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HIG Audit

HIG Audit

Sastha K L

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Lint HTML, CSS, and templates against The Web Human Interface Guidelines with inline diagnostics, rule IDs, and a score.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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HIG Audit

Lint HTML, CSS, Blade, Vue, and JSX/TSX files against The Web HIG. Findings appear as Problems with rule IDs so you can fix the same issues the web scanner reports.

Install from Visual Studio Marketplace

  1. Open the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X).
  2. Search for HIG Audit.
  3. Click Install.

Or from the Command Palette:

ext install SasthaKL.hig-audit

Install from VSIX

  1. Download hig-audit-vscode.vsix from the HIG Audit website or build it with npm run package in this folder.
  2. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
  3. Run Extensions: Install from VSIX… and select the file.
  4. Reload when prompted.

Features

  • Inline diagnostics for HTML, CSS, SCSS, Vue, Blade, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, and TSX
  • Quick, Lite, or Full audit depth
  • Problems panel entries with HIG rule IDs and remediation hints
  • Workspace-wide scan with an average score
  • Runs on your machine — source is not uploaded

Inline diagnostics

Command palette score

Problems panel

Commands

  • HIG Audit: Run on Current File — audit the active editor tab
  • HIG Audit: Run on Workspace — audit all supported files in the project

Right-click in a supported editor to run the current-file audit.

Settings

Setting Default Description
hig-audit.auditType lite quick, lite, or full
hig-audit.runOnSave true Re-run audit when saving supported files

Privacy

The extension reads the files you open or save in the workspace so it can score them. Scoring runs locally. Source, diagnostics, and scores are not sent to HIG Audit servers. See Privacy.

Support

  • Issues: github.com/frozonfreak/hig-audit/issues
  • The Web HIG: github.com/frozonfreak/hig
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