Accessibility Insights for Android Release - 2020.518.7

Welcome to the May 19th, 2020 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

New rule guidance in automated checks

There is now rule guidance for each failed rule in Automated checks.

When a rule is expanded, a new section showing rule guidance appears along the failure instances for this rule. This guidance shows links to additional information about the rule, including why it matters, examples, and detailed instructions for fixing the issue.

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Android Release - 2020.505.5

Welcome to the May 7th, 2020 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

Electron Version Update

We have upgraded our Electron client from version 7.0.1 to version 8.2.2.
This is part of routine maintenance to ensure that we're using up-to-date components.

Bug Fixes:

• Set a min-width of 320px for the export dialog (#2541)
• Increased the size of the export dialog and ensure it resizes correctly (#2562)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web 2.18.2

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Welcome to the May 4th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

Tables requirements in Assessment

Based on feature request (#1297), we reviewed the requirements for tables and made some changes and additions to the requirements for testing tables. This fixes a gap we had for ensuring data tables are fully tested.

• Modified Sequence test > layout tables requirement instructions so they are consistent with how we describe data and layout tables in other requirements
• Renamed the Semantics test > Data tables requirement to Table Semantics and modified instructions to ensure users verify each table is coded correctly for its type (data or layout tables).
• Added two new requirements to the Semantics test: Headers, to check that coded headers are used correctly and Headers attribute, to check that headers attribute are referenced by the correct <th> element.

Bug fixes

• Aligned titles of Info & Examples panels with the panel close button (#2572)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.17.0

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Welcome to the April 28th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

Preview feature: Export to CodePen

The Preview features panel now has a "More export options" switch. This switch adds a drop-down menu to the "Export" button of "Export results" dialogs with a new option to export a report to CodePen, as opposed to downloading an html file.

Thanks @sean-beard for contributing this feature! (#2252)

Support for pages without a element

Accessibility Insights for Web can now scan a page that uses a non- element as the document body (for example, pages based on a element). (#2437)

Third party notices

The dropdown menu available after selecting the Accessibility Insights for Web browser toolbar button now includes a "Third party notices" option built into the extension. This replaces the link to our NOTICE file on GitHub previously listed in our Chrome Web Store and Edge Add-on Store listings. (#2525)

Bug fixes

*Clarified "How to fix" text in "Focus > Revealing content" to exclude expandable tree views from the requirement (#2426)
*Clarified grammar of "How to fix" text in "Sequence > Layout" tables requirement (#2554)
*Updated the headings guidance information to note that using exactly one top-level heading is best-practice, not a WCAG 1.3.1 requirement (#2480)
*Restarting an Assessment will now go to the Overview page rather than Automated Checks (#2522)
*Fixed visual alignment of outcome count in Automated Checks section of FastPass report (#2496)
*Improved color contrast of several buttons in high contrast mode (#2439)
*Assessment exported report footers now refer to "axe-core" instead of "Axe"

Thank you

Thank you to the following contributors that helped make Accessibility Insights even better:

@sean-beard (#2252)

Accessibility Insights for Android Release - 2020.422.21

Welcome to the April 23rd, 2020 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

New Automated checks report

Users can now download a detailed html report with the results of their automated checks.
There is also the option to add a description to include in the report.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the dialog was not changing color under High Contrast
• The connected device info is now cleared when the device disconnected (#2323)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web 2.16.0

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Welcome to the March 30th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

Fixed an issue in Assessment related to showing certain decorative images as "meaningful"

Images implemented using <svg> tags, icon fonts with <i> tags, and CSS background images were previously reported as meaningful whenever they had any associated accessible text, even if they did not have a role="img" attribute (#696). In this release, we have updated the text and/or instance detection of the following requirements to consider those types of images as decorative instead (#2389):

• Image > Image function
• Image > Text alternative
• Image > Images of text
• Contrast > Graphics

Security improvements

Exported reports will now display a confirmation dialog before following links to the page being tested (#2399).

