Releases: dequelabs/axe-core
Release 4.7.2
This release corrects the Trusted Tester v5 tags, which were introduced in 4.7.0, and it addresses a few false positives which for pages with forms may result in a few less issues found.
Bug Fixes
Release 4.7.1
This release addresses a number of bugs. Some things that were failed in the previous release may now be passed or require manual review.
Bug Fixes
- aria-allowed-attr: no inconsistent aria-checked on HTML checkboxes (#3895) (704043e)
- aria-allowed-attrs: add aria-expanded to allowed attrs for menuitemcheckbox and menuitemradio (#3994) (0f405c6)
- aria-required-children: trigger reviewEmpty with hidden children (#4012) (a19b6cb)
- color-contrast: support CSS 4 color spaces (#4020) (65621c3)
- link-in-text-block: set links with pseudo-content for review (#4005) (949f4f8)
Release 4.7.0
This release adds support for a few features that have been added to browsers in the last year. No new rules are added, and it did not make axe-core stricter in any other significant way. The number of issues reported by this version may be lower than from the prior version. Of one rule, the impact level was raised.
Features
- aria-roledescription: deprecate rule (#3948) (1913a9e)
- aria-roles: deprecate the ARIA directory role (#3952) (893fdd0)
- d.ts: setup/teardown, reporters & metadata definitions (#3966) (78264ee)
- deprecate bower (#3889) (651d811)
- deprecate color.filteredRectStack, color.getRectStack, and dom.visuallyContains (#3859) (3be2bad)
- dom.focusDisabled,dom.isVisibleForScreenreader: support the inert attribute (#3857) (273c971)
- metadata: add Trusted Tester tag (#3986) (1f6a2a6)
- support the dialog element (#3902) (d4522cd)
Bug Fixes
- aria-allowed-attrs: allow aria-description and aria-braille* attrs (#3956) (2842395)
- aria-input-field-name: skip combobox popups (#3886) (3dcdd42)
- aria-required-children: allow separator in menu(bar) (#3868) (ec9f507)
- aria-required-children: do not fail for children with aria-hidden (#3949) (8714d6b)
- aria-required-children: list elements that are not allowed (#3951) (cce7586)
- autocomplete-valid: allow webauthn token (#3866) (fd3010f)
- color-contrast: correcly apply opacity to foreground color (#3973) (d7db279)
- color-contrast: correctly calculate contrast of flex/grid items with z-index (#3884) (cef96be)
- color-contrast: correctly compute background color for elements with opacity (#3944) (c051fe8), closes #3932
- color-contrast: correctly compute color contrast of elements (#3847) (4c3a00c)
- color-contrast: do not check contrast on elemets that are inerted (#3894) (da19946)
- color-contrast: skip ligature icons (#3867) (9486288)
- create-grid: correctly compute stack order for non-positioned stacking contexts (#3930) (8db2c24), closes #3932
- css-orientation-lock: support the css rotate property (#3958) (c51f8bf)
- focus-order-semantics: Add ARIA role article to list of valid roles for scrollable regions (#3927) (f029271)
- is-icon-ligature: prevent canvas2d warning willReadFrequently (#3931) (b3c52bb)
- link-in-text-block: allow links with identical colors (#3861) (5f90040)
- respondable: work with CDP
Page.setDocumentContent(#3921) (66f23e5) - scrollable-region-focusable: change impact to serious (#3959) (e3a5c21)
- scrollable-region-focusable: skip native controls (#3862) (b0bdefa)
Release 4.6.3
This release can reduce the number of issues reported. On color-contrast it will result in fewer incomplete results (aka "needs review"), which may result in a few more color-contrast violations found.
Bug Fixes
- aria-required-children: allow separator in menu(bar) (#3868) (46c9499)
- autocomplete-valid: allow webauthn token (#3866) (a3d1b9d)
- color-contrast: correctly compute color contrast of
<slot>elements (#3847) (844cea1) - color-contrast: skip ligature icons (#3867) (7dfbd9a)
- link-in-text-block: allow links with identical colors (#3861) (6761f36)
- scrollable-region-focusable: skip native controls (#3862) (aaf44e9)
Release 4.6.2
Release 4.6.1
Release 4.6.0
This release adds requirements introduced in WAI-ARIA 1.2, which can result in new issues. The color contrast rule has been improved which should reduce the number of incomplete (aka "needs review") results.
Lastly, this release adds the ability to include or exclude elements inside shadow DOM trees from a test run. See [dom selection] for details.
Features
- aria-required-attr: require aria-controls on combobox and aria-valuenow on focusable separator (#3786) (5259e88)
- checks/label-content-name-mismatch: deprecate occuranceThreshold option in favor of occurrenceThreshold to fix typo (#3782) (5026d65)
- commons: deprecate flattenShadowColors in favor of flattenColors (#3792) (af49daf)
- context: allow selecting shadow DOM nodes (#3798) (9e1e31b)
- list,listitem: do not allow group as allowed parent or child (#3784) (d1cbf6f)
- required-attr: require aria-checked for checkbox-like and radio-like roles (#3785) (563e4e9)
- utils: new shadowSelectAll utility (#3796) (5865462)
Bug Fixes
- aria-allowed-role: allow combobox on button, checkbox and combobox on input[type=button] (#3354) (ac688c0), closes #3353
- aria-required-children: allow menu as child of menu (#3820) (a6569e5)
- color-contrast: consider -webkit-text-stroke & -webkit-text-fill-color (#3791) (228daf1)
- color-contrast: correctly calculate background color of text nodes with different size than their container (#3703) (123b83c)
- get-role: handle presentation role inheritance for vnodes with no parent (#3801) (b971caf)
- html-lang-valid: only run rule when attribute has value (#3663) (1a7eecb), closes #3624
- metadata: Map aria-required-children to ACT rule bc4a75 (#3790) (a33a523)
Release 4.5.2
This release can result in fewer issues reported on link-in-text-block and aria-required-children. This release addresses an issue where color-contrast and target-size violations were not reported after the page was scrolled.
