cypress-axe: Weird error after initial setup

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This happens after finishing setup and trying to run a sample test.

This is in my command that I use to login:

    .then((url) => {
      cy.intercept('api/users/user/profile/').as('login');
      cy.visit(url);
      cy.wait('@login');
      cy.injectAxe();
    }),

Error happens on the cy.injectAxe() line.

Thanks!

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)

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I was able to work around this by creating my own injectAxe method in my tests.

const injectAxe = () => {
  //cy.injectAxe();
  // cy.injectAxe is currently broken. https://github.com/component-driven/cypress-axe/issues/82

  // Creating our own injection logic
  cy.readFile('../../node_modules/axe-core/axe.min.js').then((source) => {
    return cy.window({ log: false }).then((window) => {
        window.eval(source);
    });
  });
};

Then instead of calling cy.injectAxe(), I call my own method to inject the script.

bstruthers on Feb 16, 2021

Yes, this issue still exists with the latest version, we tried calling our own method to inject the script.

const injectAxe = () => {

cy.readFile(‘…/…/node_modules/axe-core/axe.min.js’).then((source) => { return cy.window({ log: false }).then((window) => { window.eval(source); }); }); };

soniajains on Dec 7, 2021

This issue is not resolved when using cypress-axe 0.13.0 and axe-core 4.3.5

When I’m seeing this I’m even wondering if this is still being maintained?

DannyvanHolten on Nov 2, 2021

@craig-dae Did you fix the issue? I have the same problem and any workarounds don’t work for me.

Sadorus on Feb 1, 2021