CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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

4.0.1 (2020-08-04)

Bug Fixes

• checks: do not normalize options for custom checks (#2435) (83056ad)

4.0.0 (2020-07-28)

Breaking Changes

The following rules were deprecated in axe-core 3.x, and are removed in 4.0:

• aria-dpub-role-fallback
• checkboxgroup
• layout-table
• radiogroup
• video-description

The following checks were deprecated in axe-core 3.x, and are removed in 4.0:

• aria/implicit-role-fallback
• forms/fieldset
• forms/group-labelledby
• media/description
• tables/has-caption
• tables/has-summary
• tables/has-th

Features

• add layout-table-matches method (#2400) (d7ba70f)
• aria/get-roles-by-type: deprecate in favor of standards/get-aria-roles-by-type (#2362) (c0c37ea)
• aria/lookupTable, aria-allowed-attr: deprecate aria.lookupTable and passing allowed attributes to aria-allowed-attr (#2395) (739d1b1)
• avoid-inline-spacing: add option for which css properties to look at (#2244) (93c027a)
• checks: normalize check options to alway be an object (#2219) (da12da7)
• checks,rules: remove deprecated checks and rules (#2214) (317545a)
• closest: VirtualNode implementation of Element.closest. Deprecate commons.dom.findUp and commons.dom.findUpVirtual (#2139) (493dd22)
• color-contrast, utils: add more options to color-contrast, add utils.deepMerge, deprecate commons.color.hasValidContrastRatio (#2256) (49fdb46)
• commons/aria: deprecate getRole({ noImplicit }) for getExplicitRole() (#2294) (a2873ea)
• commons/standards: create the commons/standards object for helper functions against the standards table (#2358) (6dce974)
• duplicate-img-label: add option for parentSelector (#2216) (8906806)
• get-role: add presentation role resolution and inheritance (#2281) (e207190)
• get-role: work with standards object (#2367) (1b20faf)
• globals: deduce required window and document globals from context (#2308) (61bac69)
• has-descendant, page-no-duplicate: move page-has-elm and page-no-duplicate to generic check (#2229) (59125a0)
• has-lang: add option for which attributes to look at (#2239) (e69c46a)
• has-text-content: add generic check has-text-content (#2234) (60ddc65)
• i18n: add Basque (eu) translation (#1964) (176cf82)
• matcher: allow regex string to be parsed as regex (#2324) (321b2d1)
• matches: add explicitRole, implicitRole, and semanticRole matches functions (#2286) (30efbff)
• matches-definition: add generic check matches-definition (#2233) (20467aa)
• metadata-function-map: add metadata function map to support check evaulate functions as an id string (#2162) (ec9b931)
• non-space-content: switch all non-empty checks to new generic check (#2215) (7ce7b00)
• object-alt,accessible-text: object-alt rule and accessible text to work with serial virtual nodes with children (e8e17e4)
• options: add ancestry CSS selector to nodes (#2389) (f2cccf5)
• region: add option to match nodes as region (#2249) (b544554)
• required-attrs: deprecate options to pass more required attrs (797ee34)
• rule: add reviewOnFail option to have rule return as needs review instead of violation (#2235) (bb72acd)
• rule: optional impact on rules (#2393) (e48c1eb)
• scope-value: add options for valid scope values (#2245) (44269ec)
• standards: add ariaRoles standard (#2328) (70efbc0)
• standards: add dpub-roles spec (#2332) (7ec3185)
• standards: add get-aria-roles-supporting-name-from-content and deprecate aria/get-roles-with-name-from-content (#2363) (240b528)
• standards: add get-elements-by-content-type and implicit-html-roles (#2375) (f1e0848)
• add "ACT" tag for published W3C ACT rules (#2382) (cf11b64)
• standards: add html-elms spec (#2333) (1d6a888)
• standards: create standards object and ariaAttrs (#2315) (48610de)
• utils.getFlattenTree: default to documentElement (#2260) (8b14ccc)
• valid-lang: add option for which attributes to look at (#2240) (ffee19e)
• update SC tags for label rule (#2037) (c7113fc)

