Releases: microsoft/accessibility-insights-web
Accessibility Insights for Android v2020.518.7
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 v2020.505.5
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
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.18.2
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
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.17.0
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:
Accessibility Insights for Android v2020.422.21
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
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.16.0
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
Accessibility Insights for Web 2.15.0
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 v2020.306.3
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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v2.14.1
January 28th 2020 Release [v2.14.1]
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
v2.13.1
January 6th 2020 Release [v2.13.1]
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: