Rules

Abra Desktop uses rules to evaluate whether an app is accessible.

There are two ways of testing: automated and semi-automated.

Automated testing

Using Abra Desktop, you can automatically evaluate a total of 25 rules.

You can select the rules to use when scanning from the Abra Desktop Settings.

Automated Abra rules

1. Portrait orientation
2. Landscape orientation
3. Target size (minimum)
4. Target size (enhanced)

Automated Apple rules

1. Contrast
2. Dynamic type
3. Element detection
4. Hit region
5. Sufficient element description
6. Text clipped
7. Trait

Automated Google rules

1. Class name
2. Clickable span
3. Duplicate clickable bounds
4. Duplicate speakable text
5. Editable content description
6. Image contrast
7. Link purpose unclear
8. Redundant description
9. Speakable text present
10. Text contrast
11. Text size
12. Touch target size
13. Traversal order
14. Unexposed text

Semi-automated testing

Using Abra Desktop, you can semi-automatically evaluate a total of 113 rules:

• 92 Abra rules
• 7 Apple rules
• 14 Google rules

The list of rules is shown when creating a new result using Abra Desktop.