Releases: GovTechSG/oobee-desktop
2024-10-16 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Support large scan by increasing heap memory to 6GB limit
Improvements
- Reduce errors when crawler encounter non-HTML document
- Reduce verbosity when MIME check fails
- More robust handling of redirected URLs
- Preparation for rename to Oobee
2024-09-11 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Waits for DOM mutations on page load before scanning to account for onload accessibility fixes
Improvements
- Resolves a rare instance where crawler causes browser to crash
- Under the hood code refactors
2024-08-30 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Check for confusing or vague image alt text
Improvements
- Crawling on certain sites for clickable elements
- Screenshots for VeraPDF WCAG PDF scans
- Transition release to Oobee Desktop
Bug fixes
- Report HTML WCAG Success Criteria count
- Incompatibility with VeraPDF version with validation profile 2.6
- Fix signing binaries on MacOS
- Bump dependencies
- Browser, Playwright, web crawler issues
- Report does not render when malformed custom flow screenshot filepath
- Issue installing napi-rs/canvas on x64 Mac
2024-06-06 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- Migration to TypeScript
- Custom Flow 2.0 is now Custom Flow
- Removal of original Custom Flow (record and playback)
Improvements
- Enhancements for Clicking Elements for Links
Bug fixes
- Sitemap scan issues
2024-07-16 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- Local file scan toggle and browse file
Improvements
- Check for duplicate urls in crawlers
- Remove outdated references to WCAG 2.1 SC 4.1.1
Bug fixes
- Incorporate bug fixes with axe-core 4.9.1
2024-06-21 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- WCAG 2.2 update which includes axe target-size check
- Scan local files file://
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for and selectors and here
- JSON scan results are now stored in scanDetails.csv with data in base64 encoding
Improvements
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for more selectors
- TypeScript migration
- Clean up results folder to store just reports
- Remove utms in URL to prevent duplicate URL from being scanned
Bug fixes
- Handle pages that does not support full page screenshot in custom flow
- Handle recursive sitemaps
- Stop attempting element screenshots in Custom Flow to speed up scan when page cannot be screenshot
- Minor bug fixes in report.html
- Update dependencies
2024-06-20 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- WCAG 2.2 update which includes axe target-size check
- Scan local files file://. Working on MacOS at the moment.
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for and selectors and here
- JSON scan results are now stored in scanDetails.csv with data in base64 encoding
Improvements
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for more selectors
- TypeScript migration
- Clean up results folder to store just reports
- Remove utms in URL to prevent duplicate URL from being scanned
Bug fixes
- Handle pages that does not support full page screenshot in custom flow
- Handle recursive sitemaps
- Stop attempting element screenshots in Custom Flow to speed up scan when page cannot be screenshot
- Minor bug fixes in report.html
2024-05-26 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- Add WCAG SCs 1.4.1, 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to percentage passes in report
- Speed up website crawls with enhanced check to evaluate page load state
- Reduce time taken to scan each page by limiting to 50 screenshots per page
Improvements
- Enhanced connectivity check for compatibility with more sites
- Increase time allowed for each page scan up from 60 to 90 seconds
- Update Crawlee 3.8.1 and Playwright to 1.44.1
- Better support for basic auth sites with special characters
2024-05-23 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Improvements
- Add WCAG SCs 1.4.1, 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to percentage passes in report
- Connection and loading issues
- Update Playwright to 1.44.0
Bug fixes
- Additional basic auth support in Website Crawl
2024-05-08 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Bug fixes
- Error generating scan report on Custom Flow 1.0