Release Notes - OnDemand Suite

Dec 8, 2024 Release

New Features

• Added CSS code snippets to reports
• Cascade support for @layer rules
• Improved spell checking

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome/Edge 132, FF 133
• Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2024, JAWS 2024, macOS 14 and iOS 17
• Updated to October 2024 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to November 2024 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.55

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

Nov 17, 2024 Release

New Features

• Updated Scan Options Links and Reports tabs to match Mac/Windows desktop

Oct 26, 2024 Release

New Features

• Added HTML code snippets to reports
• Improved text analysis

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome/Edge 130, FF 131, Safari 18, Opera 114
• Updated to September 2024 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to September 2024 CSS Validator
• Updates to ARIA 1.2 rules
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.54

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

July 15, 2024 Release

New Features

• Added support for :state() and :popover-open selectors
• Added support for CSS Text Module Level 4 properties
• Improved positioning of issues in source view
• Added thumbnails of site start page

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 127, Edge 127, Firefox 128, Opera 111
• Updated to May 2024 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to June 2024 CSS Validator
• Updated to March 2024 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.53

Fixes

• Fixed robots.txt processing of /core/*.css?
• Take account of CSS pseudo elements in contrast calculations
• Out of memory on large sites with many HTTP errors
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

May 7, 2024 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS calc() support
• Improved ARIA role calculation for table headers

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 124, Edge 124, Firefox 124, Opera 109
• Updated to March 2024 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to February 2024 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.52

Fixes

• Fixed robots.txt processing of /core/*.css?
• Take account of CSS pseudo elements in contrast calculations
• Out of memory on large sites with many HTTP errors
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

December 20, 2023 Release

New Features

• Now checks iframe srcdoc contents
• Improved background image text contrast detection
• Improved CSS support

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 120, Edge 120, Firefox 120, Opera 105
• Updated to November 2023 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to September 2023 URL Standard
• Updated user agent stylesheet to match November 2023 HTML Living Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.51

Fixes

• Make DOM tree for unclosed formatting elements match browser DOM instead of W3 validator
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

October 5, 2023 Release

New Features

• Added support for WCAG 2.2 (use Edit Scan to set WCAG version and level)
• Updated relative luminance per WCAG 2.1 Errata https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/errata/
• Detect text contrast against background images
• Updated report appearance
• Improved CSS support

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 118, Edge 118, Firefox 118, Opera 102 and Safari 17
• Updated to September 2023 HTML 5 Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.50

Fixes

• Ignore meta redirects inside noscript
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

June 17, 2023 Release

New Features

• Updated spelling dictionaries
• Added support for additional CSS properties and at-rules

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 114, Edge 114, Firefox 114, Opera 99
• Updated to May 2023 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to May 2023 CSS Validator
• Updated to May 2023 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.49

Fixes

• Improved text classification of links in French, German, Italian and Spanish
• Fix parsing of vue.js colon prefixed attributes like :aria-expanded
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

March 12, 2023 Release

New Features

• Added color samples next to rgb() values in reports
• Further improvements to rule performance
• Improved accessible name calculation for SVG elements

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 111, Edge 111, Firefox 111, Opera 96
• Updated to March 2023 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to March 2023 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.48

Fixes

• Fixed CSS var() replacement at end of minimized blocks
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

January 21, 2023 Release

New Features

• Updated User-Agent to match Chrome/Edge

December 30, 2022 Release

New Features

• Improved detection of event handlers
• Rules run 2x faster on large pages
• Further updates for ARIA 1.2

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 108, Edge 108, Firefox 108, Opera 93, Safari 16
• Updated to December 2022 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to December 2022 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.47

Fixes

• Fixed cascading HTML validation errors when sub-trees contain nested invalid elements
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

September 26, 2022 Release

New Features

• Handle CSS variable substitutions like rgba( var(--rgb) var(--alpha) )
• Handle CSS variable substitutions in shorthand properties
• Rules run around 10% faster on large pages
• CSS runs much faster on large pages

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 105, Edge 105, Firefox 104, Opera 90, Safari 15.6
• Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2022, JAWS 2022, macOS 12.5 and iOS 15.6
• Updated to September 2022 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to September 2022 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.46

