Add accessibility validation to Appium script

Accessibility validation flags issues like touch target size, color contrast, and content labeling on the screens your Appium automation session visits. Results appear in Session Explorer after the session completes.

By default, Appium automation sessions don’t run accessibility validation.

Required capabilities

Set both capabilities to true. If either is missing, the session records no accessibility results.

Capability Value

kobiton:accessibilityValidation

true

kobiton:scriptlessCapture

true

Example
capabilities.setCapability("kobiton:accessibilityValidation", true);
capabilities.setCapability("kobiton:scriptlessCapture", true);

Session behavior

  • Sessions with accessibility validation take longer to run.

  • Accessibility results continue processing after the session ends. Wait several minutes before treating issue counts as final.