CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

3.0.3 (2018-06-04)

Bug Fixes

• Resolve markdown lint errors. (efdad94) (aa90155)
• Don't require all ARIA IDREFS to exist (#921) (130efed)
• generate unsupported aria roles and attributes. (7315662)
• Make empty role=lisbox elements as incomplete (#927) (87e979f)
• Prevent axe-core crashing on “-“ as a class name (#884) (9c4d84e)
• Right trim URLs before outputting them in getSelector (#924) (4775a23), closes #788
• td-has-heading to ignore td with its role changed (#928) (d68af4c)
• Update tags for frame-title rule (#935) (6436bbf)
• core: Define 'axe-core' as an AMD module (#859) (7b46f63), closes #849 #856 #861 #847 #844 #871 #849 #849
• Update tags to accesskey & link-name rules (#922) (a8e801c)
• rule: Layout-table does not match presentation / none roles (#828) (5651ecc)
• rule: restore labelledBy on unlabeled select (b7bdf66)
• rules: Allow focusable role=application elements (b5de450)
• typescript: Update ElementContext type (#822) (eb09248)

Features

• generate ARIA supported documentation for roles and attributes. (6f095dd)
• generated impacts as a part of rule descriptions (#898) (6265608)

3.0.2 (2018-04-24)

Bug Fixes

• rule: Allow empty aria-labelledby values (#829) (d280c5f)
• Prevent color rules from crashing Chrome 66+ #856 (#861) (147b665)
• respondable: Identify the current axe instance by its application name when it exists (affd75c)
• respondable: Use the hard-coded axe.application name as default (ab4a49f)
• rule: Ignore hashbang URLs for skiplinks (#827) (e1f0c57)
• rule: Tag video-caption only as SC 1.2.2 (87818e7)

3.0.1 (2018-04-03)

Bug Fixes

• allow mixed casing of caption/summary (ca091ac)
• Allow title on button-name (#794) (e31fe9a)
• sri: Fix incorrect sri-history entries (#789) (f5f55f3)

3.0.0 (2018-03-19)

Bug Fixes

• Allow exclusion of Shadow DOM content (cc66eb2)
• Avoid flatTree memory leak (a902e80)
• main-is-top-level: Rename check to landmark-is-top-level for greater reuse (b405af1)
• Avoid timing issue with axe cleanup method (24ea6a7)
• correct misnamed check (1e709e0)
• Correct runOnly object for TypeScript definition (571e984)
• has-at-least-one-main: Rename check to page-has-main, for reusability (9a9c283)
• has-no-more-than-one-main: Rename check to page-no-duplicate for better reuse (e75324b)
• region: Ignore forms without accessible name as landmarks (8ad2718)
• rule: skip-link rule doesn't decode URI encoded href's (818b5cd)
• Ensure all rules have a category tag (d61e67d)
• make getSelector work with URIs that cannot be shortened (a113555)

Features

• Make aria-level required with role=heading #740 (64b743f)
• aria: allow DPUB ARIA roles (70b48f6)
• frame-tested: Use this new rule to test if all frames are available, instead of axe.log (83cd17d)
• landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level: add rule ensuring top level contentinfo (5692e7d)
• landmark-no-more-than-one-banner: add rule ensuring no more than one banner (6617800)
• landmark-no-more-than-one-contentinfo: add rule ensuring no more than one contentinfo (82217ef)
• page-has-heading-one: Added new best-practice rule (cb8f261)
• rules: add new rule aria-dpub-role-fallback (9470c02)
• Make options.runOnly more forgiving about plurality (fa81f9d)
• Translated all 3.0 rules to Japanese (3862e7e)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Incorrect use of runOnly now throws errors
• main-is-top-level: The check main-is-top-level is no longer available
• has-at-least-one-main: Original has-at-least-one-main check is no longer available

3.0.0-beta.3 (2018-03-08)

Bug Fixes

• Correct runOnly object for TypeScript definition (571e984)
• has-at-least-one-main: Rename check to page-has-main, for reusability (9a9c283)
• has-no-more-than-one-main: Rename check to page-no-duplicate for better reuse (e75324b)
• main-is-top-level: Rename check to landmark-is-top-level for greater reuse (b405af1)
• region: Ignore forms without accessible name as landmarks (8ad2718)

