axe-linter Accessibility Rules

This article contains information about the rules and tags recognized by the axe-linter Server, and each rule links to a page on Deque University with more information.

Rules

The axe-linter Server checks source against the following rules:

1. area-alt
2. aria-allowed-attr
3. aria-allowed-role
4. aria-command-name
5. aria-dialog-name
6. aria-input-field-name
7. aria-meter-name
8. aria-progressbar-name
9. aria-required-attr
10. aria-roles
11. aria-roledescription
12. aria-text
13. aria-toggle-field-name
14. aria-tooltip-name
15. aria-treeitem-name
16. aria-valid-attr-value
17. aria-valid-attr
18. autocomplete-valid
19. button-name
20. definition-list
21. empty-heading
22. frame-title
23. html-has-lang
24. html-lang-valid
25. image-alt
26. input-button-name
27. input-image-alt
28. label
29. link-name
30. list
31. meta-refresh
32. meta-viewport
33. nested-interactive
34. object-alt
35. presentation-role-conflict
36. role-img-alt
37. select-name
38. svg-img-alt
39. tabindex
40. valid-lang

Markdown Rule

The axe-linter Server checks Markdown source against the following rule:

• heading-order

Tags

The following table shows the tags that are accepted by axe-linter Server for selecting the rules to check source against:

For more information about the rules and tags, see Axe Core Tags.