Accessibility Insights for Android v2021.924.1

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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Accessibility Insights for Android v2021.826.1

Welcome to the August 26th, 2021 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

Improving connection to the Accessibility Insights for Android Service

We have changed our communication protocol and we no longer need to do port forwarding; it is now easier to connect to your Android device or emulator!

Bug Fixes

• Addressed issues with High Contrast themes in the pill counters and other SVG icons (#4500, #4508)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web v2.28.0

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.28.0

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Welcome to the August 28th release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Color Contrast Recommendations

Did you fail the color-contrast rule but are not sure what color meets contrast?
We have added a color-contrast recommendation to the rule that will recommend 1-2 colors close to your original color! (PR #4360)

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.3.2

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.3.2 (PR #4591). As part of this update, we have made one rule change:

• Scrollable-region-focusable is now a needs-review rule instead of an automated checks rule.

Check the axe-core release notes for more details.

Bug Fixes

• Addressed issues with High Contrast themes in the cancel button, pill counters and other SVG icons (#4281, #4262, #4326 )
• Fixed a couple of typos (#4446, #4426)
• Fixed an issue where ad-hoc headings visualization was failing (#4311)

Thank you!

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

• MinT team from Green River College @banne001

Accessibility Insights for Android v2021.714.15

Welcome to the July 15th, 2021 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

Added new rules from Google's Accessibility Test Framework for Android

We now run 8 rules from the Accessibility Test Framework for Android and display them in the Needs Review test with relevant how to test information. The new rules are:

• ClassName
• ClickableLinks
• DuplicateClickableBounds
• DuplicateSpeakableText
• ImageContrastCheck
• LinkPurposeUnclear
• RedundantDescription
• TextContrast
• TraversalOrder

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web v2.27.0

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.27.0

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Welcome to the June 2nd Release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Save and Load Assessment

You can now save and load an in-progress assessment at any time! We have added functionality to save an assessment into your computer and load it at another time or on another computer. This was one of the most upvoted feature requests in our repository (#653) and will enable users to do multiple assessments, share an in-progress assessment, or edit assessments when needed.

Bug fixes

• Telemetry checkbox now renders properly in high contrast mode using Edge. (#4274)
• Some of the keyboard shortcuts for Accessibility Insights for Web conflicted with existing system shortcuts on both Mac and Windows. To resolve this we have changed the shortcuts and updated our documentation (#4294)

Accessibility Insights for Web v2.26.1

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.26.1

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Welcome to the May 24th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.2.1

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.2.1. This update includes 4 false-positive fixes.

Check the axe-core release notes for more details.

Bug fixes

• Accessibility Insights for Web will now respect operating system High Contrast settings in Chrome (previously, this only worked in Microsoft Edge) (#4253)
• Visual helper highlight boxes now respect operating system High Contrast mode settings more consistently (#4253)
• Improved usability of the error message when trying to copy failure details from an http (as opposed to https) page (#4234, #4170)
• Fixed an issue where the telemetry opt-in prompt could be cut off in certain versions of Chrome and Microsoft Edge (#4189)
• Corrected typos in Assessment "Info and Examples" content for Custom Widgets > Keyboard interaction and Repetitive Content > Consistent identification (#4179)

Thank you!

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

• @aaronaleixander
• @kennyzhen13

Accessibility Insights for Android v2021.518.3

Welcome to the May 19th, 2021 release of Accessibility Insights for Android
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Highlights

Friendly device name

• We now display the user-friendly device name instead of the model code, in the setup process and the report (#4088 &#4175)

Bug Fixes

• Improve the user flow for when a device is disconnected after the setup process(#3938)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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Accessibility Insights for Web v2.26.0

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.26.0

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Welcome to the April 30th Release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

Rules engine update to axe-core 4.2

We have updated our rules engine to axe-core 4.2. This update includes 8 false-positive fixes, 1 false-negative fix, 2 new rules and 2 rule changes.

New rules

• frame-focusable-content (WCAG 2.1.1) ensures <frame> and <iframe>elements with negativetabindex` do not have focusable content.
• nested-interactive (WCAG 4.1.2) ensures that certain interactive controls don’t have focusable descendants.

Rule changes

• bypass is now a needs review rule instead of an automated checks rule.
• duplicate-id has been removed from the automated checks list of rules. Users can still test WCAG 4.1.1 Parsing in Assessment.

Check the axe-core release notes for more details.

Thank you!

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

• @codeofdusk
• @tohmjudson-ms

Accessibility Insights for Web v2.25.0

Accessibility Insights for Web 2.25.0

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Welcome to the April 21st Release of Accessibility Insights for Web!

Highlights

FastPass Needs Review test is no longer behind preview feature flag

FastPass now always includes three steps, including Needs Review (#4124), which shows instances from a few inconclusive and experimental checks and provides instructions on how to test if it's a failure or not. FastPass also includes step progress text (e.g. "Step 1 of 3") for each test (#4123) to improve the discoverability of Tabstops and Needs Review

Adaptable content > Text spacing requirement is now assisted

The Text Spacing requirement now includes a visual helper instead of directing users to test using an external bookmarklet. (#3836)

Bug fixes

• Improved performance for redrawing visualizations on pages with iframes (#4095)
• Updated xmldom package dependency to remove vulnerability (#4114)
• Removed broken link from failure instances panel (#4098)
• Removed extraneous quotes from the message displayed when the target page has changed (#4035)
• Updated exported Assessment report date to reflect current date (#4080)

Thank you!

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

• @Shobhit1

Accessibility Insights for Android v2021.414.9

Welcome to the April 22, 2021 release of Accessibility Insights for Android

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Bug Fix

• Fixed telemetry for tab stops (#4115)

Learn more about Accessibility Insights for Android at accessibilityinsights.io

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