Bug Fixes

• accessible-name-virtual: allow subtree text to work with virtual and serial nodes (#2346) (67d2dca)
• api: correct use of rules property in axe.run (#2278) (1fd9e11)
• aria-allowed-attr: Add aria-orientation to radiogroup role (#2322) (5e1f922)
• aria-allowed-attr: allow aria-activedescendant on role=application (#2304) (2554f5c)
• aria-allowed-role: Add fieldset to allowed elements for radiogroup (#2326) (a5409d4)
• aria-allowed-role: allow role=presentation on hr (#2300) (b524ea9)
• aria-lablledby: work with virtual and serial virtual nodes (#2341) (c1f3db7)
• aria-toggle-field-name: work with virtual nodes (#2353) (e5fb01e)
• aria/allowed-attr: work with standards object (#2360) (40397f5)
• aria/get-role-type: work with standards object (#2361) (a61e314)
• autocomplete: allow all 'tel-*' autocomplete values on type=tel (#2307) (58c8175)
• button-name: work with serial virtual node (#2351) (efa0e56)
• bypass: find headings in iframes (#2310) (7c23dbd)
• color: allow all valid CSS colors (#2381) (63d69ea)
• color-contrast: account for text-shadow (#2334) (3eb6d2c)
• color-contrast: ignore aria-disabled labels (#2130) (e451b87)
• color-contrast: properly handle truncated text (#2302) (a56190c)
• dlitem: allow role=presentation on parent dl (#2301) (9857978)
• focusable-no-name: work with serial virtual nodes (#2399) (1ef3066)
• forms/*: allow all form control value checks to work with virtual nodes (#2343) (8ad41af)
• header-present: fail for headings with non-header role (#2306) (b8ffb39)
• html-namespace-matches: work with serial virtual nodes (#2398) (18c22fd)
• implicit-roles: add proper implicit role calculation (#2242) (e9dd259)
• input-button-name: work with virtual nodes (#2352) (63ca388)
• is-valid-autocomplete: allow autocomplete="one-time-code" (#2336) (638346f)
• label: work with virtual nodes (#2354) (44b033c)
• page-has-h1: allow aria-level=1 on native headings (#2349) (70b10b2)
• rule: allow impact to be configured (#2426) (f325c75)
• rule,check: allow function ids for matches property in rule.configure (#2423) (3ccb781)
• run: cleanup globals if set from context (#2387) (d5b6931)
• svg-image-alt: work with serial virtual nodes (#2397) (e2537ef)
• types: Allow impact to be null (#2321) (757aacd), closes #2313
• types: Make any tag allowed (#2314) (5d98a04), closes #2312
• typings: update types file (#2425) (0aab922)
• virtual-node: default and lowercase type property (#2350) (f6b3484)
• ensure correctly generated axe is required by aria-supported build step (#2295) (1414a9f)
• aria-required-attr: pass aria-checked for elements with checked property (#2226) (64318a5)
• axe.d.ts: add element to NodeResults (#2211) (2429355)
• color-contrast: mark more punctutions for review (#2126) (dc98afc)
• duplicate-id: list the duplicate id in message (#2163) (f5d4ff9)
• required-children: consider overriding descendant role(s)… (#2131) (e1c11dd)
• scrollable-region-focusable: pass for elements with contenteditable (#2133) (1012dfe)
• th-has-data-cells: fail when only cell points to different header (2d420c3)
• types: Add "wcag21aa" and "wcag21a" to our TS definition (#2272) (23674d4)
• types: Add missing properties to Spec (#2273) (c39ba9f)

3.5.5 (2020-06-16)

Bug Fixes

• aria-input-field-name: add the missing word must to help metadata (b0f5562)
• color-contrast: fix font-weight calculation for safari (205b587)
• configure: validate rules and checks properties (8c91ead)
• is-visible: return false for opacity: 0 and 0 height scrollable regions (86ada3f)
• listitem: do not fail for parent with role=presentation|none (a3ddc6e)
• meta-viewport: don't throw error if viewport property doesn't have a value (2176794)

3.5.4 (2020-05-22)

Bug Fixes

• get-element-stack: properly calculate position of children of floated elements (28a8c58)

3.5.3 (2020-03-31)

Bug Fixes

• meta-viewport: parse negative and string values for maximum-scale (#2137) (8c92472)
• respondable: ignore reflected messages from iframes (#2134) (3ab9f21)
• header-present: update verbiage to use heading instead of header (#2132) (8890063)
• color-contrast: mark more punctuations for review (#2126) (dc98afc)
• unicode: detect supplementary private use area A (#2102) (f1739c2)
• definition-list: Mention
  is allowed to group content in

