Application changes made in the last year
For all application changes in the last 3 years see the extended change log.
For changes to our browser extension see the extension change log.
4th May 2024 - v18.0.0
- Major code and library updates for smaller downloads and faster performance
- Deprecated items removed:
- The Embedded version
- The old (pre-17.0) report format
- ARIA test improvements, and pre-release support for ARIA 1.3
- Tests updated in line with official specifications:
- HTML5 Living Standard updated to 29 April 2024
- WAI-ARIA 1.3 updated to 23 January 2024
- ARIA in HTML updated to 30 April 2024
- Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.2 updated to 29 April 2024
- HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 updated to 18 April 2024
- CSS Box Model Module Level 3 updated to 11 April 2024
- CSS Box Model Module Level 4 updated to 1 April 2024
- CSS View Transitions Module Level 1 updated to 28 March 2024
- CSS Properties and Values API Level 1 updated to 26 March 2024
- Pointer Events Level 3 updated to 26 March 2024
- CSS Anchor Positioning updated to 26 March 2024
- CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 updated to 22 March 2024
- Compositing and Blending Level 1 updated to 21 March 2024
- CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 updated to 12 March 2024
- CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 updated to 11 March 2024
- CSS Text Module Level 4 updated to 19 February 2024
- CSS Color Module Level 4 updated to 13 February 2024
- CSS Fonts Module Level 5 updated to 6 February 2024
- CSS Fonts Module Level 4 updated to 1 February 2024
- CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module updated to 25 January 2024
- Bug Fixes:
- Ascii art algorithm corrected
- The detailed description of W885 was misleading
- Application failure when testing local pages containing links with
href=""
6th January 2024 - v17.4.0
- Support for WCAG 2.2, which is now the default
- Changes to WCAG 2.1 mean that the
Do 4.1.1
option and SC 4.1.1 tests have been removed - The next release (v18.0, due May 2024) will see some deprecated items removed:
- The Embedded version
- The old (pre-17.0) report format
- Also note that our extensions will now only work with v17.1.0 or later
- Report improvements:
- Support for macOS Sonoma
- Accessibility test updates and improvements
- Tests updated in line with official specifications:
- HTML5 Living Standard updated to 24 December 2023
- WCAG 2.2 updated to 05 October 2023
- WCAG 2.1 updated to 21 September 2023
- ARIA in HTML updated to 21 December 2023
- HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 updated to 04 December 2023
- Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2 updated to 02 November 2023
- CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 updated to 19 December 2023
- CSS Images Module Level 3 updated to 18 December 2023
- CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 updated to 18 December 2023
- CSS Text Module Level 4 updated to 20 October 2023
- CSS Paged Media Module Level 3 updated to 14 September 2023
- CSS View Transitions Module Level 1 updated to 5 September 2023
- CSS Text Module Level 3 updated to 3 September 2023
- Bug Fixes:
- When spelling mistakes were corrected, the results were not dynamically updated
style
attributes with functions within functions caused false E703 (mismatched parentheses) errors
2nd September 2023 - v17.3.0
- The 32-bit Windows Pro version is now only available for download on demand. This is the last release that will support 32-bit Windows.
- Accessibility test updates and improvements
- Tests updated in line with official specifications:
- HTML5 Living Standard updated to 29 August 2023
- ARIA in HTML updated to 27 August 2023
- HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 updated to 25 August 2023
- Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2 updated to 25 August 2023
- WCAG 2.2 (PR) updated to 20 July 2023
- WAI-ARIA 1.2 updated to 06 June 2023
- CSS View Transitions Module Level 1 updated to 3 August 2023
- CSS Anchor Positioning updated to 29 June 2023
- Scroll-driven Animations updated to 6 June 2023
- CSS Animations Level 2 updated to 2 June 2023
- CSS Containment Module Level 3 updated to 18 August 2022
- Bug Fixes:
- Further CSS
@media
fixes with nested parentheses - Issue E9603 was only reported on the first
<iframe>
on a page with this problem - The
<script> type
attribute did not allow the full range of valid values
- Further CSS
6th May 2023 - v17.2.0
- Accessibility testing validated as consistent with all approved and many proposed ACT Rules
- WCAG 2.2 (CR) and WCAG 2.0 can now be selected for accessibility testing. Note that selecting WCAG 2.2 does not invoke any extra tests at this time.
- New option to test for SC 4.1.1 when running WCAG 2.2 tests for parity with WCAG 2.1
- Now accepts and performs testing on Custom Elements
- With Validate DOM: Any open Shadow DOM is now attached to the DOM for testing
- Nested
<iframe> srcdocs
are now validated - Several new accessibility tests and improvements to existing tests added
- Updated list of User Agents. To apply the updates use the R button on the
Edit Agents
dialog - Tests updated in line with official specifications:
- HTML5 Living Standard updated to 28 April 2023
- HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 updated to 03 May 2023
- WAI-ARIA 1.2 updated to 28 March 2023
- ARIA in HTML updated to 24 March 2023
- WCAG 2.2 (CR) updated to 25 January 2023
- CSS Box Model Module Level 3 updated to 6 April 2023
- CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 updated to 6 April 2023
- CSS Positioned Layout Module Level 3 updated to 3 April 2023
- CSS Inline Layout Module Level 3 updated to 1 April 2023
- CSS Display Module Level 3 updated to 30 March 2023
- CSS Text Module Level 4 updated to 29 March 2023
- CSS Overflow Module Level 3 updated to 29 March 2023
- CSS Overflow Module Level 4 updated to 21 March 2023
- CSS Animations Level 1 updated to 2 March 2023
- CSS Box Alignment Module Level 3 updated to 17 February 2023
- CSS Images Module Level 4 updated to 17 February 2023
- CSS Speech Module Level 1 updated to 14 February 2023
- CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 updated to 14 February 2023
- CSS Text Module Level 3 updated to 13 February 2023
- CSS Easing Functions Level 1 updated to 13 February 2023
- Bug Fixes:
- Application could fail with
<iframe> srcdoc
containing<meta>
withcontent
attribute - Application could fail with absolute paths to missing files in the Start page
- CSS
@media
with nested parentheses were not dealt with properly - Issue E6882 was miscategorised as a WCAG21 error instead of a HTML error
- Using a CI version with an incompatible browser extension would try to display a dialog linking to the Pro version download, even on headless systems
- In some error situations the CI version would fail to stop
- In certain cases the CI version would cache the previous values of options
- Application could fail with