Features

• aria-required-attr: Make aria-level required with role=heading #740 (64b743f)
• aria: allow DPUB ARIA roles (70b48f6)
• frame-tested: Use this new rule to test if all frames are available, instead of axe.log (83cd17d)
• landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level: Add rule ensuring top level contentinfo (5692e7d)
• landmark-no-more-than-one-banner: Add rule ensuring no more than one banner (6617800)
• landmark-no-more-than-one-contentinfo: Add rule ensuring no more than one contentinfo (82217ef)
• page-has-heading-one: Added new best-practice rule (cb8f261)
• rules: Add new rule aria-dpub-role-fallback (9470c02)

BREAKING CHANGES

• main-is-top-level: The check main-is-top-level is no longer available
• has-at-least-one-main: Original has-at-least-one-main check is no longer available

3.0.0-beta.2 (2018-03-01)

Bug Fixes

• perf: Improve getSelector performance (737c81c)
• Delete Selenium example, use grunt-axe-selenium instead (063e701)

Features

• Update Jasmin example (72d49d5)
• Update Jest+React example (5b35322)
• Update Mocha example (cf70f9f)
• Update PhantomJS example (641b5e6)
• Update QUnit example (028ae51)

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

3.0.0-beta.1 (2018-02-19)

Bug Fixes

• audio-caption: Change tag wcag122 to wcag121 #686 (#721) (9c7b9f1)
• empty-heading: Skip headings with the role changed #645 (#722) (80ef961)
• image-alt: Exclude svg[role="img"] elements (#683) (0fe74d8)
• label: Prevent label rule from crashing on input without type #678 (#730) (4498680)
• perf: improve select performance fixes #702 (3274919)
• perf: memoize axe.utils.select (c9cd122)
• perf: normalize all selectors for better cache utilization (189c165)
• perf: remove need for node sorting from select completely (7677a6a)
• performance: significantly improve the performance of the dom.findUp utility fixes #696 (9197e03)
• add shadow dom coverage to all checks (0e48413), closes #690
• bug-705: cleanupPlugins() should not throw exception when no arguments are provided (#709) (fb1d2f7)
• Remove axe.a11yCheck() (88d039f)
• use virtual methods where applicable (6ddc4e5)
• type-checking: Improve typescript axe.run call signature (#707) (de45ee3)

Performance Improvements

• Add performance metrics in Rule.runChecks (#701) (27fdc2f)

3.0.0-alpha.9 (2018-01-18)

Bug Fixes

• aria-errormessage: adds support for aria-errormessage (#517) (c96f58c)
• check: fix bug with async checks (441ca95)
• color-contrast: allow disabled label children (db26bc9)
• color-contrast: incl. elements w/ line breaks (a464918)
• commons/aria: allow aria-required on checkbox role (3e21c6e)
• adjust color algorithm for inline elements (7f8491e)
• Allow checkbox and radio groups with hidden aria-labelledby targets #188 (6149bde)
• Ensure overloaded Array.prototype won't crash axe (ea57ef2)
• handle contrast of multiline inline el's (f9d565f)
• Polyfills are made non-enumerable #648. (#649) (48d8703)
• Remove href-no-hash rule (342cb6e)
• Return inapplicable results (#473). (c9caeff)
• Several of fixes for IE and Edge (#577) (63e1272)
• skip-link rule now checks if a target exists (f7f9cf3)
• commons/aria: allow aria-required on radio role (58b76a6)
• commons/dom: fix isFocusable functions by checking screenreader (#658) (c665d0b), closes #647
• core/utils/querySelectorAll: Ensure that elements do not get tested twice (#666) (a76a454)
• required-children: add combobox > listbox exception (#559) (8d0991f)
• rules/region: Treat <section> as a landmark if it has an accessible name #640 (#642) (c11b442)

Features

• Add rule, landmark-main-is-top-level (#462) (63040bd)
• collect-results-from-frames: add frameWaitTime option (#661) (8016ad1)
• landmark-one-main: add rule ensuring one main landmark in document (#498) (dfc6069)
• reporter: return one result of each type instead of zero when resultTypes is used (#604) (216a83b), closes #603
• rule: Flag div/p/spans/headings in focus order (ce5f3dc), closes #632
• allow options in aria-allowed-attr, aria-required-attr (#673) (61ac303)
• Enable all rules by default (18263eb)
• Improve generated selectors for namespaced elements in XHTML (#582) (9e3ca45), closes #563

BREAKING CHANGES

• Skip-link rule no longer requires skip lins with a focusable target.