Fixes

• Fixed focus style match for body:focus-within button
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

July 10, 2022 Release

New Features

• IE11 browser compatibility checks turned off by default now that IE11 is end-of-life on Windows 10
• Screen reader compatibility checks for IE11 removed
• CSS validation support for :has() relative selectors, content-visibility: and @media horizontal-viewport-segments and @media vertical-viewport-segments

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 103, Edge 103, Firefox 101, Opera 88, Safari 15.4
• Updated to June 2022 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to June 2022 CSS Validator
• Updated to May 2022 URL Standard
• Updates for ARIA 1.2 Candidate Recommendation
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.45

Fixes

• Fixed leak with inherited CSS custom properties
• Fixed "This issue was found on another 1 pages" appearing unexpectedly in reports
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

April 12, 2022 Release

New Features

• Added CSS support for @layer rules

Rule Changes

• UUpdated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 100, Edge 100, Firefox 99, Opera 85
• Updated to March 2022 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to March 2022 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.44

Fixes

• Aligned robots.txt processing with Googlebot and latest IETF draft
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

January 15, 2022 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS support :focus-within, :focus-visible, rex, rcap, rch, ric length units

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 96, Edge 96, Firefox 95, Opera 82
• Updated to December 2021 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to December 2021 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.43

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

November 12, 2021 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS support including hwb(), lab() and lch() colors
• Updated spelling dictionaries

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 95, Edge 95, Firefox 93, Opera 80, Safari 15
• Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2021, JAWS 2021, macOS 11.5 and iOS 14.7
• Updated to October 2021 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to October 2021 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.42

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

August 29, 2021 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS performance
• Updated spelling dictionaries

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 92, Edge 92, Opera 77 and Firefox 90
• Updated ARIA checks to ARIA in HTML Candidate Recommendation
• Updated to July 2021 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to June 2021 CSS Validator
• Updated to July 2021 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.41

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

March 16, 2021 Release

New Features

• Renamed map styles to match desktop app

February 14, 2021 Release

New Features

• Replaced RTF export with DOCX export
• Redesigned report inventory page
• Removed SWF support due to Flash reaching end-of-life on Dec 31, 2020

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 88, Edge 88, Opera 73 and Firefox 84
• Updated to January 2021 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to January 2021 CSS Validator
• Removed obsolete WCAG 1.0, Section 508 (2000) options
• Removed obsolete Privacy rules and BlackBerry compatibility checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 6.40

Fixes

• Improved accessible description calculation
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

November 8, 2020 Release

New Features

• Added support for placeholder attribute in accessible name calculation

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Safari 14, Chrome 86, Edge 86, Firefox 82 and Opera 72
• Updated to October 2020 HTML 5 Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.39

Fixes

• Fixed out of memory issue affecting some sites
• Handle deprecated HTML5 encodings like Windows-1252
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

August 17, 2020 Release

New Features

• Implemented presentational hint support for CSS
• Align user agent stylesheet with HTML Standard
• Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
• Improved detection of links with duplicate labels
• Android compatibility reporting now uses Chromium WebView version numbering

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 84, Edge 84 (Chromium), Firefox 78 and Opera 69
• Updated to July 2020 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to July 2020 CSS Validator
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.38

Fixes

• Adding a link block for a single resource on a CDN sometimes blocked all resources on the CDN
• CSS class selector didn't always match class attribute with multiple similar names (.daterange didn't match class='daterange-suffix daterange')
• Replaced LibTidy with custom pretty printer to fix mangled DOM HTML
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

May 30, 2020 Release

New Features

• Additional ACT Rules
• Link extraction from sitemap.xml
• Improved link extraction from DOM
• Implement ARIA presentational role conflict resolution
• Updated text classifier
• Updated spelling dictionaries

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 81, Edge 81 (Chromium), Firefox 76 and Opera 68
• Updated to May 2020 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to March 2020 CSS Validator
• Updated to April 2020 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.37

Fixes

• Empty elements were sometimes dropped from the DOM view
• Wrong ID displayed for second ID error on page
• Wrong attribute value displayed for second attribute value error for same attribute on page
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