Performance improvements

Fixed performance issues when using the browser's Dev Tools to inspect elements on pages with Accessibility Insights visualizations active (#2408)

Bug fixes

• Removed unnecessary horizontal scroll bar in the "no failures detected" in the automated checks screen in Fastpass that happened at certain window sizes (#2400)
• Changed "powered by Axe" to "powered by axe-core" in FastPass exported report footer (#2348)
• Added a note to the "How to fix" text for Contrast > State Changes requirement to clarify which elements are in scope (#2409)
• Improved how disabled Visual Helper toggles are read by ATs (#2398)
• Fixed the way our first-time telemetry dialog's title was read by ATs (#2327)
• Fixed issue where refreshing the page would prevent the correct display of the "No content available" page shown when a target page is closed (#2344)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.15.0

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Welcome to the March 9th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

Update to axe-core 3.5.1

We updated our rule engine to axe-core 3.5.1.
This update includes 11 false-positive fixes, 1 false-negative fix and will surface 2 new automated checks rules:
• Aria-roledescription: checks that the aria-roledescription attribute is only used on elements with a supported role (WCAG 4.1.2)
• svg-img-alt: Ensures svg elements with an img, graphics-document or graphics-symbol role have an accessible text (WCAG 1.1.1)

Check axe-core release notes for more details.

Ada cat is back in automated checks!

In automated checks in FastPass, when no issues are found, there is now an image of a sleeping Ada cat as well as a message encouraging users to continue testing the accessibility compliance of their website using Tabstops and Assessment.

• Added a congratulations message in automated checks to direct to assessment (#2188)
• Added a sleeping Ada cat image when no failures are found in automated checks (#2108)

Improvements to the contrast of our UI elements

In this release, we have improved the contrast ratio of various elements:

• fixed focus contrast in the settings icon in details view (#2278)
• increased the contrast in the secondary text color (#2064)
• increased contrast in the disabled buttons in high contrast mode (#2273)
• increased contrast in the primary buttons in high contrast mode (#2269)

Bug Fixes

• changed the URL in the iframe warning of "learn more" to point to the FAQ entry. (#2310)
• fit and finish changes in the settings, preview and add failure instance panels (#2307)
• reverted Office Fabric V 7.98.0 to fix the content panel close button position (#2295)
• Selecting a card now causes the target page to scroll that failure into view (#2206)

Accessibility Insights for Android Release - 2020.306.3

Welcome to the March 9th, 2020 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

Accessibility Insights for Android is a free, open source tool that helps developers find and fix accessibility issues in Android apps.
The tool runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can test apps on a hardware device or on an Android Virtual Device.

Automated checks in Accessibility Insights for Android

Accessibility Insights for Android features automated checks that quickly test UI elements for some common accessibility issues, such as low contrast, missing names, or inadequate touch target sizes. The rules are based on axe-android, an open source accessibility rules library developed by Deque Systems.

In Accessibility Insights for Android, the results are displayed with a screenshot of the app being tested.
Each of the flagged accessibility issues are highlighted in the screenshot as well as in a list with instructions on how to fix the issue.

With the settings options, users can also opt-in or out of telemetry and use the High Contrast mode.

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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January 28th 2020 Release [v2.14.1]

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Welcome to the January 28th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

We updated our Office UI Fabric from version 6 to version 7. Beside a few cosmetic changes, the update allows to fix the following issues:

• WCAG 2.1: 1.4.13 tooltip in modal dialog is not dismissible #777
• WCAG 2.1: High Contrast mode - Buttons' inner background color has insufficient contrast #763
• In details view, console exception is thrown for violating Content Security Policy directive #1758

Bug Fixes

• fixed a list where the structure was incorrect (#2037)
• fixed a parsing issue: avoid invalid div/span nesting in left nav items (#1801)
• fixed an issues where the rule group header losed focus indicator while using AT (#1568)

January 6th 2020 Release [v2.13.1]

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Welcome to the January 6th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

New UI for fast pass automated checks

Based on numerous feedback and user studies we have a new UI for Automated checks in FastPass.
The new UI is consistent with the automated checks report. This also simplifies the workflow for selecting elements and reviewing the details on the failure and how to fix information.

Refinements to Accessibility Insights for Web permissions

We are changing permissions of Accessibility Insights for Web to only request access to the active page. This provides additional security and privacy to our users and will streamline the review process for publishing the extension.

