Accessibility Rules: Introduce a new WCAG 2.2 target-size rule that better handles rounding errors and ensures minimum sizes are accurately reported. This enhances the accessibility of interactive elements on your site.
Accessibility Rules: Enable the link-in-text-block rule by default, ensuring that links within text blocks are visually distinguishable from surrounding text, improving user navigation.
Accessibility Rules: Add a new meta-refresh-no-exceptions rule, which is a WCAG 2 AAA variant that ensures compliance without allowing exceptions, enhancing user experience for those relying on accessibility standards.
Accessibility Rules: Add a new aria-required-children check that ensures all required children are present, improving the robustness of ARIA implementations.
Accessibility Rules: Introduce a new rule for aria-busy checks, ensuring that elements correctly indicate their loading state, which is crucial for assistive technologies.
Accessibility Rules: Update the frame-title rule to remove the WCAG 2.4.1 tag, clarifying that missing frame titles are not a failure if other navigation mechanisms are present.
Improvements
Accessibility Rules: Improve the messages reported by the list and definition-list checks, making it easier for developers to understand and fix issues related to invalid child roles.
Accessibility Rules: Enhance the color-contrast rule to correctly determine color contrast for overlapping elements, ensuring better compliance with accessibility standards.
Accessibility Rules: Update the aria-hidden-focus rule to provide clearer guidance and descriptions, helping developers understand how to implement it correctly.
Fixes
Fix issues with the is-hidden-for-everyone rule by ensuring it counts elements inside closed details as hidden, improving the accuracy of visibility checks.
Fix the color-contrast-enhanced rule to avoid duplicates with the color-contrast rule, streamlining the accessibility checks and reducing confusion.
Fix the valid-lang rule to ignore lang attributes on elements without text, ensuring that accessibility checks are more accurate and relevant.
Fix the frame-title rule to return incomplete for presentational iframes with empty titles, ensuring that accessibility checks are more accurate.
Others
Deprecate support for Internet Explorer 11, streamlining the codebase and focusing on modern browser compatibility, which enhances overall performance and security.
Deprecate the sri-history.json file, simplifying the project and removing unnecessary complexity for users.