2.10.0 - 2015-11-13

2.10.0-rc.1 - 2015-10-19

Bug fixes:

  • linkWithUnclearPurpose should only look at links, not <a> without href. (#245)

2.10.0-rc.0 - 2015-10-09

New rules

  • A tabpanel should be related to a tab via aria-controls or aria-labelledby (src/audits/UncontrolledTabpanel.js)
  • A data table must identify row and column headers (src/audits/TableHasAppropriateHeaders.js)
  • A tooltip element should have an aria-describedby referring to it (src/audits/RoleTooltipRequiresDescribedBy.js).

Enhancements

  • Pull DOM-related functionality out into DOMUtils.js

Bug fixes:

  • Fix findTextAlternatives not always correctly ignoring hidden elements (#217).
  • findTextAlternatives now honors alt attribute of input type image
  • Revert #150 which was causing the extension not to work.
  • AX_HTML_02 (duplicate IDs) now only audits elements that are referenced by an IDREF (#141);
  • Fix #171 by being smarter about finding the composed parent node.
  • Tweak in canScrollTo to handle the (common) case where the container is document.body (#243).

2.9.0 - 2015-09-04

2.9.0-rc.0 - 2015-08-21

New rules

  • A label element may not have labelable descendants other than its labeled control (src/audits/MultipleLabelableElementsPerLabel.js)

Enhancements

  • Implement support for specifying audit configuration options through an object when initializing audits (#165).
  • Implement support for AMD loaders.

Bug fixes:

  • Fix badAriaAttributeValue not correctly handling decimal values (#182).
  • Work around null pointer exception caused by closure compiler issue (#183).
  • Add a special case to handle color "transparent" to fix (#180).
  • Fix matchSelector not working properly in browser environments without vendor prefixes (#189).
  • Fix false positives on elements with no role for Unsupported ARIA Attribute rule (#178 and #199).
  • Fix ARIA tablist and ARIA tab scope (#204)
  • Fix link with clear purpose with text alternative (#156);
  • Handle edge cases in number parser, e.g. “+1”, “.1”, “01”
  • HTML button containing img with alt attribute now passes controlsWithoutLabel (#202)
  • Disabled elements should be ignored by low contrast audit (#205)
  • Fix input of type “text” did not find correct implied role (#225)
  • Hidden links are no longer relevant for meaningful link text rule.

2.8.0 - 2015-07-24

2.8.0-rc.0 - 2015-07-10

Enhancements:

  • Pull color code into separate file.
  • Improve color suggestion algorithm.
  • Descend into iframes when collecting matching elements.

2.7.1 - 2015-06-30

2.7.1-rc.1 - 2015-06-23

Bug fixes:

  • Check for null textAlternatives in FocusableElementNotVisibleAndNotAriaHidden's relevantElementMatcher method.

2.7.1-rc.0 - 2015-06-15

Enhancements:

  • Rework findTextAlternatives not to return non-exposed text alternatives.
  • Add Bower config (#157)

Bug fixes:

  • Check for any text alternatives when assessing unlabeled images (#154).

2.7.0 - 2015-05-15

New rules

  • This element does not support ARIA roles, states and properties (src/audits/AriaOnReservedElement.js)
  • aria-owns should not be used if ownership is implicit in the DOM (src/audits/AriaOwnsDescendant.js)
  • Elements with ARIA roles must be in the correct scope (src/audits/AriaRoleNotScoped.js)
  • An element's ID must be unique in the DOM (src/audits/DuplicateId.js)
  • The web page should have the content's human language indicated in the markup (src/audits/HumanLangMissing.js)
  • An element's ID must not be present in more that one aria-owns attribute at any time (src/audits/MultipleAriaOwners.js)
  • ARIA attributes which refer to other elements by ID should refer to elements which exist in the DOM (src/audits/NonExistentAriaRelatedElement.js - previously src/audits/NonExistentAriaLabeledBy.js)
  • Elements with ARIA roles must ensure required owned elements are present (src/audits/RequiredOwnedAriaRoleMissing.js)
  • Avoid positive integer values for tabIndex (src/audits/TabIndexGreaterThanZero.js)
  • This element has an unsupported ARIA attribute (src/audits/UnsupportedAriaAttribute.js)

Enhancements:

  • Add configurable blacklist phrases and stop words to LinkWithUnclearPurpose (#99)
  • Detect and warn if we reuse the same code for more than one rule. (#133)
  • Force focus before testing visibility on focusable elements. (#65)
  • Use getDistributedNodes to get nodes distributed into shadowRoots (#128)
  • Add section to Audit Rules page for HumanLangMissing and link to it from rule (#119)
  • Reference “applied role” in axs.utils.getRoles enhancement (#130)
  • Add warning that AX_FOCUS_02 is not available from axs.Audit.run() (#85)

Bug fixes:

  • Incorrect use of nth-of-type against className in utils.getQuerySelectorText (#87)
  • AX_TEXT_01 Accessibility Audit test should probably ignore role=presentation elements (#97)
  • Fix path to audit rules in phantomjs runner (#108)
  • Label audit should fail if form fields lack a label, even with placeholder text (#81)
  • False positives for controls without labels with role=presentation (#23)
  • Fix “valid” flag on return value of axs.utils.getRoles (#131)

Note: this version number is somewhat arbitrary - just bringing it vaguely in line with the extension since that's where the library originated - but will use semver for version bumps going forward from here.

0.0.5 - 2014-02-04

Enhancements:

  • overlapping elements detection code made more sophisticated
  • axs.properties.getFocusProperties() returns more information about visibility
  • new axs.properties.hasDirectTextDescendant() method with more sophisticated detection of text content

Bug fixes:

  • FocusableElementNotVisibleAndNotAriaHidden audit passes on elements which are brought onscreen on focus
  • UnfocusableElementsWithOnclick checks for element.disabled
  • Fix infinite loop when getting descendant text content of a label containing an input
  • Detect elements which are out of scroll area of any parent element, not just the document scroll area
  • findTextAlternatives doesn't throw TypeError if used on a HTMLSelectElement

0.0.4 - 2013-10-03

Enhancements:

  • axs.AuditRule.run() has a new signature: it now takes an options object. Please see method documentation for details.
  • Audit Rule severity can be overridden (per Audit Rule) in AuditConfig.

Bug fixes:

  • axs.utils.isLowContrast() now rounds to the nearest 0.1 before checking (so #777 is now a passing value)
  • MainRoleOnInappropriateElement was always failing due to accessible name calculation taking the main role into account and not descending into content (now just gets descendant content directly)
  • UnfocusableElementsWithOnClick had a dangling if-statement causing very noisy false positives