pa11y hard to use from non-internet connected machines about pa11y HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi Tom,

Thanks for bringing this up.

We did look at keeping a copy locally briefly but it wasn't a big priority for our use-case. I'd be interested in merging if you wanted to work on this, but we're currently building the next major version of pa11y (no ETA yet) which no longer uses HTML CodeSniffer, so I don't have much time to dedicate to writing a fix myself.

Rowan

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@tomduckering This is probably what you're referring to, but in the event that it isn't:

You can supply the -c or --htmlcs flag to pa11y and have it load a different URL for HTML_CodeSniffer. For example:

$ wget http://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/build/HTMLCS.js
$ # Or alternatively `curl -O`
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
$ # Or put it on a server that your machines have access to

And run pa11y like so: pa11y --htmlcs localhost:8000/HTMLCS.js example.com.

I do agree though that this is jumping through hoops.

@rowanmanning Will v2.0 be open source?

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@whymarrh absolutely! Alpha stages at the moment, but was planning to get some early feedback from you at some point. Public roadmap should hopefully appear soon

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Marking this as resolved – you can achieve this from an offline machine in the way that @whymarrh specified for now. In the next version of pa11y, I'm considering moving to a locally-hosted version of HTML CodeSniffer by default which will make this much easier in future.

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