  (#2098) (76b1a9f)

• td-headers-attr: mark as needs review if headers attr is empty (#2096) (699b566)
• td-has-headers: don't fail for empty headers attribute (#2095) (7952a37)
• th-has-data-cells: fail when data cell points to a different header (#2094) (d3bd416)
• has-lang: update message to indicate that xml:lang is not valid on HTML pages (#2093) (c3a7de2)
• page-no-duplicate-contentinfo: do not fail when first element is inside landmark (#2092) (eca7e05)

3.5.2 (2020-03-06)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-role: allow role=spinbutton on inputtype=tel
• color-contrast: ignore form elements that move text outside of node using text-indent (#2044) (85cc6ab)
• commons: handle node(s) contained by SVG document when de… (#2054) (bf4c9bf)
• getCheckMessage: add API to return check message (#2066) (e216322)
• has-lang: fail check when xml:lang is used in HTML docum… (#2053) (e07aaea)
• label-content-name-mismatch: ignore non widget aria role(s) & do not use deprecated lookupTable.rolesOfType (#2022) (89bd84c)
• package-lock: change @deque/doT from agora to npm (#2058) (c03c0e5)
• page-has-heading-one: find screen-reader only headings (#2065) (f808a12)
• region: ignore direct child text nodes of body (#2050) (fde31d0)
• skip-link: identify as skip-link only if the link is offscreen (#2079) (241e1d0)
• check invaildrole fails only when all roles are invalid (#2075) (989b317)
• ignore empty, whitespace or undefined role for rule `ari… (#2077) (dbd3c02)
• update tags for rule area-alt (#2051) (7db231f)

3.5.1 (2020-02-12)

Bug Fixes

• color-contrast: parse font-weight value as number (#2031) (#2040) (0bb2166)
• color-contrast: properly pass options to check (#2033) (26b99c0)
• commons: avoid unicode regex encoding in axe.min.js (#2024) (ae90dc4)
• sri-history: correct SRI for various versions (#2041) (940c017)

3.5.0 (2020-02-04)

Features

• aria-dpub-role-fallback: depreacte aria-dpub-role-fallback and move into aria-allowed-role (#1899) (8e25c20)
• aria-label: deprecate Element arg; use virtualNode (#1922) (d14981c)
• audit: allow runOnly option to accept an array of rules (#1889) (38d6a3f)
• color-contrast: greatly improve performance for very large sites (#1943) (9ea0065)
• core: add preload configuration option for media files (#1958) (8a62649)
• core/reporters/v1: Add failureSummary to incomplete results (#1972) (c88883d)
• get-element-stack: performant api to replace document.elementsFromPoint (#1842) (9ae07fb)
• i18n: add Danish (da-DK) translation (#1876) (fb6fc41)
• landmark-no-duplicate-*: add rule landmark-no-duplicate-main, don't use html as element source for all duplicate rules (#1949) (5ec7894)
• layout-table: deprecate layout-table rule and checks (#1885) (d22cb30)
• matches: use VirtualNode and deprecate HTMLElement (#1988) (2600a06)
• rule: add color-contrast check for unicode characters, behind flags. (#1969) (0cd4037), closes #1906
• rule: identical-links-same-purpose (#1649) (9c73f62)
• rule: no-autoplay-audio (#1946) (b2373cb)
• svg-img-alt: rule for when svg needs a title (#1953) (9491e09)
• deprecate the use doT.js for messages (#1938) (a2ddba3)

