accessibility-insights-web

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.44.0

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Welcome to the July 16th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

• We have upgraded
  • axe-core to v4.9.1

Bug fixes

• There are multiple errors when we refresh the info-example pages (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/issues/7378)
• Fixed the headings are tagged with role="none" in assessment and Adhoc tools. (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/issues/7362)

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Welcome to the June 20th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

• We have upgraded
  • React and React-dom to v18
  • @fluentui/react to v8.118.1.
  • Typescript to v5.4.5

Bug fixes

• Heading in the panel overlaps with text underneath it when scrolling(https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/issues/5840)
• The aria-required-children rule flags child elements that are not in the accessibility tree as needing to be removed (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/issues/7273)

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Welcome to the May 29 release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

• New rules added to Automated Checks in FastPass
  • aria-conditional-attr
  • aria-deprecated-role
  • aria-prohibited-attr
• Duplicate-id / duplicate-id-active rules have been deprecated since version 4.8.0.
• Duplicate-id-aria moving from Automated Checks to Needs Review in FastPass.

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.8.4

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.8.4 (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/7274). Check the axe-core 4.8.4 release notes for more details.

Bug fixes

• QuickAssessToAssessmentDialog does not redirect focus to the trigger button after it close (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/7264)
• Failure instance visual helper checkbox in issues table does not correctly update aria-checked/checked when it is toggled (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/7264)
• In High contrast aquatic mode focus is not visible properly for "Arrow and + (add a failure instance)" button (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/7260)
• No links to needs-review doc pages? (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/7133)
• Update WCAG 2.1 AA references to include WCAG 2.2 AA (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/7223)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.41.0

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Welcome to the November 7th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

New WCAG 2.2 requirements in Assessment

Accessibility Insights for Web now has 4 new requirements for existing tests and 1 new test with 2 new requirements:

• Focus test
  • Focus Not Obscured (WCAG 2.4.11)
• Pointer/Motion test
  • Dragging Movements (WCAG 2.5.7)
  • Target Size (WCAG 2.5.8)
• Repetitive content test
  • Consistent Help (WCAG 3.2.6)
• Cognitive test (New!)
  • Redundant entry (WCAG 3.2.7)
  • Authentication (WCAG 3.3.8)

This covers WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria. All new requirements are marked with the "New in WCAG 2.2" tag. Additionally, the Parsing requirement is marked with a "Deprecated for WCAG 2.2" tag, as it has been deprecated for WCAG 2.2 but is still required for WCAG 2.1.

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.40.0

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Welcome to the September 26th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Quick Assess UX Improvements

• Quick Assess is no longer behind a preview feature flag.
• Quick Assess now has the ability to export results as HTML or JSON.
• Moved explainer text on the Overview page away from the main content and into the "help" box to the side for clarity and brevity.

Bug fixes

• Fixed typo in tab stop instructions (#6905)
• Fixed a bug in Quick Assess where the Automated checks text in the navigation bar does not match other tests (#6946)
• Small styling improvements to the Requirement "Why it matters" box (#6945)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.39.0

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Welcome to the August 23rd release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

• aria-roledescription rule has been deprecated since version 4.7.0.
• aria-roles rule has been updated with the role=directory being deprecated.
• aria-required will no longer flag invalid issues when used on elements with role=switch or slider.
• scrollable-region-focusable has changed impact to serious, moving from Needs Review to Automated Checks in FastPass.

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.7.2

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.7.2 (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/6849). Check the axe-core 4.7.2 release notes for more details.

Bug fixes

• Fixed spurious console errors (#6570)
• Fixed a bug that caused the UI to get stuck after a forced reloading of the extension (#6571)
• Improved color contrast of the "More actions" button in high contrast themes (#6593)
• Fixed an incorrect link for the skip-link rule (#6597)
• Clarified instructions around use of 400% zoom in the "Reflow" assessment test (#6631)
• Provided operating-specific instructions for "High contrast mode" and "Resize text" assessment tests (#6840)
• Clarified instructions for the tab stops test (#6845)
• Updated our icons to better support high contrast themes (#6854)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.38.1

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Welcome to the March 31st release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Cards view in Assessment and Quick Assess Automated checks

We have updated the Automated checks view in Assessment and Quick Assess to display cards for failure instances, similar to the Automated checks experience in FastPass.

Bug fixes

• Fixed adhoc color visualizer to correctly apply styling to html elements (#6428)
• Improved reflow behavior of FastPass count badges (#6452)

Thank you

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

• @abassey2
• @msa2984

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.37.3

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Welcome to the February 10th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Introducing Quick Assess

Accessibility Insights for Web has a new preview feature that will provide users with 10 assisted and manual checks to help them find more accessibility issues within 30 minutes. This addition allows users to find more accessibility issues early in their development process and empowers them to shift-left in their process.

