Add a flag to conditionally fail the tests on a11y violations

README.md

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Update `Cypress/support/index.js` file to include the cypress-axe commands by ad
 import 'cypress-axe'
 ```
 
+### Add a task to log the messages to the terminal when the cypress executes the spec files
+
+[Example - configuring log task](https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/task.html#Usage)
 
 ## Commands
 
@@ -103,6 +106,10 @@ it('Has no a11y violations after button click', () => {
 })
 ```
 
+Optionally you can also pass additional argument `skipFailures` to disable the failures and only log them to the console output 
+
+Reference : https://github.com/avanslaars/cypress-axe/issues/17
+
 ## Output
 
 When accessibility violations are detected, your test will fail and an entry titled "A11Y ERROR!" will be added to the command log for each type of violation found (they will be above the failed assertion). Clicking on those will reveal more specifics about the error in the DevTools console.

index.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Cypress.Commands.add('configureAxe', (configurationOptions = {}) => {
  })
 })
 
-Cypress.Commands.add('checkA11y', (context, options, violationCallback) => {
+Cypress.Commands.add('checkA11y', (context, options, violationCallback, skipFailures = false) => {
  cy.window({ log: false })
  .then(win => {
  if (isEmptyObjectorNull(context)) context = undefined
@@ -38,13 +38,31 @@ Cypress.Commands.add('checkA11y', (context, options, violationCallback) => {
  return cy.wrap(violations, { log: false })
  })
  .then(violations => {
- assert.equal(
- violations.length,
- 0,
- `${violations.length} accessibility violation${
- violations.length === 1 ? '' : 's'
- } ${violations.length === 1 ? 'was' : 'were'} detected`
- )
+ if(!skipFailures) {
+ assert.equal(
+ violations.length,
+ 0,
+ `${violations.length} accessibility violation${
+ violations.length === 1 ? '' : 's'
+ } ${violations.length === 1 ? 'was' : 'were'} detected`
+ )
+ } else {
+ cy.task('log', violations.length === 0 ? "No violations were detected!": `${violations.length} accessibility violation${
+ violations.length === 1 ? '' : 's'
+ } ${violations.length === 1 ? 'was' : 'were'} detected`);
+ let header = "\n\n---------|impact|\t id|\t help|\t helpUrl|---------\n";
+ header = header + "----------------------------------------------------------\n";
+ for(let v = 0 ; v < violations.length ; v++) {
+ if (v == 0) {
+ vDetail = header + `|${violations[v].impact}| ${violations[v].id}| ${violations[v].help}| ${violations[v].helpUrl}|\n`;
+ } else {
+ vDetail = vDetail + `|${violations[v].impact}| ${violations[v].id}| ${violations[v].help}| ${violations[v].helpUrl}|\n`;
+ }
+ }
+ if (violations.length > 0) {
+ cy.task('log', vDetail);
+ }
+ }
  })
 })