Bug Fixes

• color-contrast: properly pass options to check (#2033) (26b99c0)
• commons: avoid unicode regex encoding in axe.min.js (#2024) (ae90dc4)
• add tags with dots for wcag sc (#1849) (2f1ab36)
• compute orientation lock from various transformation func… (#1937) (c987de0)
• ignores axe.ping responses that do not contain axe=true (26cb1fb)
• input[role=button][value='correct'] should pass (#1897) (4635fef)
• remove heading from list of widget roles (#1882) (a8cbf71)
• link-name: test role=link when there is no href (#1921) (6db28bc)
• remove isNaN check (#2010) (5359b3f)
• aria-allowed-attr: allow aria-details (#1956) (79e1c58)
• aria-allowed-role: allow role combobox on input tel, search, url, and email (#1850) (ba75961)
• aria-hidden-focus: mark as needs review if a modal is open (#1995) (28a3553)
• aria-required-children: allow comboboxes with more popup roles (#1950) (35a24c0)
• aria-roles: report error for fallback roles (#1970) (a1b7e08)
• aria-valid-attr-value: mark as needs review for aria-current with invalid value (#1998) (39b8eae)
• axe.d.ts: RunOnly.values should not accept a RunOnlyOption (#1888) (b68aa19)
• build: add lang query parameter to helpUrl when builing with a locale (#1909) (8c5f9ef)
• color-contrast: improve speed and accuracy of code blocks with syntax highlighting (#2003) (1b6ab42)
• color-contrast: mark as needs review for text that contains only non-BMP characters (#2005) (e559be0)
• color-contrast: support IE extension context (#2008) (62e31ea)
• color-contrast: take into account parent opacity for foreground color (#1902) (8719700)
• getElementStack: do not add hidden elements to the stack (#1991) (759d88d)
• is-focusable: use tabindex attribute instead of property (#1912) (042a148)
• is-icon-ligature: ignore whitespace characters (#1908) (7d2b2a6)
• is-ligature-icon: rename canvas to canvasContext (#1880) (de9885d)
• isFocusable: return true for summary element and false for details element with summary child (#1957) (34ec2d7)
• listitem: clarify that li elements must be contained in a list or role=list (#1894) (6d8cfee)
• locales: fix incompeteMessageFallback to be a string rather than an object (#1853) (88677a9)
• meta-viewport: mark as a best-practice rule instead of wcag failure (#1960) (766f962)
• only-listitem: add message about invalid role on li elements (#1954) (c3049ab)
• page-has-main: do not find hidden elements (#2001) (6429e60)
• page-no-duplicate-main: do not fail for duplicate hidden elements (#2000) (414dfb1)
• preload: reject promise axe.utils.preload when XHR fails (#2009) (b406b1f)
• region: allow content in roles with implicit aria-live (#2002) (a8d829e)
• region: return outermost regionless node instead of html (#1980) (8d77be2)
• region-rule: allow live regions with explicit roles (#1999) (b49bd95)
• run: throw error if axe.run is called after a run has started but not completed (#1914) (3252a02)
• server-side-image-map: return as needs review rather than failure (#1898) (d544856)
• tabindex: don't error when tabindex property is overridden (#1910) (6b82a4c)
• td-has-headers: greatly improve performance of td-has-headers rule (#1887) (a550309)
• removes flaky test in axe Pro api check (b2bdcd1)
• typings: add proper return value to getRule (#1900) (4d907f8)
• unicode: stop parsing escaped unicode strings (#1997) (7447d03)

3.4.2 (2020-02-04)

Bug Fixes

• color-contrast: support IE extension context (#2008) (cd651a0)
• unicode: stop parsing escaped unicode strings (#1997) (523a31c)

3.4.1 (2019-12-11)

Bug Fixes

• ignores axe.ping responses that do not contain axe=true (7d8aa42)
• input[role=button][value='correct'] should pass (#1897) (3aba02c)
• remove heading from list of widget roles (#1882) (beb458f)
• listitem: clarify that li elements must be contained in a list or role=list (#1894) (8fa0964)
• removes flaky test in axe Pro api check (f2b3b54)
• aria-allowed-role: allow role combobox on input tel, search, url, and email (#1850) (75d3c8b)
• axe.d.ts: RunOnly.values should not accept a RunOnlyOption (#1888) (94b1466)
• build: add lang query parameter to helpUrl when builing with a locale (#1909) (a2f0247)
• color-contrast: take into account parent opacity for foreground color (#1902) (639c41b)
• is-focusable: use tabindex attribute instead of property (#1912) (aa5314d)
• is-icon-ligature: ignore whitespace characters (#1908) (77fc838)
• is-ligature-icon: rename canvas to canvasContext (#1880) (604ba4f)
• link-name: test role=link when there is no href (#1921) (e839c57)
• locales: fix incompeteMessageFallback to be a string rather than an object (#1853) (02a1d8a)
• run: throw error if axe.run is called after a run has started but not completed (#1914) (290d125)
• server-side-image-map: return as needs review rather than failure (#1898) (ce73af9)
• tabindex: don't error when tabindex property is overridden (#1910) (e6875ee)
• td-has-headers: greatly improve performance of td-has-headers rule (#1887) (a588cad)
• typings: add proper return value to getRule (#1900) (0d7c3d2)

