June 16, 2021

Rules (for June 16 deploy)

• Update ARIA checking for ARIA 1.2
• Improve Shadow DOM support
• Align some rules with ACT rules

Browser extensions

• Update screenshots in user guides
• Fixes for JAWS

June 3, 2021

Node tool

Hotfix release to fix some issues with accessibility-checker using protractor.

Browser extensions

Accessibility Assessment View:

• fixed report button being read two times by JAWS

Checker View:

• Moved multiscan report status under the scan button
• changed colors of the excel accessibility report to have less bright colors
• fix problem editing user scan labels
• added confirmation dialogs when deleting scans
• shortened file name of the reports
• fixed spreadsheet error when using old rulesets

Both Views:

• fixed JAWS user not able to navigate pass the information button
• fixed JAWS not letting user know that issue accordions are collapsed or expanded
• move issues to the left to allow more issues to been seen by the user
• fix inconsistent language in the reports
• fixed element aria paths that were cut off
• swapped the level icons and numbers to that all aligned vertically
• additional layout optimizations

April 27, 2021

Release highlights…
Browser extension:

• Now able to log scans and export a spreadsheet with summaries and details across multiple scans
• Better layouts for narrow panel widths (for side docking)
• UX improvements to the archive / policy selections
• Update help links for ARIA 1.2
• Add support for open shadow DOMs

Tools:

• Support for customization of rulesets (see accessibility-checker/boilerplates/jest-customRS)
• Support for an aceconfig.js instead of achecker.js due to naming conflicts on Windows.
• Node 14 updates

Rules:

• Various updates to improve ARIA / HTML support, particularly some tweaks to better handle implicit ARIA hierarchies.
• New rule to flag when ARIA roles are used on table structure elements within a table/grid/treegrid
• Engine improvements to better handle open shadow DOMs and HTML templates

Mar 3, 2021

Highlights...
Browser extension

• Fixes when panel width gets small
• Removed some redundant elements
• Adjustments to user guide and options page

accessibility-checker

• Wrong URL was calculated for fetching rules when using an archive other than 'latest' or 'preview'

Feb 12, 2021

• cypress-accessibility-checker package missing genReport.js

Feb 11, 2021 hotfix

• Added typescript, mocha, puppeteer boilerplate
• Corrected Typescript definitions for getCompliance

Feb 11, 2021

Highlights...

• Help updates for spelling, links
• UI fixes for browser extension
• Update NPM package dependencies
• Node accessibility-checker converted to Typescript
• Combobox rules

Discovered issue:

• If you encounter TypeError: Cannot read property 'getCompliance' of undefined for existing code, you may need a change to imports. For example import aChecker from "accessibility-checker" may need to change to import * as aChecker from "accessibility-checker"

Oct 08, 2020

Hotfix for accessibility-checker, wrong puppeteer version specified.

Oct 07, 2020

Highlights...

Browser extension:

• Adds a new 'focused' view, which allows the Elements subpanel to only display issues related to the element selected in the Elements main panel. See the user guide for more information
• Help files and 'auditor' main panel are redesigned to improve reading order

Engine & Rules, new archive 07Oct2020 created:

• Adds support for ARIA Graphics roles
• Reduces same foreground and background color to a "Potential Violation"/"Needs Review". These have been seen for text that animates into view
• Removed violations for inputs that define accessible name via title since the browsers support this
• Only trigger color review notifications due to external CSS stylesheets once per page
• Ignore sensory text that occurs outside of the body

cypress-accessibility-checker:

• No longer a wrapper for accessibility-checker, but rather a first-class, in-context checker for Cypress
• Modified methods to align better with other tools

accessibility-checker:

• Updated puppeteer version to deal with crash issues
• Added a boilerplate to show scripted batch scanning
• Add support for parallel URL scanning

karma-accessibility-checker:

• Added missing boilerplates
• Fix to only output requested report types

Aug 13, 2020

Tools:

• Add Cypress wrapper to release
• Fix copy from help documents
• Adjust development builds to work on Windows

Browser Extension:

• Design changes to filtering, sorting.
• Improved error messages.
• Rule listing tab does not change when accessing help.
• Design changes to options based on user research

Rules:

• HAAC_Video_HasNoTrack: Change from violation to review
• HAAC_Application_Role_Text: Detect text in role=‘application’
• Rpt_Aria_MultipleBannerLandmarks_Implicit: Wrong error message token used
• WCAG20_Input_ExplicitLabel: Support button image with alt text
• WCAG20_Input_LabelAfter: Was not detecting more complex DOM structures correctly