An all-in-one tool for running aXe accessibility tests on several pages (or entire websites) at once. It bundles Selenium WebDriver, aXe, and PhantomJS into a tidy lil' CLI.
This tool is for flagging problematic pages. For detailed page info, try one of the aXe browser plugins.
npm i axegrinder -g
Axegrinder is a node.js package so you'll need node and npm installed. If you don't have node installed already, you're probably the only one.
For now, axegrinder only has one command: crawl. You can point the tool at a URL and it will do its best to go through the entire website until it runs out of new links.
axegrinder crawl https://nodejs.org
This will output the results of the crawl to the terminal, in a nicely formatted list. Pages with accessibility violations will be highlighted in red.
Of course, it would be much more useful to save your results to a spreadsheet. By using the --csv arg, axegrinder can log each violation along with the URL of the page on which it was found.
axegrinder crawl https://nodejs.org --csv=output.csv
If you abort the crawl early, your results up to that point will still be saved to the CSV file.
Since axegrinder is just a wrapper around aXe, you can use any of the aXe "tags" to specify which standards to validate against. You can set multiple standards at once, as a comma-separated list:
axegrinder crawl http://nodejs.org --levels=wcag2a,wcag2aa
The available options are listed below. I think the names are pretty self-explanatory, but you can check the aXe docs if you want specifics.
wcag2awcag2aasection508best-practice
You can include only pages whose URL contains a specific string. Just use the --include arg.
axegrinder crawl https://nodejs.org --include=/url/pattern