8.0.0 (2024-03-25)

Pa11y 8 makes the latest version of Puppeteer (22) available to Pa11y and updates several other dependencies.

Changes in pa11y@8

• Major dependency changes
  • Upgrade puppeteer to 22 from 20
    • This may affect Pa11y's operating system support and the behaviour of Pa11y's browser automation.
  • Upgrade commander to 12 from 11
  • Remove dependency p-timeout
    • This will only affect users who had depended on p-timeout's presence as a side effect of installing Pa11y.
• Minor dependency changes:
  • Upgrade semver to 7.6 from 7.5

Many thanks to @aarongoldenthal for contributing these dependency upgrades to Pa11y.

Full diff for pa11y@8

• 7.0.0...8.0.0

7.0.0 (2024-01-16)

Changes in pa11y@7

• Breaking: Upgrade Node.js support: Pa11y 7 requires a stable (even-numbered) Node.js version of 18 or above
• Breaking: Upgrade dependency puppeteer to 20 from 9: this may affect Pa11y's operating system support and the behaviour of Pa11y's browser automation
• Breaking: Upgrade dependency commander to 11 from 8
• Breaking: Upgrade dependency bfj to 8 from 7
• Upgrade axe-core to ~4.8.2 from ~4.2.1
• Support versions of Ubuntu above 20.04 without further configuration (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Increase confidence in macOS and Windows support (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Fix mistakes in documentation about runners (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Update stale links in documentation (thanks @gavinr)
• Update support policy

New contributors in pa11y@7

• @gavinr made their first contribution
• @danyalaytekin made their first contribution

Full diff for pa11y@7

• 6.2.3...7.0.0

6.2.3 (2022-04-11)

• Revert console logging behaviour which was still causing problems on some sites.

6.2.2 (2022-04-08)

• Fix a crash when a page logs a warning or an error.

6.2.1 (2022-04-07)

• Fix a circular reference error when parsing the console logs. Thanks @alycia-docusign for reporting the issue and @jefflward for suggesting a fix.

6.2.0 (2022-03-31)

• Replace hogan.js with mustache in the HTML reporter (thanks @wit-0-bit)
• Increase verbosity of actions when debug is enabled (thanks @m1rp)
• Several documentation fixes (thanks @gabalafou, @manuelmeister, @LorenzoAncora)

6.1.1 (2021-11-17)

• Add clear-field action (thanks @amprew)
• Fix html reporter and reporter integration tests (thanks @aarongoldenthal)

6.1.0 (2021-11-09)

• The axe runner now supports the same error level flags as the HTML_CodeSniffer runner.
• Add ignore-rules section to axe runner config
• Improve the logic to detect local files passed as an argument (thanks @kkoskelin)
• Increase default timeout from 30 to 60 seconds (thanks @m1rp)
• Update documentation to mention WCAG 2.1 instead of WCAG 2.0 when appropriate
• Remove all mentions to Section 508 from the tool
• Merge the example HTML reporter into this repo
• Update dependencies
• Downgrade package-lock.json file to v1 for compatibility with older versions of npm.

6.0.1 (2021-06-28)

• Merge axe and htmlcs runners into repo
• --environment flag now shows pa11y version correctly (thanks @aarongoldenthal)
• Tests and dependency fixes for runners and reporters (thanks @aarongoldenthal)

6.0.0 (2021-05-26)

• Test against WCAG 2.1 rules when using the default HTML_CodeSniffer runner.
• Upgrade puppeteer to v9, which reduces the number of browser crashes significantly.
• Remove support for testing against Section 508 standard.
• Replace make commands for testing with npm scripts (thanks @sonniesedge and @paazmaya).
• Integrate the built-in reporters with the pa11y repo (thanks @joeyciechanowicz).
• Improve resilience of tests and other quality of life improvements (thanks @sangitamane).
• Improve --environment output (thanks @ryhinchey).
• Drop support for Node.js versions older than 12.