3.4.0 (2019-10-18)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-attr: allow 'aria-readonly' on listbox (#1825) (15f5d2d)
• aria-form-field-name-matches: don't test combobox elements when they have a child input (#1742) (f0be6dc)
• aria-required-children: allow combobox to own a searchbox (#1708) (42158ac)
• aria-required-children: allow reviewEmpty nodes to have empty children (#1791) (a5d727c)
• aria-valid-attr-value: fix incomplete translation message (#1739) (a0f3eef)
• color-contrast: ignore nodes that don't contain text (#1837) (223a4bc)
• color-contrast-matches: don't check aria-disabled explicit label element (#1741) (5bb566f)
• configure: use translations for failure summaries (#1808) (5e53d7b)
• flatten-tree: do not call deprecated getDistributedNodes (#1729) (46a5d11)
• form-field-multiple-label: incomplete rather than fail for multiple labels (#1798) (0bdaa2b)
• get-background-color: scroll element into view horizontally (#1845) (50df70a)
• get-selector: don't throw error for disconnected fragment (#1802) (bb6591b)
• label-content-name-mismatch: ignore ligature fonts (#1829) (683e005)
• allows all roles on img tag with no alt attribute (929085a)
• replace incorrect tag for meta-refresh rule (#1844) (754d56b)
• update tags to wcag21aa for rule avoid-inline-spacing (#1757) (973d48f)
• label-content-name-mismatch: ignore private space unicode (#1822) (b634c34)
• scrollable-region-focus: ignore scrollable regions without content (#1788) (b36754e)
• utils: Fix error in IE when getting scroll state on page with SVG elements. Closes #525 (#1820) (9a32f6f)

Features

• audit: add lang query paramenter to help urls (#1794) (2d1c8a6)
• configure: accept ver property as axeVersion fallback (#1812) (4ebcde8)
• configure: add axeVersion property that checks compatibility of axe.version (#1793) (18fb8c8)
• fieldset, group-labelledby: deprecate fieldset and group-labelledby checks (#1740) (ec9b762)
• i18n: add spanish translation (#1758) (e9f821d), closes #1757
• Add axe.utils.assert method (2f10d24)
• is-visible: add support for clip-path techniques (#1706) (8ab262a)
• radiogroup, checkboxgroup: deprecate radiogroup and checkboxgroup rules (#1640) (6d30880)
• Add SerialVirtualNode class (82d01b0)
• pt_BR localization (#1756) (330e2ec)
• rule: aria-roledescription (#1745) (16682fd)
• runVirtualNode: Allow serialised nodes experimental
• video-description: deprecate video-description rule (#1737) (e91c25f)

3.3.3 (2020-02-04)

Bug Fixes

• color-contrast: support IE extension context (#2008) (cd651a0)
• unicode: stop parsing escaped unicode strings (#1997) (523a31c)

3.3.2 (2019-08-12)

Bug Fixes

• aria-form-field-name-matches: don't test combobox elements when they have a child input (#1742) (5ac278f)
• aria-valid-attr-value: fix incomplete translation message (#1739) (6909604)
• flatten-tree: do not call deprecated getDistributedNodes (#1729) (48ddf9d)
• update tags to wcag21aa for rule avoid-inline-spacing (#1757) (f534a6b)

3.3.1 (2019-07-23)

Bug Fixes

• accessible-text-virtual: sanitize attributes on start node (#1694) (c0bb08c)
• axe.d.ts: add optional xpath property to NodeResult (#1642) (287ef9c)
• get-background-color: No longer calculate color from non-opaque overlapping element (#1644) (d45f81e)
• get-background-color: No longer calculate color from non-opaque overlapping elm (f1c2310)
• get-background-color: process tbody, thead, and tfoot when getting background color (#1653) (e114bfd)
• enable running axe-core in strict CSPs (#1707) (cc5bd59)
• image-redundant-alt: check for parent before calculating text (#1705) (1adbd02)
• th-has-data-cells: empty cells will now pass (#1659) (c7489ab)
• types: add new properties to RunOptions (#1697) (02aa36c), closes #1696
• valid-attr-value: allow aria-describedby to return needs review (#1671) (2390925)
• color-contrast: add px unit to error messages (#1634) (1712e46)