For our users this means to changes to the workflow:

• if your page has iframes, we will ask for additional permissions to ensure we can scan the iframes too. You can read more about this additional permission on our FAQ.
• if you have an Assessment or FastPass in progress, and then try to change the domain-level portion of the URL of the tab Accessibility Insights is running against to a different one (for example, from foo.com to bar.com), you will need to start a new test by going to that new page and re-launching the Accessibility Insights extension by selecting the extension button. Previously, you would have been able to re-use the old Accessibility Insights page.

Bug Fixes

• Reordered the buttons tab order in the assessment in progress dialog [#1929]
• Fixed the telemetry settings toggle focus ring cut-off [#1928]
• Added an announcement to the scanning spinner on assessment's automated checks [#1926]
• Fixed an bug where the issue filing heading not being read for NVDA users [#1914]
• Updated description in status messages [#1920]
• Added aria-labelledby to ensure that Narrator/NVDA read the label name for links on Rule name and Success Criterion link [#1900]
• Added a tooltip to show full Target Page in the details view target page link [#1863]
• Narrator now reads the label name as" Target Page" for the target page link [#1837]
• Fixed an issue where automated checks was scanned in assessments view even when it is not selected [#1817]
• Header bar components now collapse when the window is resized or text spacing is applied [#1803]
• Command bar buttons now wrap their text when window size is decreased [#1795]
• Fixed minor typo in Headings test of Assessments [#1785]
• Added a fix to show the aria labels in the Custom widget Test [#1639]
• Fixed that the Visual Helper toggle in Assessment > Automated Checks was not toggling target page highlights [#1567]
• Fixed the overlapping text in the Switcher when text spacing was applied [#1219]

Thank you

Thank you to the following contributors that helped make Accessibility Insights even better:

• @varshannagarajan [#1606]

October 28th 2019 Release [v2.10.3]

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Fixes and Updates

• Fixed the AT announcement on scanning animation, we now announce to ATs that we are scanning (#1519)
• Fixed misalignments in dialog nav footer (and simplify footer layout/css) (#1517)
• Added a fix to prevent future scrollable-region-focusable issues by moving scroll region to body on content pages (#1514)
• Added AT announcement on number of failures detected in CardsView (#1523)

October 21st 2019 Release [v2.10.2]

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Bug Fixes

• After feedback from a feature request, we added appropriate UI to make it clear that the "start over" button will open a dropdown menu (#1321)
• Added a fix to prevent double-scrollbars in various details view pages (#1334)
• Fixed weird scrollbars in "No content available" page (#1462)
• Added encoding setting on the Assessment Report (#1450)
• Added screen reader announcement and a longer timeout to the toast notifications for copying failure details (#1445, #1479)

Thank you

Thank you to the following contributors that helped make Accessibility Insights even better:

• @grgr-dkrk (#1450)

September 24th 2019 Release [v2.10.0]

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Highlights

Updated to axe-core 3.3.2

We updated our engine to axe-core 3.3.2. This update includes 13 false-positive fixes, 1 false-negative fix and will surface 5 new automated checks rules:
• aria-input-field-name (WCAG 4.1.2): Ensures every ARIA input field has an accessible name
• aria-toggle-field-name (WCAG 4.1.2): Ensures every ARIA toggle field has an accessible name
• avoid-inline-spacing (WCAG 1.4.12): Ensure that text spacing set through style attributes can be adjusted with custom stylesheets
• input-button-name (WCAG 4.1.12) : Ensures input buttons have discernible text
• role-img-alt (WCAG 1.1.1): Ensures [role='img'] elements have alternate text

Check axe-core release notes for more details.

September 12th 2019 Release [v2.9.2]

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Welcome to the September 12th Release of Accessibility insights for Web!

Bug Fixes

• After reviewing the documentation for S.C. 1.4.11, we have made text modifications to 3 requirements. [#1203, #1204 and #1205]
• Did a CSS fix to Automated Checks scrollbars

Thank you

Thank you to the following contributors that helped make Accessibility Insights even better:

• isadu (#1220)

August 30th 2019 Release [v2.9.1]

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Welcome to the August 30th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web

Highlights

Full WCAG 2.1 coverage

Accessibility Insights for Web now has full WCAG 2.1 coverage in the assessment experience!

