Axe: Structure (structure)

axe/structure contains accessibility rules from the axe structure category.

See the “Can the hint be configured?” section of hint-axe for examples of enabling, disabling, and changing the severity of individual rules.

Default rules (WCAG 2.1 Level A and Level AA)

• Inline text spacing must be adjustable with custom stylesheets (avoid-inline-spacing)
• <dl> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements (definition-list)
• <dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl> (dlitem)
• <ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (list)
• <li> elements must be contained in a <ul> or <ol> (listitem)

Additional rules (off by default)

• CSS Media queries must not lock display orientation (css-orientation-lock)
• Frames should be tested with axe-core (frame-tested)
• Hidden content on the page should be analyzed (hidden-content)