Wire Pa11y accessibility sweep into CI (report-only) (#1278 item 6)#1340
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CONTRIBUTING requires Pa11y on UI changes but nothing enforced it. Add a report-only a11y job to test.yml (matches the test/e2e 'signal, not gate' philosophy): builds a fresh schema from models, seeds deterministic demo content, serves it with a native runserver, and runs pa11y-ci, posting results to the run Summary. - .pa11yci.ci.json: CI variant of .pa11yci.json. The local config targets the compose host with the maintainer's real DB snapshot; CI has no snapshot, so this scans localhost URLs backed by seeded demo content. - seed_demo_news: small idempotent command so /news/ and a news detail render with content (pairs with the existing seed_demo_projects). Report-only for now (|| true) so pre-existing violations don't sit red next to every master deploy; can tighten to blocking once findings are triaged. Validated locally: all 9 scanned URLs return 200 with the seeded slugs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What & why
Implements item 6 of the testing roadmap (#1278): CONTRIBUTING requires a Pa11y a11y check on UI changes, but nothing enforced it. This adds a Pa11y + Axe (WCAG 2.0 AA) job to CI.
Report-only — like the existing
testande2ejobs ("signal, not gate"). It surfaces violations in the run Summary but never fails the build, so a pre-existing violation doesn't sit red next to everymasterdeploy. Easy to tighten to blocking later once the current findings are triaged.How it works
The local
.pa11yci.jsontargets the docker-compose host (website:8000) with the maintainer's real DB snapshot (jonfroehlich,sidewalk, …). CI has no snapshot, so the new job:migrate --run-syncdbundersettings_test, since migrations are gitignored).seed_demo_projects+ a new tinyseed_demo_news.runserver(mirrors thee2ejob's native-Python approach).pa11y-ciagainst.pa11yci.ci.json(localhost URLs backed by the seeded slugs) and posts results to the run Summary.Files
.github/workflows/test.yml— newa11yjob (Postgres service + ImageMagick/Ghostscript, same as the others)..pa11yci.ci.json— CI variant pointing atlocalhost:8000; the local-dev config is untouched.website/management/commands/seed_demo_news.py— small, idempotent, deterministic-slug news seed so/news/and a news detail render. Dev/CI tool; not wired intodocker-entrypoint.sh.Validation
Ran both seed commands and confirmed all 9 scanned URLs return 200 with the predicted slugs (
/project/demo-active-tall/,/member/demolovelace/,/news/demo-news-one/, plus the listing pages), then cleaned the demo data back out of the dev DB. Workflow YAML validated.Scope
No app behavior or schema change, so no version bump. Item 5 (the test backfill) is the separate PR #1339.
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