Surface Accessibility Reports Artifacts via Email about accessibility-insights-action HOT 4 CLOSED

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There are a couple ways to improve the discoverability of the artifacts report:

Improve error message logging

If the action finds errors, it will display a node process exit error message which does not have meaningful context to the user:

Exit code 1 returned from process: file name '/home/vsts/agents/2.206.1/externals/node16/bin/node', arguments '"/home/vsts/work/_tasks/accessibility-insights_dc031a10-21c6-5672-9e59-a8d92a9ba7f4/4.0.0/index.js"'.

Screenshots of current behavior

Email notification error:

Pipeline error:

Suggested fix

We can use the azure-pipe-lines-task-lib setResult to create a custom message, for example:

Scan completed with errors, visit the build's Extensions tab for full details and to download the accessibility report.

This will reduce ambiguity over the error and provide the user with next actions.

Update link text in the summary upload

When you open the extension tab, the link to the artifact's report may not be easily discoverable as it uses "run artifacts" as the link text:

See scan details by downloading the report from run artifacts

Screenshot of current behavior

Azure pipeline Extensions tab:

Suggested fix

To improve discoverable, we can update the link text to something more descriptive:

Download the accessibility report

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