Deploy Without the Drama: Automating Accessibility & Code Quality Testing

A shared Drupal upstream can push the same code change to hundreds of websites, so one accessibility or code quality issue can quickly scale across an entire web ecosystem. This session shares how UCSB built a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to test upstream changes before they are released broadly. For each pull request, the workflow uses Push to Pantheon (GitHub Action) to deploy temporary Multidev environments, then runs code quality checks, Drupal deprecation checks, and automated accessibility tests. The pipeline generates HTML and JSON reports and posts GitHub comments with links to the results. It also covers how custom Drush commands and Drupal AI skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot can use those same reports to audit findings, assist with safe remediation, and help developers decide when a branch is ready to merge. Attendees will leave with a practical model for reducing release risk, improving remediation workflows, and preventing accessibility and code regressions across many Drupal sites.