Sort axe report violations by severity, then standard

[cwickham]

Note

Was stacked on #14677 (vendored axe-core); that PR merged, and this branch is rebased onto main.

Description

The axe document reporter currently lists violations in axe-core's own order. This PR sorts them most-important-first, matching axe DevTools' impact-first convention:

1. Impact: critical → serious → moderate → minor → null/unknown
2. Conformance standard: WCAG A → AA → AAA → Best Practice → obsolete criteria → untagged
3. Rule id alphabetically, for deterministic output

The sort happens in createReportElement, so all three report containers (fixed overlay, revealjs report slide, dashboard offcanvas) and the dashboard rescan path inherit it. The reporter sorts a copy of the violations array, so output: json keeps emitting axe's raw result untouched, and console output is unchanged.

The rank helpers (impactRank, standardRank, compareViolations) are exported for unit testing, following the axeConformanceLevel pattern, and share a new parseConformanceTags helper with axeConformanceLevel rather than duplicating the tag regexes. The exported helpers are also intended for reuse by the upcoming project-level accessibility scanner.

Part of the axe accessibility QoL series.

Checklist

I have (if applicable):

• referenced the GitHub issue this PR closes
• updated the appropriate changelog in the PR
• ensured the present test suite passes
• added new tests
• created a separate documentation PR in Quarto's website repo and linked it to this PR

Notes: no GitHub issue exists for this change (QoL improvement agreed in the axe PR series plan); no user-facing option is added, so no docs PR is needed. New unit tests in tests/unit/axe-sort.test.ts (8 tests) pass, as do the existing tests/unit/axe-conformance.test.ts tests (9) covering the shared-parser refactor. The existing Playwright axe assertions use toContainText and are order-insensitive, so they pass unchanged.

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• AI tool used: Claude Code
• Codebase grounding: local clone
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[cwickham]

Added a Playwright regression test (e8c9b3a): a new fixture html/axe-sort-order.qmd triggers image-alt (critical), color-contrast (serious), and heading-order (moderate) — axe-core emits these roughly alphabetically by rule id, which is not severity order, so the test fails if the report stops sorting. Verified passing locally on chromium. Standard tie-breaks within one impact level stay unit-tested only, since reliably triggering two same-impact rules with different standards is fragile against axe-core upgrades.

[cderv]

@cwickham I converted as draft to make it clear we need to wait for #14677

[cderv]

Looks good. Definitely a good idea to sort this way ! Thanks