January 31, 2020 Release

New Features

• Added support for ACT Rules
• Defaults to checking WCAG 2.1 instead of WCAG 2.0

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 79, Edge 79 (Chromium), Firefox 72 and Opera 66
• Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2019, JAWS 2019, macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.4
• Updated to January 2020 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to January 2020 CSS Validator
• Updated to November 2019 URL Standard
• Updated SEO rules to Jan 2020 Google Webmaster Guidelines
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.36

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

October 31, 2019 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS engine performance
• Add Media Queries 4 range syntax: @media screen and(10px < width < 1000px)
• Add alpha channel support to CSS contrast calculations
• Improved Accessible Name calculation

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 77, Firefox 69 and Safari 13
• Updated to October 2019 HTML 5 Validator checks
• Updated to October 2019 CSS Validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.35

Fixes

• Bring robots.txt processing into alignment with draft RFC
• Fixed missing data in CSV exports
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

July 31, 2019 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS engine error handling
• Improved CSS engine charset support
• Added CSS engine support for :any-link and :lang() selectors

Rule Changes

• Updated browser compatibility checks to Chrome 75 and Firefox 68
• Updated to July 2019 HTML 5 Validator
• Updated to July 2019 CSS validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.34

Fixes

• Exporting RTF report failed when broken links contained specific characters
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

June 6, 2019 Release

New Features

• Redesigned UX for Sitemaps
• Improved CSS engine performance

Rule Changes

• Updated screen reader compatibility checks to NVDA 2018, JAWS 2018 and no longer checks WindowEyes (product discontinued)
• Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 74, Firefox 66 and Opera 60
• Updated to April 2019 HTML 5 Validator (W3 and WHATWG validators are now identical)
• Updated to April 2019 CSS validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.33

Fixes

• Scanning Flash SWF is disabled by default in preparation for Flash end of life in 2020
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

February 14, 2019 Release

New Features

• Improved message formatting
• Improved CSS engine performance
• CSS media query support

Rule Changes

• Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 71, Firefox 64, Opera 57 and Edge 18
• Updated to January 2019 HTML 5 Validator (W3 and WHATWG validators are now identical)
• Updated to December 2018 CSS validator checks
• Updated to December 2018 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.32

Fixes

• PDFs created by Chrome weren't being scanned
• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

November 18, 2018 Release

New Features

• Improved CSS engine implements full CSS cascade
• Improved DOM snapshots
• New accessibility rules for Word documents
• Defaults to checking latest version of Safari on macOS

Rule Changes

• Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 70, Firefox 63, iOS 12, Opera 55 and Safari 12
• Updated to October 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
• Updated to October 2018 CSS validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.31

Fixes

• Various stability fixes and performance improvements

August 8, 2018 Release

New Features

• Added support for WCAG 2.1
• Added screen reader compatibility tests for JAWS, NVDA and Voiceover
• Improved placeholder text detection
• Defaults to checking IE11 instead of IE9, IE10 and IE11

Rule Changes

• Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 68, Edge 17, Firefox 61 and Opera 54
• Updated to July 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
• Updated to July 2018 CSS validator checks
• Updated to July 2018 URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.30

Fixes

• Various stability fixes

May 15, 2018 Release

• Show recent scans on home page
• Added visible to team and me only sharing options
• Better MIME sniffing when Content-Type header missing
• Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 66, Firefox 60 and Opera 51
• Updated to March 2018 HTML 5 validator checks
• Updated to March 2018 CSS validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.29
• Handle invalid UTF-8 sequences in Chinese PDF documents
• Missed some text-node only DOM changes
• Various stability fixes

December 31, 2017 Release

• Redesigned CSS parser with improved CSS level 3 support
• Updated compatibility checks to Chrome 63, Firefox 58, Opera 49 and Edge 16
• Updated to December 2017 version of URL Standard
• Updated to December 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.28
• Various stability fixes

October 3, 2017 Release

• Enhancements to report appearance and improved issue details
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 56, Chrome 61, Opera 47, Safari 11 and iOS 11
• Updated to August 2017 version of URL Standard
• Updated to September 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.27
• Improved scan performance
• Improved display of URLs in Arabic and Hebrew
• Aligned robots.txt processing with Google's robots.txt specification
• Better speech output in VoiceOver
• Various stability fixes

