Access Continuum overview

Access Continuum is a Level Access product that allows you to integrate accessibility testing in your continuous integration (CI) process using Access Engine, a standalone JavaScript-based testing engine.

 You can run Continuum as a standalone accessibility testing tool or you can have it push findings to AMP.

Access Continuum integrates Access Engine with test automation frameworks, so you can run accessibility tests on code snippets, nodes of a page, or a fully-rendered page while your organization is running their other automated tests. You can embed accessibility testing within your existing automated testing infrastructure and process, which allows your development team to resolve accessibility issues when they are much more cost-effective to fix, before they're released to production. 

Note: To learn more, review the latest version in-product documentation. For language specific details,  review these sections:

• JavaScript 

• Java 

• Python 

• Ruby 

• C#  

Access Continuum includes: 

1. Access Engine. Access Continuum includes the Professional edition of Access Engine. It’s designed for automation and defaults to running only Automatic tests that don’t require human validation. Additionally, you can enable Guided Automatics to flag suspicious items, which still need human review to confirm accessibility violations. Advisory tests are not run in Continuum; these tests identify potential accessibility issues that aren’t WCAG violations. 
    
2. Sample Projects. To demonstrate how to integrate accessibility testing into your existing automated testing process, you'll have access to a number of sample projects for popular test automation frameworks. These include sample helper files that show how to call our accessibility tests from within these automated testing tools. 

Currently, sample projects are available for the following frameworks: 

1. Continuum for C#
   1. xUnit
2. Continuum for Java:
   1. Cucumber / Selenium
   2. TestNG on Sauce Labs
   3. JUnit
3. Continuum for JavaScript:
   1. Jasmine / Karma
   2. CucumberJs / Selenium
   3. Jest
   4. Playwright
   5. WebdriverIO
4. Continuum for Ruby
   1. Cucumber/Selenium
5. Continuum for Python:
   1. Robot Framework / Selenium
6. Continuum for Mobile:
   1. Appium - Android
   2. Appium - iOS