Color Contrast: Improve the accuracy of color contrast checks by correctly handling nested scroll regions and ensuring proper computation of color contrast for truncated children.
Accessibility Rules: Enhance the accessibility of elements by allowing hidden labels and updating the allowed roles for specific elements, ensuring better compliance with accessibility standards.
Error Handling: Improve error handling by ensuring that checks for hidden elements and invalid ARIA attributes are more robust, preventing unnecessary errors during accessibility checks.
Native Select Value: Fix the issue where the native select value does not update correctly on change, ensuring a smoother user experience.
ARIA Attributes: Update the handling of ARIA attributes to ensure that invalid attributes are flagged correctly, enhancing the overall accessibility of web applications.
Help Text Consistency: Achieve greater consistency in help and description text across the application, making it easier for users to understand accessibility checks.
Iframe Timeout: Add an option to increase the iframe ping timeout, improving the reliability of accessibility checks in complex web applications.
NodeList Support: Allow passing a NodeList to ElementContext, enhancing the flexibility of the accessibility engine when selecting elements.
Error Message Updates: Update metadata messages for ARIA prohibited attributes to provide clearer guidance to users.
Others
Community Engagement: Add a new community project, a11y-sitechecker, to the documentation, encouraging users to explore additional resources for accessibility testing.