Accessible web testing with Playwright and Axe...

This is the third article in a series on accessibility testing for QA engineers. The first one covered Cypress with axe-core and went into why accessibility testing matters, what the 2025 WebAIM Million report found, and the legal landscape around ADA and the European Accessibility Act. The second explored wick-a11y as an alternative Cypress plugin with built-in HTML reporting. This article adapts every example to Playwright using @axe-core/playwright, Deque's official integration. The accessibi