3.0.0-alpha.8 (2017-10-20)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-attr: align rowcount, colcount, and colindex with 1.1 spec (#555) (10efa88)
• required-children: add combobox > listbox exception (#559) (8d0991f)
• Added message about expected contrast ratio (#381) (#562) (9e30d64)

3.0.0-alpha.7 (2017-10-20)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-attr: align rowcount, colcount, and colindex with 1.1 spec (#555) (10efa88)
• required-children: add combobox > listbox exception (#559) (8d0991f)
• Added message about expected contrast ratio (#381) (#562) (9e30d64)

Performance Improvements

• reporter: add option to limit result types to be processed (#568) (42b46d9), closes #512

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

3.0.0-alpha.6 (2017-09-27)

Bug Fixes

• aria: adding support for aria-expanded in menuitem (#521) (b30b451)
• color-contrast: Include THEAD and TBODY in contrast checks (#514) (f98f8bd)
• Match prerelease versions for helpUrl (#546) (5300577)
• helpUrl: Properly parse x.0 versions (#550) (a51c5ce)
• postinstall: use node, more conditionals (#520) (f5b5299)
• responsible: Restrict error construction to known errors (0128a7e)

3.0.0-alpha.5 (2017-09-25)

Bug Fixes

• aria: adding support for aria-expanded in menuitem (#521) (b30b451)
• postinstall: use node, more conditionals (#520) (f5b5299)
• Match prerelease versions for helpUrl (#546) (5300577)

3.0.0-alpha.4 (2017-09-08)

Bug fixes:

• fix(color-contrast): Include THEAD and TBODY in contrast checks (#514) (f98f8bd)
• fix(responsible): Restrict error construction to known errors (#513) (0128a7e)

Features:

• docs: Document how to propose axe-core rules (#507) (cabd329)

3.0.0-alpha.3 (2017-09-06)

Bug fixes:

• Additional ARIA 1.1. support and tests (#509) (9b4d2ee)
• fix: RestoreScroll was running out of sync (#508) (ff3df2d)

3.0.0-alpha.2 (2017-09-01)

Bug Fixes

• copy precommit hook as file, not a link (16f2f76)
• expand tr support for color contrast (5a77c2f)
• Ignore shadowRoots on elements that don't allow them (7f66ee8)
• only run postinstall if .git exists (1107783)
• try telling circle to skip .git/hooks (674408f)
• Use frame query that supports shadow dom (#492) (94008ff)

Features

• feat: Add sri-history file and update process (25ddb47)
• feat: add standard-version (e1e067d)

3.0.0-alpha.1 (2017-08-16)

