Explanation

Background reading for when you want to understand how b8e behaves, away from the keyboard. For steps and flags, go to the how-to guides and the reference.

• About the two scanning models: static source vs live DOM — which command answers which question, and what each one can and cannot see.
• About components the scanner can and cannot see — how your wrappers get traced to the elements rules are written about, and what to do when one cannot be.
• About how findings are ordered — severity first, reach as a tiebreak, and why the order can differ between your laptop and CI.
• About anonymous usage telemetry — exactly what one event contains, what it never contains, and the two ways to switch it off.