axe DevTools HTML API/CLI 4.2

Release Date: June 23, 2021

Overview

Axe DevTools 4.2 includes updates to Usage Service, a new axe-core version, and a new node integration with Playwright.

What's New

• Updated axe-core version
  axe DevTools 4.2 comes by default with the latest axe-core version, v4.2.1. For more information on axe-core 4.2.1, see the axe-core changelog.

• Added support for event v2 inteface in Deque's Usage Service
  Users of axe DevTools can now set numerous additional usage service-related parameters through environment variables.

Environment Variable	Type
AXE_IS_LOGGED_IN	Boolean
AXE_KEYCLOAK_ID	String
AXE_USER_ID	String
AXE_SESSION_ID	String
AXE_USER_STATUS	String
AXE_USER_JOB_ROLE	String
AXE_DISTINCT_ID	String
AXE_IS_DEV_INSTANCE	Boolean
AXE_ORGANIZATION	String
AXE_APPLICATION	String
AXE_METRICS_URL	String
AXE_TRACK_USAGE	Boolean

• Added support for axe DevTools Integration with Playwright
  It includes all the standard features for axe DevTools JavaScript-based APIs but integrates with the rapidly popularizing Playwright end to end testing framework.

• Added the ability for axe DevTools Maven HTML packages to disable scanning in iframes.

• Added support for axe DevTools pip 4.2 a new function that allows users to transpose their results to a JSON object directly.

Bug Fixes

• In axe DevTools NuGet, Maven HTML, and pip, a bug was fixed which prevented enabling best practice rules.

• Two bugs were also fixed in the axe DevTools CLI.

  • Verbose mode in CLI spec mode now correctly outputs verbose results.
  • Errors consistent with expected behaviours are now output when invalid tags are used in CLI spec mode.

Known Issues

• Axe DevTools Cypress is still not bundled by default.
• axe DevTools Cypress requires a cypress.json file with empty objects {} at the project root level to function correctly.