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# Continuous Accessibility


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 17:30–18:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100170-continuous-accessibility)

## Description

In this session, I will demonstrate how to move accessibility with low effort from an "afterthought" to a systematic verification process using fast unit checks (jasmine-axe, jest-axe, vitest-axe) and realistic E2E scans (Cypress, Playwright). Instead of manually checking accessibility shortly before release, we shift feedback to the left: components are validated in isolation during testing, and critical user flows are scanned in real browsers. This is not just about tools, but about robust routines: ensuring stable UI states before scanning, maintaining consistent WCAG tags/severity levels, generating actionable reporting in CI, and establishing clear gate rules ("build fails on serious/critical").
Furthermore, I will shed light on the practical side: how teams handle exceptions (with justification and expiration dates), how to choose the right scopes (e.g., scanning a dialog instead of the entire page), and why uniform guardrails across unit and E2E tests are crucial for making accessibility sustainable, scalable, and genuinely integrated into daily development.


## Speaker

### [Jörg Jakoby](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jorg-jakoby)

Software Developer at Atos


## Related talks at this congress

- [Fast, Confident, and Wrong: When AI Fails at Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1021-fast-confident-and) — Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova
- [Maintainable and Testable Code in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1458-maintainable-and) — Dennis Doomen
- [You don't need to write the code. You need to become a verification architect and prove it's correct](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1007-you-don-t-need-to) — Guillaume Moigneu
- [Testing AI Agents: Automated Evaluation for Chatbots & RAG Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1341-testing-ai-agents) — Sebastian Messingfeld