Apart from the 9 requirements we added in a past release V2.8.0 we have added new assisted requirements with guidance and info & examples:

• Native Widgets test
  • Autocomplete (WCAG 1.3.5)
  • Instructions (expanding to cover WCAG 2.5.3)
• Custom Widgets test
  • Instructions (expanding to cover WCAG 2.5.3)
• Contrast (new test)
  • UI components (WCAG 1.4.11)
  • State changes (WCAG 1.4.11)
  • Graphics (WCAG 1.4.11)

We also renamed two requirements:

• Native Widgets test
  • Label requirement is now named Expected input
• Custom Widgets test
  • Label requirement is now named Expected input

Bug Fixes

• Fixed: Text spacing link doesn't take user to the text spacing bookmarklet [#1163]
• Fixed typos on Page navigation -> Page title guidance content [#1145]

August 21st 2019 Release [v2.8.2]

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Welcome to the August 21st Release of Accessibility insights for Web

Highlights

• Performance: Improved the loading time for the extension popup and the main extension UI by 5-10% (#1062)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed misalignment between the 2 columns of test details in the assessment overview page (#1088)
• Made the text size in the assessment requirement details area slightly larger for consistency with the rest of the page (#1095)
• Fixed typos in new manual WCAG 2.1 test guidance (#1042)
• Issues and bugs filed for elements within iframes now contain the full CSS selector path in their titles (#1104)
• Azure Boards users using its "default Scrum" mode can now file issues in the automated checks (#1009)

August 8th 2019 Release [v2.8.0]

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Welcome to the August 8th Release of Accessibility insights for Web

Highlights

New WCAG 2.1 requirements in Assessment

Accessibility Insights for Web now has 9 new manual requirements with Guidance and info & examples:

• Keyboard test
  • Character Keyboard shortcuts (WCAG 2.1.4)
• Errors test
  • Status messages (WCAG 4.1.3)
• Text legibility test
  • Orientation (WCAG 1.3.4)
  • Reflow (WCAG 1.4.10)
  • Text Spacing (WCAG 1.4.12)
  • Hover / focus content (WCAG 1.4.13)
• Pointer /Motion test (new test)
  • Pointer gestures (WCAG 2.5.1)
  • Pointer cancellation (WCAG 2.5.2)
  • Motion operation (WCAG 2.5.4)

This partially covers WCAG 2.1 success criteria. Keep tuned for full WCAG 2.1 compliance coverage in Assessment. Additionally, renamed the "Error" test to "Error / status".

Bug Fixes

• Fix: Automated checks report: x icons are coded as no value (#959) (febd9f49), closes #937

Note: this Release was initially created with a tag referencing incorrect commit 455e895; the release and its tag were updated on 8/20/2019 to reference commit e55f53c, which is the commit that was actually used to build the released version

July 15th 2019 Release [v2.7.1]

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Welcome to the July 16th Release of Accessibility insights for Web

Highlights

• Automated Checks Report Improvements
  • New failed rule group header with accessibility and usability improvements
  • New Resources for this rule card under Failed instances section
  • Added main landmark to improve navigation with screen readers

Bug Fixes

• Fix: color of message bar icon in high contrast mode (#919) (ffb84c8), closes #919
• Fix: image role on svg and guidance content (#916) (b9274f1), closes #916
• Fix: inspect HTML button should not be disabled and show warning error when devtools are not open (0e2fbbc), closes #859
• Made color changes to $communication-primary, shade-10, shade-20, shade-30 (#882) (9b0ae1d), closes #882

June 28th 2019 Release [v2.6.0]

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Welcome to the June 28th release of Accessibility insights for Web

Highlights

• Feature requests

  • We now persist the result description in the Export result dialog in Assessment (#699)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with the extension crashing on Linux (#864), closes #860
• We now show the "target page changed" dialog when we go from one file url to another (#836), closes #591

June 21st 2019 Release [v2.5.5]

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Bug Fixes

• Restored spacing and icons in failure instance dialog UI (#833), closes #829
• Fix Landmark visualizations colors (#831), closes #694
• fix: add missing footer line to new automated checks report (#824)