July 31, 2017 Release

• Detect animated PNGs and WebP images
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 54, Chrome 59, Opera 45
• Updated to June 2017 version of URL Standard
• Updated to June 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.26
• Better detection of duplicate pages
• Various stability fixes

Apr 28, 2017 Release

• Added support for Section 508 Refresh
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 53, Chrome 58, Opera 44, Edge 15
• Updated to March 2017 HTML 5 validator checks
• Updated to March 2017 version of URL Standard
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.25
• Various performance enhancements
• Various stability fixes

Dec 29, 2016 Release

• Updated compatibility checks to Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 51, Chrome 55, Opera 41
• Updated to October 2016 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
• Updated to December 2016 HTML 5 validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.24
• Various performance enhancements
• Various stability fixes

Sept 6, 2016 Release

• Better Source View of minified files
• Additional CSS3 support
• Privacy rules disabled by default
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 49, Chrome 53, Opera 40, Safari 10 and Edge 14
• Updated to September 2016 HTML 5 validator checks
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.23
• Various stability fixes

July 6, 2016 Release

• Changed default for Internet Explorer compatibility from IE 7.0 to IE 8.0
• Improved appearance of printed reports
• Reduced memory requirements on large sites
• Much faster scanning large PDFs
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 47, Chrome 51 and Opera 37
• Updated to June 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.6.29)
• See full list of changed rules in engine 5.22
• Various stability fixes

Apr 3, 2016 Release

• Faster starting scans
• Minor tweaks to report UI
• Support spellcheck HTML attribute
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 46, Chrome 49 and Opera 36
• Updated to March 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.3.3)
• Updated to March 2016 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.21
• Blocked links were ignored for 301 and 302 redirects
• Various stability fixes

Jan 26, 2016 Release

• Parse external SVG images
• Minor tweaks to report UI
• Further implementation of Matterhorn Protocol
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 44, Chrome 47, Opera 34 and Edge 13
• Updated to January 2016 HTML 5 validator checks (VNU 16.1.1)
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.20
• Stopped bogus DOM changes and CSS warnings appearing inside SVG element
• Was unable to scan pages that returned '201 Created' HTTP code instead of '200 OK'
• Handle regex literal / division operator ambiguity in JavaScript parser
• Handle name spaced attributes in HTML 5
• Fix issue with CSS cascade in DOM
• Various stability fixes

Oct 5, 2015 Release

• Updated spelling dictionaries for English and French
• More reporting of user impact for screen reader problems
• Initial implementation of Matterhorn Protocol
• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 41, Chrome 45, Opera 32, Safari 9 and Edge
• Updated to September 2015 HTML 5 validator checks
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.10
• Problem extracting links from pages with invalid HEAD section
• Cancelling a scan on a large site could take a long time
• Fixed spell check issue inside NOFRAMES
• Didn't detect missing ALT for some types of PDF graphics
• Wasn't able to scan when starting from an Angular #routing URL
• Reduced memory consumption on sites with lots of W3 validation errors

Aug 30, 2015 Release

• Fixed formatting problems on /Reports pages
• Fixed scrolling problem on /Reports pages

July 4, 2015 Release

• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 39, Chrome 43, Opera 30
• Updated benchmarks to latest data
• Better help if site is blocked due to robots.txt
• Removed bogus characters that appeared when Excel CSV reports opened in Excel for Mac
• Fixed problem with some JavaScript links being case folded
• Fixed hex entity handling in links
• HTML5: Fixed problem with validation on pages with deeply nested DIVs
• HTML5: The CS language code (Czech) was incorrectly reported as deprecated
• HTML5: Treat role attribute as space separated list of ARIA roles
• HTML5: Fix problem validating camel case SVG attributes like viewBox
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.9

April 26, 2015 Release

• Now works better on small screen devices
• Better feedback if user has queued multiple scans

March 30, 2015 Release

• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 37, Chrome 41, Opera 28
• Updated to February 2015 version of Techniques for WCAG 2.0
• Updated to November 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
• Added more information to the Issue Report and Link Report Excel exports
• Redirected pages display redirected URL instead of original URL
• Improvements handling AngularJS sites
• SVG elements incorrectly flagged as invalid in HTML5 doctype
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.8