Tests

• examples: do not fail tests if deque.com has violations (#1686) (2118360)
• ensure locale files are valid (#1673) (588f9b5)
• require new release rule help docs to be active before creating release (#1700) (e9f9c18)

3.3.0 (2019-07-08)

Bug Fixes

• add SC 131 to rule aria hidden focus (#1474) (8da9a0d)
• Add treegrid as allowed parent to rowgroup (#1435) (94e9893), closes #1386
• arguments for gather function in build template (#1605) (753ecf4)
• check if property exists in cache of flattenedTree (#1536) (51c2e19)
• aria-valid-attr-value: allow aria-owns to pass when element is not in the DOM (#1526) (f835ed8)
• deprecate na reporter (#1625) (3e807f0)
• Exclude iframe for html-has-lang rule (Issue 1424) (#1430) (98b5ed2)
• Include body as part of background color checks when element does not intersect (#1520) (55820cf)
• make nullable impact properties have nullable types to match API docs (#1477) (efaed91)
• Only load Promise polyfill if window.Promise is missing [#1468](<#1470>) (1d70306)
• Prevent error when using <select name="attributes"> [#1397](<#1432>) (b477e0d)
• remove unnecessary comments (6ed71c9)
• role=radio should not require aria-checked (#1448) (0643cbd)
• Scroll state had top and left properties flipped (#1469) (2ba83d3)
• skip-link,region: Allow multiple skiplinks at page top (#1496) (642c8f1)
• use execa instead of child_process.spawn (461ce83)
• aria-allowed-attr: allow figure role (#1558) (a4b5240)
• aria-required-attr: allow aria-valuenow to pass on elements with value (#1579) (3893e04)
• aria-required-attr: don't require aria-valuemin/max (#1529) (80ae444)
• aria-valid-attr-value: allow aria-controls to pass when element is not in the DOM (a7842e5)
• flatten-tree: do not call deprecated getDistributedNodes (#1577) (93d59f4)
• image-redundant-alt: prevent redundant issues of image tree (#1616) (af81897)
• isSkipLink: cache first page link (#1525) (6a1bcba)
• matches-selector: don't call matches function if none exist on the element (#1613) (7581592)
• multiple-label: considers explicit labels in the same shadow tree (#1584) (b9a324a)
• multiple-label: no longer raises issue when aria-labelledby overrides how AT views multiple labels (#1538) (fbae36b)
• prettier: ignore generated api doc files (#1522) (c118da0)
• raw-reporter: do not output DqElements (#1513) (3babcb6)
• scrollable-region-focusable: exclude overflow:hidden as not scrollable (#1599) (940de07)
• utils: make cache global instead of only setup in axe.run (#1535) (91a04c5)
• virtual-node: fix hasClass to work with svg elements (#1603) (9d83662)

Features

• autocomplete-matches: use virtualNode only lookups (#1604) (b32d4fe)
• autocomplete-valid: allow autocomplete-valid to be run entirely off of a virtual node (#1591) (b3e0873)
• qsa, flatten-tree: abstract Node and Element apis in virtual tree (#1562) (2f2e590)
• reporter: adds the rawEnv reporter which wraps raw and env data (#1556) (ed15ed3)
• role-img-alt: Split rule for role=img with no accessible name (#1586) (2416ed3)
• rule: add additional elements to check for incomplete with required children (#1547) (3726901)
• rule: add more perf timing metrics to rules (#1472) (98646e5)
• rule,check: add new apis to run a rule synchronously (#1467) (84094a1)
• add AbstractVirtualNode for linting (#1627) (a072ed2)
• rule: Adding landmark-is-unique rule (#1394) (0088e94)
• rule: Inline text spacing must be adjustable with custom stylesheets (#1446) (430b07f)
• Improve perf of axe.run WWD-1821 (a84431a)
• rule: New aria-input-field-label rule (#1610) (73d5273)
• rule: New aria-toggle-field-label rule (#1450) (69a9c3b)
• rule: Scrollable region focusable (#1396) (861371a)
• rules: split button name rule into button only and button input rules (#1615) (ce20fbf)
• run-virtual-rule: new api to run rules using only virtual nodes (#1594) (4e12217)
• utils: add support for complex CSS selectors (#1494) (a9f9ee5), closes #1493
• utils: Update CSSOM for nested @import computation (#1339) (a4e177b)

Tests

• createHTMLDocument needs mandatory title when invoked in IE (#1442) (8542773)
• disable es6 syntax usage within tests directory (#1569) (9b13508)
• fix flakey test (#1573) (fb38ce7)
• Fix invalid test html (#1502) (8d85082)
• fix test for Safari (#1557) (1bac69e)
• fix tests failing in IE11 (#1570) (2102eca)
• only run IE11 tests in appveyor (#1571) (35261ef)
• watch integration html and json files (#1598) (3de0b05)

3.2.3 (2020-02-04)

Bug Fixes

• color-contrast: support IE extension context (#2008) (cd651a0)
• unicode: stop parsing escaped unicode strings (#1997) (523a31c)

3.2.2 (2019-03-07)

Bug Fixes

• Avoid "screen is not defined" error [#1404](<#1415>) (c9653a5)

3.2.1 (2019-03-06)

Bug Fixes

• Avoid require conflict with Cypress [#1405](<#1406>) (30aa570)

3.2.0 (2019-03-04)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-role: Allow iframe role=none (a4fa44d)
• color-contrast: Prevent crash on large inline elments #1306 (#1341) (e1bcafc)
• commons: Allow any node in aria.getRole (#1258) (26fa49a), closes #1163
• i18n: Fix and add Japanese translation (#1368) (74fa0a4, #1291) (f450176, #1332) (0a03c8f, #1107) (8138e55)
• messages: Change messages from "page" to "document" where appropriate (#1156) (49dff2b), closes #983 #983
• rule: Frame-title applies to wcag242 (#1312) (9225ae0)
• rule: Prevent th-has-data-cells from crashing on empty rows (#1285) (88017be)
• typedefs: Do not require brand and application (#1264) (59465dc), closes /github.com/dequelabs/axe-webdriverjs/blob/v2.0.1/lib/axe-injector.js#L28
• Add Banner comment in generated axe files (#1112) (e4788bf)
• Allow div groups for dlitem rule (#1284) (d76cd36)
• Allow role presentation and none on object-alt rule (#1224) (d475a17)
• Avoid IE problems by using nodeName instead of tagName (#1219) (cf86ff5)
• Better unsupported attribute support for aria-roledescription (#1382) (93f721e), closes #1216
• Consider element's accessible names when labels are hidden (#1187) (b91b624), closes #1176
• Correct autocomplete appropriate to handle state terms (#1121) (35a4d11)
• Correct autocomplete street address (#1217) (27fce9d)
• Correct autocomplete-appropriate node type resolution (#1318) (2fc3eeb)
• CSSOM generation for shadowRoot in Safari (#1113) (a51ae03)
• Don't flag invalid roles in unsupportedrole (#1328) (2dfcbaa)
• Escape href attribute when generating a CSS selector [#1137](<#1366>) (0c2f42d)
• Flag hidden elms with disallowed role(s) for review (#1225) (bdff141)
• Handle noscript and template in dom.isVisible (#1257) (e67fc65)
• html-lang-valid should consider xml:lang (#1152) (4279c72)
• Ignore invalid and allow redundant role in aria-allowed-role (#1118) (a0f9b31)
• Introduce dom.isHiddenWithCSS for use in dom.isFocusable (#1211) (2cff417)
• Log instead of error on unknown tag (#1290) (f82d773)
• Prevent TypeErrors in color-contrast checks (#1320) (a34165c), closes #1306 #1259
• Respect preload set to false (#1298) (e847d38)
• Set preload:true as default (#1281) (c9731c8)
• Support skiplinks starting with "/#" (#1286) (f93c0c9)
• Update SC to wcag134 for CSS Orientation Rule (d3f90df)

Features

• commons: Add matches methods (#1270) (986c97a), closes #1163
• image-alt: require alt text or empty strings (#1260) (e24cea9)
• new-rule: New aria-hidden-focus rule (#1166) (4489965)
• new-rule: Separate form-field-multiple-label from label rule (#1226) (0e0063c)
• new-rule: Label and Name from Content mismatch WCAG21 (Issue #1149) (#1335) (a4255da)
• rule: Require unique aria labels in checkboxgroup & radiogroup (#1316) (c9b310d)
• Add a reference to the node a rule failed on (#1321) (68741de), closes #1317
• Add allowEmpty option for aria-valid-attr-value (#1154) (89d18d0), closes #994
• Add environment details to results (#1353) (e795f7d)
• ARIA supported checks (#1254) (51a18a8), closes #918
• New rule landmark-complementary-is-top-level (#1239) (328ca2c)
• Pass context argument to rule matches (#1370) (b374669)
• Rebuild the accessible text algorithm (#1163) (5f420e5)
• Tag review-items rule as 'best-practice' (#1344) (05f37de)

