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Re: Making mobile view available to all as way of constraining a11y testing costs

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jan 5, 2018 3:50PM

But aXe, itself, does work, I believe, at testing the page at whatever
viewport size you are currently using.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On 05/01/2018 20:09, Steve Green wrote:
> [...]
>
>> The issue of automated tests is interesting. I don't find automated tools
>> particularly useful so my experience of them is relatively limited, but I
>> was surprised to find that SortSite gave exactly the same results on a
>> recent project regardless of the viewport dimensions. For instance, it
>> reported non-compliances that only occurred in the mobile layout even
>> though the desktop layout was being displayed.
>>
>
> FWIW that's one of my ongoing gripes about the Lighthouse-based "Audit"
> available in current Chrome DevTools (which uses aXe), as that runs all
> audits (including the accessibility one) only in mobile viewport size.
>
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