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## Accessibility.snapshot() method

Captures the current state of the accessibility tree. The returned object represents the root accessible node of the page.

<b>Signature:</b>

```typescript
snapshot(options?: SnapshotOptions): Promise<SerializedAXNode>;
```

## Parameters

|  Parameter | Type | Description |
|  --- | --- | --- |
|  options | [SnapshotOptions](./puppeteer.snapshotoptions.md) |  |

<b>Returns:</b>

Promise&lt;[SerializedAXNode](./puppeteer.serializedaxnode.md)&gt;

An AXNode object representing the snapshot.

## Remarks

\*\*NOTE\*\* The Chromium accessibility tree contains nodes that go unused on most platforms and by most screen readers. Puppeteer will discard them as well for an easier to process tree, unless `interestingOnly` is set to `false`.

## Example 1

An example of dumping the entire accessibility tree:

```js
const snapshot = await page.accessibility.snapshot();
console.log(snapshot);

```

## Example 2

An example of logging the focused node's name:

```js
const snapshot = await page.accessibility.snapshot();
const node = findFocusedNode(snapshot);
console.log(node && node.name);

function findFocusedNode(node) {
  if (node.focused)
    return node;
  for (const child of node.children || []) {
    const foundNode = findFocusedNode(child);
    return foundNode;
  }
  return null;
}

```