Accessibility Insights for Web v2.44.0

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 (#7378)
• Fixed the headings are tagged with role="none" in assessment and Adhoc tools. (#7362)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.43.0

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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(#5840)
• The aria-required-children rule flags child elements that are not in the accessibility tree as needing to be removed (#7273)

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.42.0

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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 (#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 (#7264)
• Failure instance visual helper checkbox in issues table does not correctly update aria-checked/checked when it is toggled (#7264)
• In High contrast aquatic mode focus is not visible properly for "Arrow and + (add a failure instance)" button (#7260)
• No links to needs-review doc pages? (#7133)
• Update WCAG 2.1 AA references to include WCAG 2.2 AA (#7223)

Accessibility Insights for Web v2.41.0

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 v2.40.0

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 v2.39.0

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 (#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 v2.38.1

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 v2.37.3

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 (#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)

Accessibility Insights for Android 2023.109.3

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 (#6140)
• Added reflow functionality in the card footer buttons instead of always showing a 'more actions' button (#5966)
• Fixed reflowable card footer buttons (#5852)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web v2.36.1

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