Bug Fixes

• add copyright banner back in to axe.js (2aac29a)
• Adjust if formatting (2211d78)
• Align impact levels with Deque Way (28f4477)
• Allow to have no kind attribute (f996d0f)
• complete shadow support for color matches (f0fe551)
• aria: Allow implicit attribute values (b949749)
• Set relatedNodes on color/link-in-block rules (#407) (7fde0fe)
• aria: Treegrid should own rows, not treeitems (645d1fa)
• Correct flattened tree algorithm to include the shadow host (#405) (70985b0)
• Ensure all tests pass in Chrome (0b0240f)
• ensure document is fetched from correct node (b28597c)
• Exclude any checks from output if one passed (#466) (2dd3d68)
• get tests all passing (#457) (4874327)
• get virtualNode with getNodeFromTree (9bf2870)
• getComposedParent should not return slot nodes (#438) (0478cbd)
• Have table rules use shadow DOM (453be1b)
• help-same-as-label for shadow DOM (dbbc544)
• incomplete results should have impact (fcc51eb)
• Let findUp work on shadow root children (0252218)
• Let findUp work on shadow root children (#447) (0f98481)
• Minimise scrolling in getBackgroundColor (f4551bb)
• Pass all tests that use accessibleText (7ea8d6b)
• checks/aria/required-children: add exception for native input combobox missing textbox (81ee2e4)
• use virtualNode in duplicate-img-label (82e51bc)
• is-in-text-block: Add Shadow DOM support (a125f79)
• pass virtualNode to Rule.run (4534e86)
• Properly output error stack (56f1867)
• Remove log statements (6a6bd73)
• Solve a few tests (02daad1)
• Use getAttribute(id) over .id (#374) (353b53f)
• Use testUtils in table tests (364d5cd)
• use virtualNode in title-only check (5fb06e3)
• whitespace in hidden-content test (99e8b73)

Features

• Add aria-orientation to additional roles (bb07c2d)
• add check testUtils (6f53279)
• Add dom.getComposedParent function (aac57c0)
• Add Japanese localisation (5f8c9c8)
• Add new ARIA 1.1 values for haspopup (9f7da56)
• Add option restoreScroll (d55f3cd)
• add S.C. 2.4.4 to link-name rule. Fixes #369 (70728e6)
• add SD support to color-contrast-matches (b595b42)
• Add shadow DOM support to list checks (#439) (d92c1a1)
• Add shadow DOM to duplicate-img-label check (#443) (2c0b075)
• Add shadow DOM to landmark check (98f6023)
• add shadow support to aria-required-children (f729e25)
• add shadow support to group-labelledby (e2a9642)
• Add sri-history file and update process (#476) (25ddb47)
• Allow hidden-content to work through shadow DOM bounds (789d62e)
• fieldset check shadow DOM (da148d3)
• Make explicit check consider shadow DOM (#442) (9ddfc0f)
• Make region check work with shadow DOM (ecd222f)
• Run text.accessibleText() on virtual elements (#420) (414fcbe)
• ShadowDOM support for media checks (0f21574)
• aria: Support progressive ARIA 1.1 attributes / roles (#468) (ebb2a5d)
• aria-required-parent: add Shadow DOM support (6ed29f0)
• duplicate-id: Add shadow DOM support (439bc71)
• link-in-text-block: Add shadow DOM support (46a2cca)
• shadow DOM: Create commons virtual methods, for backward compatibility (86a4c25)

2.4.2 (2017-09-25)

Bug Fixes

• aria: adding support for aria-expanded in menuitem (#521) (b4c42fe)
• Match prerelease versions for helpUrl (#546) (c166708)
• fix(node4): use var to declare variables (#541) (c72badb)

2.4.1 (2017-09-12)

Bug Fixes

• fix(postinstall): use node, more conditionals (#520) (98fac8a)

2.4.0 (2017-09-08)

Bug fixes:

• fix(color-contrast): Include THEAD and TBODY in contrast checks (#514) (f98f8bd)
• fix(responsible): Restrict error construction to known errors (#513) (0128a7e)

Features:

• docs: Document how to propose axe-core rules (#507) (cabd329)

2.4.0-alpha.2 (2017-09-06)

Bug fixes:

• test(aria): aria-haspopup, aria-modal for 1.1
• style(test/aria): add line breaks for readability
• test(aria): add missing roles and properties
• fix: RestoreScroll was running out of sync (#508)

Features:

• feat(ARIA 1.1): Allow row-index, setsize and posinset on more roles

2.4.0-alpha.1 (2017-08-31)

Bug fixes:

• chore: add help text for testconfig Grunt task
• fix: Properly output error stack
• doc: Add 'on mobile' to viewport rule
• fix: Ensure all tests pass in Chrome
• fix: Minimise scrolling in getBackgroundColor
• chore: Minor build chores for whitespace and lockfile
• fix: Align impact levels with Deque Way
• fix: Set relatedNodes on color/link-in-block rules
• fix: incomplete results should have impact
• fix(aria): Allow implicit attribute values
• chore: ignore growl in retire
• fix: Use getAttribute(id) over .id
• fix: Exclude any checks from output if one passed
• fix(aria): Treegrid should own rows, not treeitems
• fix(aria): add exception for native input combobox missing textbox. Fixes #160
• test: fix aria/required-children for jshint
• feat: allow link text from single-cell layout table
• fix: expand tr support for color contrast
• chore: ignore node_modules in examples when linting