Dec 30, 2014 Release

• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 35, Chrome 39, Opera 26 and Safari 8
• Updated to November 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
• Fixed issue extracting links from some invalid HTML files
• Treat http://www.example.com and http://www.example.com:80 as same site, but http://www.example.com:888 as different site
• Fixed problem scanning some PDFs
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.7

Sep 27, 2014 Release

• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 32, Chrome 37, Opera 24 and iOS8
• Updated to September 2014 version of Techniques and Failures for WCAG 2.0
• Updated to August 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
• Added support for Angular.js routing and Backbone/Angular/Mustache templates
• Added picker for choosing browser version for compatibility rules
• Increased password strength requirements
• Fix: fixed problem checking corrupt PDFs
• Fix: fixed problem checking deeply nested HTML5 files
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.6

May 23, 2014 Release

• Updated compatibility checks to Firefox 29, Chrome 35 and Opera 21
• Updated to April 2014 version of Techniques and Failures for WCAG 2.0
• Updated to April 2014 HTML 5 validator checks
• Spell check meta descriptions and titles
• Improved detection of DOM changes
• Fix: Failed to detect broken links in Word 97-2003 .DOCs saved by Word 2010
• Fix: Fixed hang loading .ICO files with non-standard MIME types
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.5

Mar 24, 2014 Release

• Added "Create a Sitemap" option to Home page scan form

Feb 27, 2014 Release

• Added change history - list of changes made to scans, users and other settings

Dec 31, 2013 Release

• Update compatibility checks to IE 11, Safari 7, Firefox 26, Chrome 31 and Opera 17
• Updated to December 2013 HTML 5 validator checks
• Fix: Incorrect DOM changes applied inside TABLEs without TBODYs using XHTML 1.0 or 1.1 DOCTYPEs
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.4

Nov 30, 2013 Release

• User interface improvements including graphs of scan history
• Added button to stop running scans
• Increased maximum size of URLs from 1024 to 2048 characters
• Fixed issue that meant some custom spellings couldn't be added

Oct 26, 2013 Release

• Minor user interface enhancements

Sep 20, 2013 Release

• Update compatibility checks to iOS7, Firefox 24 and Chrome 29
• Updated to Sept 2013 HTML 5 validator checks
• Updated to Sept 2013 Techniques for WCAG2
• Improved RTF export formatting in wider range of word processors
• Much faster scanning some sites that were very slow to scan in previous versions
• Added support for PDF updates contained in XRefStms
• Treat robots.txt 401s and 403s the same as 404s
• Problem detecting broken links on sites that alias /page-name to /page-name/ and redirect from one to the other
• Fixed several problems scanning DOM
• Fixed crash scanning corrupt Excel and MP3 files
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.3

Jun 22, 2013 Release

• Added Administrator, Standard and Read Only user types

May 29, 2013 Release

• Update compatibility checks to Firefox 21 and Chrome 27
• Updated to May 2013 HTML5 validator checks
• Updated to April 2013 edition of Usability.gov guidelines
• Accessibility problems that only appear in specific browsers, now say which browsers are affected
• Stats displayed in dashboard no longer affected by "pages shown for each issue" limit
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.2

Mar 2, 2013 Release

• Fix for occasional problems during trial signup
• WCAG 1.0 disabled by default for new customers, and accessibility guideline chooser reworked

Feb 23, 2013 Release

• Fix: CreateUser sometimes failed for customers with custom password requirements
• Fix: Generic error message was displayed when Scan button on home page clicked before entering a URL
• Fix: Deleting all scan history made URL vanish from scans list if URL didn't have any scans scheduled

Feb 2, 2013 Release

• Update compatibility checks to Firefox 19 and Chrome 24
• Added "What was Tested" tab to report
• Updated search engine rules
• Updated HTML 5.0 validation to December 2012 Candidate Recommendation
• Fix: Links with query parameters sometimes not extracted correctly from PDF files
• Fix: Performance enhancements scanning large documents
• Fix: Crash scanning corrupt PDFs and PowerPoint files
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.1

