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Tools like playwright allow pretty nice web UI testing. You can make sure things are working properly and continue working as things change.

Doesn't replace human testing but it does ease the human load and help catch problems and regressions before they get to the human testers.



> Tools like playwright allow pretty nice web UI testing.

Can they test for color blindness and myopia?


There are tools that can analyze a page for accessibility. I don't have experience with them but I wouldn't be surprised if you could include them in a CI/CD pipeline. I don't know whether they specifically control for color blindness and myopia but I wouldn't be surprised if they do. I know they check for contrast and stuff like that.

You could also check things like colors etc using Playwright but I would say it's probably the wrong tool for that job. It's more about testing functionality - make sure a page has the right content and works correctly on a technical level.

Without automated tools this type of thing can take a lot of time - in order to ensure quality you would basically have to click through the entire application for every release. Otherwise you might end up with some minor changes to one page breaking a different page and you'd never know until a tester checked it out or a user complained. With Playwright and similar tools you can catch regressions like this automatically.


“Doesn't replace human testing”

It’s like you stopped reading to try to score internet points or something. The answer to your question was one more sentence from where you stopped reading


The point of the question was to both see if the bar has changed and to address the overall article's point "Can we test it".



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