Features:

• feat: Add option restoreScroll
• doc: add more info on testing hidden regions
• feat: add S.C. 2.4.4 to link-name rule. Fixes #369
• feat: Add Japanese localisation
• doc: Add instructions on debugging on CircleCI
• test: add unit tests for button-has-visible-text
• chore: add descriptions to Grunt tasks
• feat(aria): Support progressive ARIA 1.1 attributes / roles
• feat: Add new ARIA 1.1 values for haspopup
• feat: Add aria-orientation to additional roles

2.3.1 (2017-06-15)

Bug fixes:

• Improvements to hidden-content rule
• Deduplicated langs in valid-lang options

2.3.0 (2017-06-14)

Bug fixes:

• Overhaul of selectors API
• New experimental rule for hidden-content
• New rule for flagging aria-hidden="true" on document.body
• Color-contrast rule impact is now serious
• Color-contrast fixes for implicit labels and TR elements
• Color-contrast puts 1:1 ratio elements into Needs Review/incomplete
• List category mappings in docs
• Update axe.source to work with Firefox webdriver

2.2.3 (2017-06-01)

Bug fixes:

• Removed the disable property from link-in-text-block

2.2.2 (2017-05-25)

Bug fixes

• Stabilize incompleteData API for backwards compatibility
• Change impact of duplicate-id rule to moderate

2.2.1 (2017-05-19)

Bug fixes

• Remove nodes from the color contrast incompleteData API to avoid circular references

2.2.0 (2017-04-24)

Changes

• Add configuration options for iframes: false, selectors: false, and elementRef: true
• Improve color-contrast rule for disabled elements
• Add webdriver task for testing mobile viewports
• Improve audio/video captioning rules
• Improve th-has-data-cells rule
• Expose incomplete reasons for color contrast rule as part of Needs Review
• Implement rule groupings as tags
• Allow building of axe in multiple languages
• Empty-heading rule has impact: moderate

2.1.8 (2017-05-21)

Changes

• Move from Snyk to Retire.js
• Make CI run test-fast task instead of parallel
• Add documentation on writing integration tests and rules
• Allow a larger list of languages for HTML-valid-lang rule
• Add support for [role=img] in image-alt rule
• Fix bug with innerHeight in get-background-color
• Improve dom.is-offscreen function
• Integrate optional performance timer
• Empty include defaults to document

2.1.7 (2016-12-13)

Changes

• Add promise-based axe.run API method in favor of axe.a11yCheck
• Move TypeScript definition to root of project
• Add Inapplicable and Can't Tell results
• New rule: frame-title-unique
• Improvements to table rules: td-has-header, th-has-data-cells
• Color contrast rule performance improvements using polyfilled elementsFromPoint
• Add better support for implicit roles
• DQElement supports xPath

2.0.7 (2016-09-28)

Changes

• Add TypeScript definition v1

2.0.5 (2016-04-20)

Changes

• Support for UMD pattern
• Adds 508 tagging for table rules
• Fixes race condition for iframes
• Exclude actual nodes from array checking

2.0.5 (2016-04-13)

Changes

• Improvements to messaging for extensions

2.0.3 (2016-04-12)

Changes

• Security improvements
• Build includes Babel/ES6
• Improvements to table rules
• aXe can be loaded in Node

2.0.0 (2016-03-01)

Changes

• Adds support for AMD modules
• Fixes incompatibility with Webpack
• Improvements to rules and checks
• Help urls no longer hard-coded
• Improved error handling

1.1.1 (2015-09-04)

Changes

• Adds Travis hooks
• Adds Sauce Labs
• Encodes HTML in descriptions
• Updates messages and help URLs

1.0.1 (2015-06-10)

Changes

• Initial public release