axe-core

Bug Fixes

• respondable: work on iframes in shadow DOM (#2857) (65cbfd0)
• utils: fix warning thrown by Webpack (#2843) (df5d01b), closes #2840

Bug Fixes

• respondable: Avoid message duplication with messageId (#2816) (9b6eb59)
• types: Add noHtml option (#2810) (8bc0bae)

Bug Fixes

• add noHtml to axe.configure (#2789) (6e23eb0)
• do not allow postMessage with axe version of x.y.z (#2790) (8b1671d)

Bug Fixes

• remove axios import (#2653) (2d20cde)
• color-contrast: greatly improve color-contrast-matches speed. add aria/get-accessible-ref (#2635) (ba174bd)

Features

• new-rule: check that treeitem role has an accessible name (#2615) (5e95153)
• Add aria-dialog-name (#2609) (b0e14b0)
• aria-toggle-field-name: add option role (#2605) (0af0551)
• checks: deprecate role-none and role-presentation for presentational-role (#2503) (cef54a0)
• get-role: add noPresentational option (#2549) (4f39299), closes #1792
• imports: deprecate axios (#2542) (82d43a0)
• label,select-name: allow placeholder to pass label rule, add select-name rule (#2448) (1315f8e)
• new-rule: ARIA links, buttons, menuitems have an accessible name (#2571) (9476a1f)
• new-rule: aria-tooltip-name (#2548) (d00f378)
• new-rule: check that meter role has an accessible name (#2607) (3ca2f04)
• new-rule: check that progressbars have an accessible name (#2555) (dd0b44a)
• presentation-role-conflict: create rule to flag elements with role conflict resolution (#2440) (e4edffc)
• rule-matches: depreacte window-is-top-matches for is-intiator-matches (#2531) (db2be93)
• standards: add superclassRole to ariaRoles (#2600) (a5e9ce0)
• standards: add superclassRole to dpubRoles (#2606) (1b66930)
• utils: deprecate get/set-scroll-state (#2581) (3c4827f)
• valid-langs: deprecate validLangs, add isValidLangs, reduce file size (#2527) (8a699ec)

Bug Fixes

• commons/get-text-element-stack: account for newline characters when text is larger than container (#2631) (3c2429b)
• Update ACT rule tags (#2625) (c640d4f)
• aria-errormessage: allow aria-live="polite" on aria-errormessage target (926b6a8)
• aria-errormessage: allow aria-live=polite on aria-errormessage target (#2597) (0d5cfb1)
• aria-roles: add group to menuitemradio context (#2518) (52b89f1)
• aria-roles: Add WAI-ARIA 1.2 roles (#2544) (635b084), closes #2107 #2107 #2107 #2107
• attr-non-space-content-evaluate: Split no attribute and empty attribute message (#2495) (5f822f4)
• audit: updated axe.reset() to reset branding, application, and tagExcludes. (#2537) (828864b)
• autocomplete-valid: allow type=tel for appropriate cc types (#2575) (ae21713)
• checks/aria: Mark elements missing from aria-errormessage for review (#2550) (8f9a035), closes #2460
• color-contrast: allow small text shadows to serve as text outline (#2627) (432e1f3)
• color-contrast: mark elements with pseudo content as needs review (#2613) (fcdbdbc)
• color-contrast: properly handle scrolling text (#2619) (984e7e2)
• docs/rules: add missing category tags to rules metadata (#2569) (285c442), closes #2554
• explicit-label: work with multiple labels (#2573) (d26f106)
• get-headers: fix for rowspan and colspan (#2545) (3f02d14)
• heading-order: evaluate headings from iframes in DOM order (#2572) (46f6628)
• implilcit-role: use type property instead of attribute to resolve input role (#2547) (35e853d), closes #2514
• link-name: pass landmark content as link text (#2617) (e77992e)
• name-rules: ignore when explicit roles don't require a name (#2629) (52fb138)
• region: allow role=dialog and svg elements outside regions (#2586) (fab58d4)
• region: treat iframes as regions (#2614) (936db81)
• rule: add check node to the check result object (#2608) (b188911)
• scrollable-region-focusalbe: do not fail for combobox pattern (#2601) (ac71a57)
• deprecate aria-form-field-name-matches for no-name-method-matches (#2584) (8be89e3)
• do not allow fallback content for objects (#2525) (486eafe)

Bug Fixes

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

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)

Bug Fixes

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)