers. In this post, we'll delve into how Component Testing can improve collaboration and alignment between development and QA teams by allowing them to run end-to-end and

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Learn the value of component testing for developers

What Cypress Component Testing Means for Developers

Recently, we launched Component Testing to GA! In this blog series, we’re going to break down how Component Testing brings layered benefits to different parts of your team or organization. If you’re wondering why you and your team should adopt Component Testing, this series is for you! In this first post, we’ll dive into Component Testing benefits for developers. Let’s start with the development workflow. Cypress Component Testing is a leap forward in the experience of writing component tests,

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How Cypress Component Testing changed our workflow (and how I came to work here)

Before I joined Cypress last year, the alpha version of Cypress Component Testing [https://on.cypress.io/component] changed the way my team did front-end work at my previous job, allowing us to consolidate three tools into one. This was the experience that ultimately led to me joining the Component Testing team at Cypress, where I got to help move the feature out of alpha and towards a full release. Since then, we’ve released Cypress 10 with support for testing React, Vue, Angular, and (soon!)

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