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From: Steve Green
Date: May 6, 2020 12:47PM

I can see that could work for that type of tool, but I want a tool that will spider a website and present the results in a GUI like SortSite does.

Steve


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Peter Krautzberger
Sent: 06 May 2020 19:36
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Automated testing tools and viewport size

Hi Steve,

A random (untested) idea would be to use axe-puppeteer [1]. Tell puppeteer to set some viewport dimensions, test with axe-puppeteer, change viewport, test again; rinse and repeat.

Peter.

[1] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-puppeteer

Am Mi., 6. Mai 2020 um 19:43 Uhr schrieb Steve Green <
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> I never really thought about this before, but automated testing tools
> that use a headless browser still need to apply viewport dimensions,
> and this will determine which media queries are and are not applied.
> This raises the question of what dimensions they are using.
>
> These thoughts were prompted by an issue that SortSite reported, but
> the Axe browser extension did not. It turns out that the issue occurs
> at viewport widths below 1300 pixels and that Axe did not find it
> because I just happened to run the test with a larger window than
> that. By contrast, SortSite's headless browser always works at
> 1024x768 pixels, so it found the issue.
>
> In this case I got lucky, but I want a more robust solution. Does
> anyone know of a tool that can test a whole website (like SortSite
> does) rather than one page at a time, but it tests at multiple
> viewport sizes. At the very least the sizes should be selectable and
> ideally the tool should work out what sizes it needs to test at to cover all the breakpoints?
>
> I suspect that such a tool will be expensive if it exists at all, but
> significant issues could be missed if a tool doesn't do that.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Green
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