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.6.3

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.6.3 (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/6334). Check the axe-core 4.6.3 release notes for more details.

Related paths

We have added a new "Related paths" section to FastPass Automated checks and Needs review results that involve multiple elements of a page, such as aria-required-children, color-contrast, and duplicate-id-active.

Bug fixes

• Improved formatting of Ad-hoc tool headings (#6301)
• Added a warning banner and retries when scanning pages that containing iframe that don't support script injection (#6330, #6183, #6367, and #6361)
• Improved color contrast of Save assessment button in some Windows High Contrast themes (#6364)
• Fixed incompatibility with certain FluentUI-based pages (#6294)
• Fixed an issue in Assessment where text reflow of warning bars did not work correctly for some window sizes (#6416)

Welcome to the January 11th, 2023 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Bug Fixes

• Accessibility Insights for Android now uses Electron 22.0.0 (#6243)
• Fixed an issue where contextual menu items were not setting a hover color correctly when hovering them with a mouse in Windows High Contrast mode (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/6140)
• Added reflow functionality in the card footer buttons instead of always showing a 'more actions' button (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/5966)
• Fixed reflowable card footer buttons (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/5852)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web 2.36.1

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Welcome to the December 13th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Manifest v3 support

Accessibility Insights for Web is now compatible with Google's new "Manifest v3" requirements for browser extensions. This change does not impact how you use Accessibility Insights, but required many technical changes to how Accessibility Insights works behind the scenes.

Thanks to all of the users that helped us test these changes in our "Insider MV3" builds! We will be deprecating the "Insider MV3" version of the extension shortly after this release.

Improved visibility for in-page highlight boxes

The highlight boxes Accessibility Insights for Web uses to draw attention to individual elements on a page are now easier to see, especially on pages with backgrounds whose colors are similar to the original color of the highlight boxes.

Bug fixes

Assessment text clarifications

• Improved the "How to fix" instructions in the Assessment "Parsing" requirement (#6154)
• Fixed some broken links in the Assessment "Design pattern" requirement (#6155)

Other fixes

• Improved performance of FastPass Tab stops issue detection on complex pages (#6114)
• Fixed an issue where FastPass Tab stops visualizations failed to render for elements in open shadow DOMs (#6046)
• Fixed an issue with exporting an Assessment to JSON where some requirement descriptions would read certain HTML tag names as "undefined" (#6132)
• Fixed an issue where contextual menu items were not setting a hover color correctly when hovering them with a mouse in Windows High Contrast mode (#6140)
• Updated how the headings of failure groups in some FastPass and report views are read to accessibility technologies to more closely match visual reading order (#6151)
• Improved compatibility with complex pages by increasing the amount of time we allow a page to take to respond before we consider it unresponsive (#6176)

Thank you

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

• @Pranav-yadav
• @segamiken

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.35.0

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Welcome to the September 30th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

New rules in Automated checks and Needs Review

The next Accessibility Insights for Web update enables 3 more axe-core rules, to help you catch even more issues:

• Aria-allowed-role
• Presentation-role-conflict
• P-as-heading (In the Needs Review test)

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in Tab stops where previous tab stops disappeared when tabbing to an element that isn't always visible (#6011)
• Fixed a bug where Tab stops breaks if some iframes do not load (#6028)
• Added reflow functionality in the card footer buttons instead of always showing a 'more actions' button (#5966)
• Fixed an issue where the color samples in automated checks where getting overridden when in high contrast (#6043)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.34.1

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Welcome to the September 8th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Assessment Tools has a new Label in Name requirement added to Links Test

We have added a new requirement in the Assessment Links Test section! This new requirement highlights links that have visible text on the target page and helps identify mismatches between a link's visible text label and its accessible name.

Ad Hoc Tools Experience upgraded to include accessible name

We have added a new visualization in the AdHoc Tools section! This new visualization highlights UI components and shows their Accessible name (up to 40 char).
Note: If a UI component cannot have an accessible name or if the UI component doesn't have an accessible name, it will not be highlighted.

Bug fixes

• Fixed low contrast issues in kebab menu when using high contrast themes (#4616)
• Fixed kebab actions menu in high contrast mode (#5614)
• Fixed icon to ensure visibility in high contrast mode (#5652 )
• Fixed only showing undo button in ChoiceGroupPassFail when an option is selected (#5676)
• Fixed Tabstops test instructions (#5611)
• Fix that adds tooltip to more actions button (#5607)
• Fixed message bar icon in high contrast (#5757)
• Fixed 'assessment saved' dialog after saving an assessment (#5608)
• Fixed test guidance link (#5746)
• Fixed visualizations for elements that include semicolons/commas (#5735)
• Fixed reflowable card footer buttons (#5852)

Thank you!

