August 27, 2021

Rules (for Aug 27 deploy)

• New rule aria_hidden_focus_misuse triggers when focusable elements within an aria-hidden subtree
• New rule meta_viewport_zoom triggers when zoom is restricted
• Rule fixes related to tables and association of headers
• Bug with caches not clearing between scans for framed pages

Browser extensions

• Refresh of help text for new standards and overall consistency
• Layout fixes

Tools

• Node: Fix bug with command-line tool with query strings exist in the url
• Cypress: Issue with peer dependencies

July 21, 2021

Rules (for July 21 deploy)

• Fix for blockquote rule to ignore style blocks, and truncate long quotes for messages
• Fix support for aria-level, aria-setsize, and aria-posinset related to 'row' roles unless within a 'treegrid'

Browser extensions

• Fix archive and policy selection

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.