aXe based a11y checks in your CI for Storybook

axe.js

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const chalk = require('chalk');

const { green, red, cyan, grey, bold } = chalk;

// we assume storybook can visited at http://localhost:9001
const url = 'http://localhost:9001/iframe.html';

const runAxe = () =>
  new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
    axe.run('#root', { runOnly: ['wcag2a'] }, (error, result) =>
      error ? reject(error) : resolve(result)
    )
  );

puppeteer.launch().then(async (browser) => {
  // setup
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto(url);
  const stories = await page.evaluate(
    ({ innerText }) => JSON.parse(innerText),
    await page.$('#sitemap')
  );

  // collect errors
  const errors = [];
  for (const { kind, name } of stories) {
    const selectedKind = `selectedKind=${encodeURIComponent(kind)}`;
    const selectedStory = `selectedStory=${encodeURIComponent(name)}`;
    await page.goto(`${url}?${selectedKind}&${selectedStory}`);
    const { violations } = await page.evaluate(runAxe);

    if (violations.length) {
      errors.push({ kind, name, violations });
    }
  }
  await browser.close();

  // result
  if (errors.length) {
    errors.forEach(({ kind, name, violations }) => {
      console.error(bold(`Error(s) in ${red(`${kind}/${name}`)}:`));
      violations.forEach(({ description, nodes }) => {
        console.error(`${description} (${grey(`${nodes.length} times`)})`);
      });
      console.error('');
    });

    const sum = errors.reduce((acc, error) => acc + error.violations.length, 0);
    console.error(`${red('✖')} Found ${red(sum)} error(s)!\n`);
    const page = cyan('http://localhost:9001');
    console.error(
      `Open ${page} and visit the mentioned stories to find out more about where the problems happen and how they can be fixed.\n`
    );
    process.exitCode = 1;
  } else {
    console.log(`${green('✔')} Everything is WCAG2A compatible!`);
  }
});

config.js

// ususally .storybook/config.js:
import { getStorybook } from '@storybook/react';

// ...your usual config is here...

// create "sitemap" which can be queried by other tools
const myStories = [];
getStorybook().forEach(({ kind, stories }) =>
  stories.forEach(({ name }) => myStories.push({ kind, name }))
);
const data = document.createElement('script');
data.type = 'application/json';
data.id = 'sitemap';
data.innerText = JSON.stringify(myStories);
document.head.append(data);

spawn a webpack server

A better option is to use http-server to serve a static build