Exclude django-debug-toolbar from the Pa11y CI scan (#1278)#1342
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The a11y job runs with DEBUG=True (so runserver serves media/static), which injects django-debug-toolbar into every page. Its markup accounted for ~76% of the reported violations (126 unlabeled panel checkboxes + 42 contrast findings) — dev-only noise absent from production. Hide #djDebug (same mechanism already used for #js-toc) so the baseline reflects the real site. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What & why
Follow-up to the Pa11y CI job (#1278 item 6, merged in #1340).
The
a11yjob runsrunserverwithDEBUG=True(needed so it serves media/static while pa11y scans). That injects django-debug-toolbar into every page — and its markup was ~76% of the reported violations: 126 "form element needs a visible label" (the toolbar's panel checkboxes) + 42 color-contrast findings. None of that exists in production (DEBUG=False, no toolbar), so it made the baseline misleading.Fix: add
#djDebug(the toolbar's root container, confirmed indebug_toolbar/templates/debug_toolbar/base.html) tohideElements— the same pa11y mechanism already used for#js-toc.After this, the scan reports only real site violations (~54, across 4 types). Tracking issue for those to follow.
Scope
One-line config change. No app/schema change; report-only job stays report-only.
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