axe® - The Standard in Accessibility Testing

Chosen by Microsoft, Google, development and testing teams everywhere, axe is the World’s leading digital accessibility toolkit.

Efficient and effective accessibility testing is here.

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Robust, efficient and accurate accessibility testing for all

Built on the world’s most popular accessibility testing library, axe-core. Deque’s suite of axe tools offers full coverage for your testing and compliance needs.

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Key Features
  • Automated testing
  • Intelligent Guided Testing™
  • Save & export results
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axe DevTools

This powerful and accurate accessibility toolkit can get you to 80% issue coverage, or more, during development.

Key Features
  • Automated testing
  • Intelligent Guided Testing
  • Linting
  • CI/CD integrations
  • CLI
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axe Auditor

Perform full-coverage, consistent WCAG audits of all content and applications.

Key Features
  • Comprehensive testing methodology
  • Predefined issues for all content
  • Group and filter issues for easy communication
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axe Monitor

Dynamically scan, monitor and report on the accessibility status of your entire site.

Key Features
  • Web pages and PDFs
  • Scan whole sites
  • Scan behind authentication and firewalls
  • Watch your status across drill down dashboards
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Benefits of working with axe tools

Bolstering Accessibility; A look inside the Deque, Microsoft relationship

Deque products are powered by the world's most popular accessibility rules engine, called axe-core. This library of rules was open-sourced in 2015 and is scrutinized by developers and accessibility experts on a daily basis, ensuring its alignment with the latest version of WCAG and uphold its mantra of “no false positives.” Choose axe accessibility tools to achieve compliance and stay there, without disrupting development processes. Regardless of which set of Deque tools you choose, you can make it with confidence.
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Enterprise Grade

Deque tools and services are used and trusted in the world’s largest and most secure government and enterprise organizations.

Saves Time & Resources

Axe DevTools helps your web and mobile dev teams catch accessibility errors while coding, dramatically reducing the time and cost of manual accessibility testing down the line.

Full Coverage Compliance

Axe Auditor enables functional testers with minimal accessibility knowledge to perform step-by-step manual accessibility tests, catching a wide breadth of issues that automated tests alone do not cover.

Reliable Compliance Monitoring

Axe Monitor helps ensure your website becomes compliant and remains compliant. Dynamically scan, monitor and report on the accessibility status of your site across business and development teams.

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