Releases: microsoft/accessibility-insights-web
Accessibility Insights for Web v2.36.1
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.36.1
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:
Contributors
Assets 2
Accessibility Insights for Web v2.35.0
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.35.0
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 v2.34.1
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.34.1
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:
Contributors
Assets 2
Accessibility Insights for Android 2022.706.1
Welcome to the July 7th, 2022 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
Install Accessibility Insights for Android
Accessibility Insights for Android
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 v2.32.0
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.32.0
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:
Contributors
Assets 2
Accessibility Insights for Android v2022.411.12
Welcome to the April 15, 2022 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
Install Accessibility Insights for Android
Accessibility Insights for Android
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:
Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io
Android is a trademark of Google LLC.
Contributors
Assets 2
Accessibility Insights for Web v2.31.1
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.31.1
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 (#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 (#4901, #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)
Accessibility Insights for Android v2022.308.5
Welcome to the March 9, 2022 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Accessibility Insights for Android
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 v2.30.1
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.30.1
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 v2.29.0
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.29.0
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.