Bug Fixes
- aria-required-children: allow menu and menubar to be empty (#3770) (d11aed8)
- create-grid: include elements scrolled out of view in the grid (#3773) (a563263)
- do not warn when using webpack (#3777) (d6cef9a)
- link-in-text-block: don't match style or script text (#3775) (ab877f9)
- prevent undefined relatedNodes from halting axe (#3778) (efefb18)
Release 4.5.1
This release does not change results of axe-core. It resolves a problem where axe had gotten unnecessarily picky about which order things need to be loaded in in some test environments.
Bug Fixes
Release 4.5.0
This release may increase or decrease the number of violations reported. This can be because some rules have changed in which ruleset they run (best practice to WCAG, and vice versa). It can also be because the rules themselves got stricter in some places so are able to find new violations, and got more permissive in other places in order to handle more edge cases.
Tags that indicate which success criteria a rule tests violations for have been changed for several rules. In some cases new success criteria tags were added, and in others criteria tags were removed.
Features
Highlights
- new rule: Add WCAG 2.2 target-size rule (off by default) (#3616) (691f1b6)
- new rule: Add meta-refresh-no-exceptions (off by default, wcag2aaa) (#3530) (27031a8)
- identical-links-same-purpose: Disable by default (wcag2aaa rule) (#3615) (a2c2d2f)
- link-in-text-block: Remove experimental and enable by default (#3706) (37b6e7a)
- i18n: Add Norwegian Bokmål locale (#3375) (2886d33)
- i18n: Add Hebrew translation (#3438) (b4162ed)
Tags and Metadata Updates
Various changes of tags, for greater consistency with ACT Rules.
- area-alt: Remove the wcag111 tag (#3479) (1c3cc51)
- aria-hidden-focus: Remove the wcag131 tag (#3477) (36ace76)
- empty-table-headers: Rule is now best-practice and fails instead of incompletes (#3427) (0a4397d), closes #3404
- frame-title: Remove wcag241 tag (#3519) (9c6b828)
- input-image-alt: Add the wcag412 tag (#3478) (34272c6)
- label,select-name: Remove the sc131 tag (#3476) (7caef89)
- meta-viewport: Report as violation of wcag 1.4.4 (#3704) (6f7e4a9)
- metadata: Update ACT tags & actIds (#3498) (571722b)
Deprecations
- Deprecate Internet Explorer support (#3644) (11f5163)
- Deprecate sri-history.json file (#3646) (6f6a89e)
- Deprecate and replace dom.isVisible, utils.isHidden, and dom.isHiddenWithCss (#3351) (1ae2ac0)
- Deprecate only-dlitems-evaluate & only-listitems-evaluate methods (#3724) (322e9ed)
- Deprecate presentation-role-conflict-matchess (#3638) (0f02a15)
- Deprecate is-visible-matches, use is-visible-on-screen-matches (#3679) (738dd8f)
- Deprecate not-html-matches, use :not(html) instead (#3540) (e0010d9)
Others
- aria-roles: Permit fallback roles (#3683) (5665260)
- aria-required-children: Allow aria-busy on children (#3569) (3618f50)
- aria-required-children: Fail for children which are not listed as required (#3597) (b5ceabc)
- getRules: Return actIds when set (#3470) (a3d5cef)
- is-in-tab-order: Add isInTabOrder to commons (#3619) (77afe90), closes #3500
- list/definition-list: Only allow required owned roles (#3707) (a920d35)
- presentation-role-conflict: Test img elements with empty alt (#3717) (ea32fa7)
Bug Fixes
- utils: greatly improve the speed of querySelectorAll (#3423) (1cae5ea)
- aria-hidden-focus: Do not fail for focus trap bumper elements (#3667) (46b6658)
- aria-required-attr: aria-valuenow is no longer required for spinbutton (#3552) (a22cf56)
- aria-required-parent: Allow nested group and presentational roles (#3492) (4685270)
- aria-valid-attr-value: Report empty values as incomplete (#3635) (fff39db)
- avoid-inline-spacing: Add spacing threshold (#3533) (92add05)
- checks/no-focusable-disable: Don't count non-disableable elements as disabled (#3393) (bb8b5ca), closes #2466 #2934 #2934 #3315
- checks/unsupportedrole: Support unsupported dpub and fallback roles, add role to message (#3395) (3c0f10f), closes #2466 #2934 #2934 #3282
- color-contrast-enhanced: Avoid duplicates between color-contrast and color-contrast-enhanced (#3714) (2811f77)
- color-contrast: Correctly determine color contrast for element that exactly overlaps midpoint of node (#3565) (90de9aa)
- frame-focusable-content: don't fail for elements with negative tabindex ([#3493](https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-cor...