Performance Improvements

• Defer rules rather than checks (#1308) (80c1c74), closes #1172
• Speed up getNodeFromTree (#1302) (5f834ed)
• Update performanceTimer end mark for rules (#1303) (a28674e), closes #701 #1172

Deprecate

• Deprecate axe.commons.utils namespace (#1330) (df93272)

3.1.2 (2018-09-07)

Bug Fixes

• i18n: Update Japanese locale (#1107) (8138e55)
• autocomplete appropriate to handle state terms (#1121) (35a4d11)
• banner comment in generated axe files (#1112) (e4788bf)
• ignore invalid and allow redundant role in aria-allowed-role (#1118) (a0f9b31)

3.1.1 (2018-08-28)

Bug Fixes

• Fix broken 3.1.0 release script (c3b2a52)

3.1.0 (2018-08-28)

Bug Fixes

• rule fix: Allow fallback labels when input has id (#951) (54fa569)
• rule fix: Updating aria 1.1 allowed attributes (#964) (c3249c1)
• rule fix: Allow aria-errormessage with fallback (17608b6)
• rule fix: Ignore abstracts in determining element roles (1af6088)
• rule fix: Add combobox and radio required properties (e80af7a)
• rule fix: Allow all ARIA idref(s) to be empty (1498696)
• rule fix: Allow divs as groups in dl (#1076) (f4f6df6), closes #262
• rule fix: Allow live-region and dialog in region rule (#1073) (fb6438b)
• rule fix: Allow only-dlitem / only-listitem to have any hidden content (#1098) (6034aae), closes #1021
• rule fix: Do not flag font icons in color-contrast rule (#1095) (b6ac084), closes #1068
• rule fix: Do not require media captions / descriptions (#1075) (289f623), closes #816
• rule fix: improve messaging for hidden labels (ae07b8e)
• rule fix: Ignore abstracts in determining element roles (e3b1e1d)
• rule fix: Correctly handle role attribute on lists and listitems. (#949) (3a8729b)
• core: allow returning a Promise in jsdom from axe.run (#943) (3858a1f)
• typescript: Correct Check.evaluate and Check.after type definitions (#976) (db3ed40), closes #974
• typescript: Typescript interface updates (#973) (f8c9905), closes #972
• messages: Clearer fail message for aria-labelledby (956281b)
• messages: Consistent landmark rule/check descriptions (#1003) (d792970)
• messages: Show attribute in message (#1061) (9ff5d54)
• Check data is an array of IDs (d64bc5f)
• Don't crash with slot elements without shadowDOM (#977) (cc044af)
• Generate jsdoc(umentation) (9f9b15b)
• Stop indexOf override from crashing Axe (#968) (e3329ce)
• Use node.matches* in place of prototype.matches* to prevent IE crash (#956) (ebdb590)

Features

• new rule: Added new html-xml-lang-mismatch rule (#999) (7452a51)
• new rule: aria-allowed-role (#945) (c270a46)
• new rule: css-orientation-lock (wcag21) (#1081) (4ae4ea0)
• new rule: Add WCAG 2.1 autocomplete-valid rule (e6189ce)
• rule fix: Flag unsupported roles (#1064) (5515ee6)
• rule fix: Remove non-existing "text" role (#1069) (67ec1f5)
• rule fix: Break up duplicate-id rule for ARIA+labels and active elements (2ecfea7)
• rule fix: Tag aria rules as WCAG 2, SC4.1.2 issues (e7816c0)
• core: Allow rules to access CSSOM assets (#958) (5d6c1fa)
• core: Add doT template engine (#1024) (f6f08d4)
• commons: Add aria.getRole method (1d2a0e4)
• commons: Add text.isValidAutocomplete method (8d44fe4)
• i18n: Add runtime localization support (#1036) (7d4b70f)
• i18n: Update FR (french) translation file for 3.1 release (#1089) (4a5cad0)
• i18n: Update ja (Japanese) locale for 3.1 release (#1101) (ef6cd86)
• deprecate: Deprecate audio-caption rule (#1071) (3b05fee)

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.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