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

July 17, 2020

Extension:

• Filtering
• Scrolling fixes
• Adjustment of headings, landmarks
• Option / Settings improvements

June 18

Extension:

• Resolve permission issue for Chrome extension requested by Chrome store
• Scan in detached panel
• Saved report names are more specific
• Some accessibility tweaks.

Rules:

• Disable some document-oriented rules when scanning in an iframe with role="presentation" or aria-hidden
• Fix label in name for textareas

June 10

Extension

• Updates to user guide
• Scrolling and focus fixes
• Minor accessibility updates
• Remove unsafe eval from content security requirements - not needed.

accessibility-checker, karma-accessibility-checker

• Better error handling

May 22 fix

Issue with link to extension user guide

May 22 updates

Extension

• Update user guide
• Open links in new windows rather than within the panel

accessibility-checker, karma-accessibility-checker

• Add html as a report format option

May 13 hotfix

• Table rule was only firing on the first scan of a page
• Help documents with HTML code snippets were causing mdx parse problems - moved to Carbon CodeSnippet
• Adding descriptions to rulesets for future extension use
• Fixed version message shown on splash screen

May 12, 2020 Update

This release includes:

• Improvement to the help and example sections
• Addition of HTML reports to automated tools
• Addition of frame checking in the engine
• Bug fixes and improvements
• Readme instruction updates
• Performance updates
• UI/UX updates

Initial Node/Karma NPM Release

Initial push of Node and Karma tools to NPM