AI Changelog

New Features

Accessibility Rules: A new rule ensures that summary elements have an accessible name, enhancing the clarity and usability of content for assistive technologies.

Accessibility Rules: Improvements allow aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes on descendants of widgets, ensuring better accessibility compliance in complex UI structures.
Accessibility Rules: The rule for aria-allowed-attr now permits aria-multiline=false on elements with contenteditable, improving compatibility with Safari's accessibility announcements.
Accessibility Rules: The aria-allowed-attr rule now allows aria-required=false in specific contexts, providing more nuanced feedback for developers.
Accessibility Rules: The autocomplete-valid rule is updated to handle invalid but safe values, reducing false positives in accessibility checks.

Fix incomplete handling of aria-valuetext on sliders, allowing it as an alternative to aria-valuenow, which enhances the accessibility of slider components.
Fix the landmark-unique rule to correctly treat aside elements as landmarks, aligning with the latest HTML accessibility specifications.
Fix flakiness in the all-rules test on Firefox, ensuring consistent results by addressing issues with animated elements.
Fix the aria-roledescription rule to remain disabled when using runOnly: 'wcag2a', preventing unintended accessibility violations from deprecated rules.

Standardize rule descriptions to start with the imperative 'Ensure', making them clearer and more consistent for users.

Accessibility Rules: A new rule ensures that summary elements have an accessible name, enhancing the clarity and usability of content for assistive technologies.

Accessibility Rules: Improvements allow aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes on descendants of widgets, ensuring better accessibility compliance in complex UI structures.
Accessibility Rules: The rule for aria-allowed-attr now permits aria-multiline=false on elements with contenteditable, improving compatibility with Safari's accessibility announcements.
Accessibility Rules: The aria-allowed-attr rule now allows aria-required=false in specific contexts, providing more nuanced feedback for developers.
Accessibility Rules: The autocomplete-valid rule is updated to handle invalid but safe values, reducing false positives in accessibility checks.

Fix incomplete handling of aria-valuetext on sliders, allowing it as an alternative to aria-valuenow, which enhances the accessibility of slider components.
Fix the landmark-unique rule to correctly treat aside elements as landmarks, aligning with the latest HTML accessibility specifications.
Fix flakiness in the all-rules test on Firefox, ensuring consistent results by addressing issues with animated elements.
Fix the aria-roledescription rule to remain disabled when using runOnly: 'wcag2a', preventing unintended accessibility violations from deprecated rules.

Standardize rule descriptions to start with the imperative 'Ensure', making them clearer and more consistent for users.