GitHub Action

Horn provides a drop-in GitHub Action for validating PDFs in your CI pipeline.

Usage

- uses: focusring/horn@v1
  with:
    path: ./output/

Inputs

Input	Required	Default	Description
path	yes	—	PDF file or directory to validate
recurse	no	true	Recursively scan directories
format	no	sarif	Output format: text, json, sarif, junit
fail-on	no	error	Minimum severity to fail: error, warning, info
version	no	latest	Horn version to install

Outputs

Output	Description
report	Path to the generated report file
compliant	true if all files are compliant, false otherwise

SARIF integration

When format: sarif (the default), the action automatically uploads results to GitHub Code Scanning using the github/codeql-action/upload-sarif action. Accessibility findings appear as annotations on pull requests and in the repository's Security tab.

Examples

Basic usage

name: PDF Accessibility
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: focusring/horn@v1
        with:
          path: ./docs/

With JUnit output

- uses: focusring/horn@v1
  with:
    path: ./output/
    format: junit
    fail-on: warning

Pinned version

- uses: focusring/horn@v1
  with:
    path: ./output/
    version: '0.2.0'