# addyosmani/a11y

Accessibility audit tooling for the web (beta)

Repository: https://github.com/addyosmani/a11y
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/a11y
Homepage: http://addyosmani.github.io/a11y/
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-04-20T15:50:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4343, "days_push": 3057, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1722, forks 76 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:27.738249+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js CLI tool and library that runs accessibility audits against URLs, local files, or glob patterns using Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools, producing PASS/FAIL reports. It can also be used programmatically as an npm module to generate accessibility reports.

## Use cases
- audit a website for accessibility issues
- check if my web pages pass WCAG accessibility rules
- run accessibility audits on local HTML files
- integrate accessibility checks into a build or test pipeline
- generate an accessibility report for a URL from the command line

## When to choose
- you need a quick command-line accessibility audit of a URL or local HTML files
- you want a simple Node.js API to programmatically run accessibility audits
- you're maintaining a legacy Node.js toolchain already using this package

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained tooling - the project is beta and hasn't released since 2018 and relies on deprecated PhantomJS
- you need modern audits based on axe-core or Lighthouse
- you need CI-grade accessibility testing with extensive configuration options

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: testing, cli, developer-tools
- domain: accessibility, web-development, developer-tools, testing
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: accessibility-audit, a11y, phantomjs, web-audit, deprecated, nodejs

## Member repositories
- addyosmani/a11y (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:27.738249+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:33:58.860472+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/addyosmani/a11y (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:27.738249+00:00, sha fcc859595c95)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/a11y (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:55.482932+00:00, sha ca83b26c6659)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.