accessible-ui-helper

Repository for the Accessible UI (AccUI) Helper Project - CSCI2340 Software Engineering Course.

Our web application allows for developers to check their website's accessibility as they develop, and generates automated fixes for any accessibility violation the user wants to correct. For more information about the accessibility guidelines we follow, you can refer to the W3C Accessibility Standards page. Unlike many other accessibility evaluatora, the site is able to the analyze dynamic webpages with multiple pages.

Official webpage (Deployed on a VM hosted by the CS department, and open until Dec 21, 2024): https://accui.cs.brown.edu

💻⚙️ Tech Stack

• Front-End: React.js
• Back-End: Express
• Language: TypeScript
• Delivery: Docker and Nginx

✅ Pre-requisites

• Node.js (v16 and up)
• React.js
• OpenAI API key. Add a .env file to the root of accessible-ui-helper/backend/, and inside the file add GPT_API_TOKEN=<yourOpenAiApiKey>. For more info on OpenAI API keys, check the OpenAI website.
• Docker (if running via containers using docker-compose)

🗂️ Folder structure

.
├── .github                  # Old unused code
├── accui-test-folder        # Sample project users can use to test AccUI
├── backend                  # Contains back-end code
│   ├── ...                 
│   └── Dockerfile                                
├── frontend                 # Contains front-end code
│   ├── ...                 
│   └── Dockerfile                                  
├── nginx
│   ├── default.conf         # Nginx config
│   └── Dockerfile
├── status                   # Contains status.md files for each contributor
│   └── ...                
├── .gitignore
├── code_style.md
├── docker-compose.yml       # Configuration to build and run nginx, frontend, and backend containers   
├── package-lock.json             
├── package.json                   
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── ...                      # Transpiler config, homepage image

🛠️ Installation

To run this application locally, follow the installation instructions in the frontend README, as well as the backend README files.

💻 Usage

Local run

If running locally, run the following commands in different terminal windows to start the front-end and back-end

npm start # front-end

npm run dev # back-end with hot reload

Running with Docker

If running the application on docker, please make sure the docker daemon is running (you can check docker desktop if on a Mac or Windows PC). Then run

docker-compose up --build

Test folder

If you want to test AccUI's capabilities, we have the accui-test-folder in the root of this repo you can feel free to upload into the web app. It is a simple Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS project with an index.html an and about.html page.

Example project to run

You can run an example project located in the frontend public directory. Download the zip file and unzip it. Then simply upload the unzipped file into specified upload box on the home page.

👥 AccUI Team

Front-End

• Marie Baker
• Yongcheng Shi
• Stephanie Olaiya
• Jiecheng Chen
• Brandon Woodard

Back-End

• Sybille Légitime
• Rio Young
• Ruoqian Zhang
• Zheng Que

License

MIT License