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

• @patrickhlauke

Welcome to the July 7th, 2022 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

• Accessibility Insights for Android now uses Electron 19.0.7

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a low contrast issue in the kebab menu when using high contrast mode. (#5568 )
• Fixed an issue where the focus does not return to the Export result button after user clicks "Export result" and then clicks the esc key to leave the dialog. (#5694 )

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

Android is a trademark of Google LLC.

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.32.0

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Welcome to the May 2nd release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.4.1

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.4.1 (#5388). As part of this update, there are 17 false-positive fixes, 1 rule change, and 1 general improvement.

Check the axe-core 4.4.0 and axe-core 4.4.1 release notes for more details.

Partially automated Tab Stops testing in FastPass

We added a "Don't show again" checkbox to the dialog indicating possible failures (#5265). You can toggle this option from Settings.

Bug fixes

• Replaced div elements that have role set as heading with heading elements (#5120)
• Fixed a visual issue with the heading element for level component (#5355)

Thank you!

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

• @majaokholm

Welcome to the April 15, 2022 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

• We added notarization to the Mac Client in Accessibility Insights for Android. This will simplify the installation process for users in Mac. #2154

Bug Fixes

• Replaced div elements that have role set as heading with heading elements #5120
• Auto update should work again on MacOS #3994/#2154

Thank you!

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

• @majaokholm

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

Android is a trademark of Google LLC.

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.31.1

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Welcome to the March 11th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Partially automated Tab Stops testing in FastPass

We have added a feature to highlight potential Tab stops issues automatically!

Where possible, when you run the Tab stops test we will show a dialog indicating that possible failures were auto-detected; in those cases, the requirement will automatically be marked as Fail and a failure instance with details on the issue will be added so you can review this potential issue.

Upgraded to FluentUI V8

We upgraded to FluentUI V8 that includes better High Contrast support (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/5244)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the target link in the FastPass and Assessment report was not receiving a complete focus indicator (#5175)
• Improved Orca's reading behavior (https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/4901, https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/pull/4904)
• Fixed an accessibility issue where the requirement names in the Failed instances list were not surrounded by emphasis tags (#5249)
• Fixed a font-rendering issue where the text was not appearing as semibold in Chrome (#5158)

Welcome to the March 9, 2022 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

• We upgraded to FluentUI V8 that includes better High Contrast support (#5244)

Bug Fixes

• Addressed issue where report export dialog disappears in reflow scenarios (#4947)
• Improved Orca's reading behavior (#4901, #4904)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

Android is a trademark of Google LLC.

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.30.1

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Welcome to the January 31st release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Enhanced Tab Stops experience in FastPass

We have enhanced the tab stops experience in FastPass to be more intuitive and actionable. This new experience allows you to pass or fail each of the five accessibility checks in tab stops, as well as add failure instances for each failure detected in the page being evaluated. These new results are also surfaced on the FastPass report.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing inconsistent highlight colors for failures in FastPass (#4948)
• Fixed an issue that caused Orca screen-reader to misread certain elements (#4901, #4904, #4918)
• Fixed an issue causing certain assessment table cells to truncate at high zoom levels (#4888)
• Fixed the visual helper in Sematics > Headers attribute to not obscure table cells (#4871)
• Added the word "next" to screen readers read-out for the next requirement chevron button (#4866)
• Fixed a bug causing the results to clear but no rescan to happen when FastPass link is used more than once (#4817)
• Fixed an issue causing the customizable shortcut for Needs Review to be unavailable (#4805)
• Fixed an issue causing certain assessment files to fail to load after saving (#4806)
• Fixed a contrast issue in links found in text blocks (#4932)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.29.0

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Welcome to the October 8th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Export report to JSON option added

You can now export Assessment results as JSON.
This new functionality was one of our most requested features from the community (#653 & #4398) and enables exporting the results of an assessment as data to group assessment results, generate VPATs, or upload to a database for tracking.

Find the JSON schema and examples in the artifacts for this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where screen readers didn't announce the currently selected left nav item (#4677)
• Fixed text spacing clipping the left nav menu in assessment (#4644)
• Fixed an issue where ad-hoc color visualizer didn't work on body elements background (#4728)

Welcome to the September 27, 2021 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Bug Fixes

• Addressed issues where a selected navigation item in left navigation menu was not announced to screen readers (#4677)
• Accessibility Insights for Android now uses Electron 14.0.0 and leverages playwright for its end-to-end tests.

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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