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title: "Testing A11y Using Cypress And wick-a11y Plugin"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/testing-a11y-using-cypress-and-wick-a11y-plugin-yiufaeemd
source_url: https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/testing-a11y
type: article
source: "Gleb Bahmutov"
published: 2026-05-31T07:53:20.923Z
updated: 2026-05-31T09:27:01.617Z
tags: ["webdev", "accessibility", "cypress"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Testing A11y Using Cypress And wick-a11y Plugin

**[Gleb Bahmutov](https://daily.dev/sources/glebbahmutov)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A practical walkthrough of adding accessibility (a11y) testing to an existing Cypress test suite using the wick-a11y plugin. Covers installation, registering plugin tasks in the Cypress config, importing custom commands, and running cy.checkAccessibility(). Demonstrates catching a real color-contrast issue, enabling lower-severity warnings, and generating static HTML reports saved as CI artifacts.

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