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axe-core

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Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing

Last release 3 days ago
02 Oct 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 1 weeks
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 60 of the last 60 stable releases
1 version withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
11 years old
1659 releases · first in 2015

Release timeline

1659 releases since 2015

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3.5.3-canary.64318a512 May 2020pre-release
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3.5.3-canary.59125a013 May 2020pre-release
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3.5.3-canary.55b14318 Apr 2020pre-release

One column per quarter.

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3.5.29 Mar 2020Deprecated

label-content-name-mismatch: ignore non widget aria role(s) & do not use deprecated lookupTable.rolesOfType

Bug Fixes

aria-allowed-role: allow role=spinbutton on inputtype=tel
color-contrast: ignore form elements that move text outside of node using text-indent (#2044) (85cc6ab)
commons: handle node(s) contained by SVG document when de… (#2054) (bf4c9bf)
getCheckMessage: add API to return check message (#2066) (e216322)
has-lang: fail check when xml:lang is used in HTML docum… (#2053) (e07aaea)
label-content-name-mismatch: ignore non widget aria role(s) & do not use deprecated lookupTable.rolesOfType (#2022) (89bd84c)
package-lock: change @deque/doT from agora to npm (#2058) (c03c0e5)
page-has-heading-one: find screen-reader only headings (#2065) (f808a12)
region: ignore direct child text nodes of body (#2050) (fde31d0)
skip-link: identify as skip-link only if the link is offscreen (#2079) (241e1d0)
check invaildrole fails only when all roles are invalid (#2075) (989b317)
ignore empty, whitespace or undefined role for rule `ari… (#2077) (dbd3c02)
update tags for rule area-alt (#2051) (7db231f)

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3.5.2-canary.fd17b3416 Mar 2020pre-release

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3.5.2-canary.889006327 Mar 2020pre-release

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3.5.113 Feb 2020

color-contrast: parse font-weight value as number

Bug Fixes

color-contrast: parse font-weight value as number (#2031) (#2040) (0bb2166)
color-contrast: properly pass options to check (#2033) (26b99c0)
commons: avoid unicode regex encoding in axe.min.js (#2024) (ae90dc4)
sri-history: correct SRI for various versions (#2041) (940c017)

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3.5.1-canary.f476ad627 Feb 2020pre-release

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3.5.010 Feb 2020Deprecated2 sources agree

aria-label: deprecate Element arg; use virtualNode

Features

aria-dpub-role-fallback: depreacte aria-dpub-role-fallback and move into aria-allowed-role (#1899) (8e25c20)
aria-label: deprecate Element arg; use virtualNode (#1922) (d14981c)
audit: allow runOnly option to accept an array of rules (#1889) (38d6a3f)
color-contrast: greatly improve performance for very large sites (#1943) (9ea0065)
core: add preload configuration option for media files (#1958) (8a62649)
core/reporters/v1: Add failureSummary to incomplete results (#1972) (c88883d)
get-element-stack: performant api to replace document.elementsFromPoint (#1842) (9ae07fb)
i18n: add Danish (da-DK) translation (#1876) (fb6fc41)
landmark-no-duplicate-*: add rule landmark-no-duplicate-main, don't use html as element source for all duplicate rules (#1949) (5ec7894)
layout-table: deprecate layout-table rule and checks (#1885) (d22cb30)
matches: use VirtualNode and deprecate HTMLElement (#1988) (2600a06)
rule: add color-contrast check for unicode characters, behind flags. (#1969) (0cd4037), closes #1906
rule: identical-links-same-purpose (#1649) (9c73f62)
rule: no-autoplay-audio (#1946) (b2373cb)
svg-img-alt: rule for when svg needs a title (#1953) (9491e09)
deprecate the use doT.js for messages (#1938) (a2ddba3)

Bug Fixes

color-contrast: properly pass options to check (#2033) (26b99c0)
commons: avoid unicode regex encoding in axe.min.js (#2024) (ae90dc4)
add tags with dots for wcag sc (#1849) (2f1ab36)
compute orientation lock from various transformation func… (#1937) (c987de0)
ignores axe.ping responses that do not contain axe=true (26cb1fb)
input[role=button][value='correct'] should pass (#1897) (4635fef)
remove heading from list of widget roles (#1882) (a8cbf71)
link-name: test role=link when there is no href (#1921) (6db28bc)
remove isNaN check (#2010) (5359b3f)
aria-allowed-attr: allow aria-details (#1956) (79e1c58)
aria-allowed-role: allow role combobox on input tel, search, url, and email (#1850) (ba75961)
aria-hidden-focus: mark as needs review if a modal is open (#1995) (28a3553)
aria-required-children: allow comboboxes with more popup roles (#1950) (35a24c0)
aria-roles: report error for fallback roles (#1970) (a1b7e08)
aria-valid-attr-value: mark as needs review for aria-current with invalid value (#1998) (39b8eae)
axe.d.ts: RunOnly.values should not accept a RunOnlyOption (#1888) (b68aa19)
build: add lang query parameter to helpUrl when builing with a locale (#1909) (8c5f9ef)
color-contrast: improve speed and accuracy of code blocks with syntax highlighting (#2003) (1b6ab42)
color-contrast: mark as needs review for text that contains only non-BMP characters (#2005) (e559be0)
color-contrast: support IE extension context (#2008) (62e31ea)
color-contrast: take into account parent opacity for foreground color (#1902) (8719700)
getElementStack: do not add hidden elements to the stack (#1991) (759d88d)
is-focusable: use tabindex attribute instead of property (#1912) (042a148)
is-icon-ligature: ignore whitespace characters (#1908) (7d2b2a6)
is-ligature-icon: rename canvas to canvasContext (#1880) (de9885d)
isFocusable: return true for summary element and false for details element with summary child (#1957) (34ec2d7)
listitem: clarify that li elements must be contained in a list or role=list (#1894) (6d8cfee)
locales: fix incompeteMessageFallback to be a string rather than an object (#1853) (88677a9)
meta-viewport: mark as a best-practice rule instead of wcag failure (#1960) (766f962)
only-listitem: add message about invalid role on li elements (#1954) (c3049ab)
page-has-main: do not find hidden elements (#2001) (6429e60)
page-no-duplicate-main: do not fail for duplicate hidden elements (#2000) (414dfb1)
preload: reject promise axe.utils.preload when XHR fails (#2009) (b406b1f)
region: allow content in roles with implicit aria-live (#2002) (a8d829e)
region: return outermost regionless node instead of html (#1980) (8d77be2)
region-rule: allow live regions with explicit roles (#1999) (b49bd95)
run: throw error if axe.run is called after a run has started but not completed (#1914) (3252a02)
server-side-image-map: return as needs review rather than failure (#1898) (d544856)
tabindex: don't error when tabindex property is overridden (#1910) (6b82a4c)
td-has-headers: greatly improve performance of td-has-headers rule (#1887) (a550309)
removes flaky test in axe Pro api check (b2bdcd1)
typings: add proper return value to getRule (#1900) (4d907f8)
unicode: stop parsing escaped unicode strings (#1997) (7447d03)

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3.5.0-canary.c7113fc12 Feb 2020pre-release

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