Dec 23, 2012 Release

• Better help for new users
• Added sort options to Scans page
• Added version picker to Browser Compatibility tab on Edit Scan page
• Fixed units problem for Max Page Weight
• Minor changes to layout

Nov 10, 2012 Release

• Update compatibility checks to IE10, Firefox 16, Chrome 22, iOS6, Safari 6, Opera 12
• Compliance tab is now labeled Privacy to reflect the issues it reports
• Detect changes made to pages by JavaScript
• Added HTML 5.0 standards validation
• See list of changed rules in scanner v5.0

Oct 4, 2012 Release

• Added HTML 5.0 standards validation

June 9, 2012 Release

• Detect bogus rel=canonical links (bogus canonical links can cause massive loss of search traffic)
• Excel exports include multiple line numbers, rather than just the first line number a problem occurred on
• Added Excel Inventory report export (available for reports generated after June 9, 2012)
• Added support for Chrome 20 and Firefox 14
• The compatibility report summary counted disabled rules as failures
• Fixed poor performance scanning PDFs with hundreds of pages
• Don't warn about vendor specific tags now included in HTML5 draft
• Restrict deprecated rules to the HTML version they're deprecated in (some items deprecated in HTML4 are no longer deprecated in HTML5)
• See list of changed rules in scanner v4.7

April 22, 2012 Release

• Fixed problems caused by cookie blockers, and improved error messages when required cookies are blocked

March 17, 2012 Release

• Added new release notifier
• Improved scan report layout
• Fixed several exceptions

March 3, 2012 Release

• Updated W3 DTDs to match validator.w3.org (pulls in fix for usemap in XHTML 1.1 Second Edition)
• Added compatibility checks for Firefox 9, 10, 11 and Chrome 16, 17 versions
• Fix: don't detect broken anchors in non-standard CSS e.g. behavior:url(#default#savefavorite)
• Fix: various false positives
• Fix: false negative: didn't detect empty headings
• Fix: false negative: <A ONCLICK> with no HREF cannot be operated from keyboard
• See list of changed rules scanner v4.6

February 18, 2012 Release

• Fixed yellow error screen when clicking links to logged off account

February 4, 2012 Release

• Enabled 30 day trial
• Added PowerMapper OnDemand beta
• Reworked schedule date UI
• Localized date/time formats (set preferred format through My Settings)

November 17, 2011 Release

• Added compatibility rules for iOS5, plus recent Firefox and Chrome versions
• Replaced 'rule id' column with 'guidelines' column in Issue Report - Excel (rule id was an internal identifier)
• Word RTF report displayed current date instead of date report exported
• Links with invalid URL schemes weren't reported as broken (e.g. "hhttpp://example.com")
• Fixed problem where some URLs were displayed double encoded
• Added timeouts to WHOIS lookups (was slowing down some scans)
• Fixed false positives
• See list of changed rules scanner v4.5

November 5, 2011 Release

• Progress bar now updates dynamically during scans
• Added options to Edit Scan for report limits, external links and link following
• Fixed exception that occurred when files were deleted during a server virus scan

October 2, 2011 Release

• Better error message when clicking old scan notification email with link to deleted scan

September 25, 2011 Release

• Export reports to Word RTF and Excel CSV (not available for scans completed prior to Sep 25)
• Various user interface improvements
• Added "Ignore Capitalized" spelling option
• Fixed problem saving custom spellings

September 10, 2011 Release

• Increased page limit for weekly and monthly scans
• Reduced disk space usage for stored scans
• Wrong line numbers sometimes reported for broken anchors
• Fixed markup like <em>E</em>mphasis being reported as a spelling error

August 29, 2011 Release

• Added password reset
• Added delete scans and scan history
• Added scope option to quick scan on home page
• Added BlackBerry, Firefox 5 and Chrome 12 to browser compatibility tests
• Expand All button in reports was slow on large sites with lots of errors
• Handle pages that specify different charsets in HTTP headers and META tags
• Handle windows-1256 (Arabic) character set correctly in rules
• Fixed false positives and false negatives
• See list of changed rules scanner v4.4