Investigate the accessibility rules configured in the jest-axe library.

[AtishayMsft]

Investigate the accessibility rules configured in the jest-axe library in fluent repo https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/blob/d8321c5e8191f94e9413aee0e800f96d3de8e311/package.json#L251.

Our baseline is the accessibility insights web tool which keeps on adding more rules and checks in their releases.
Refer https://github.com/microsoft/accessibility-insights-web/releases/tag/[email protected]
Are the rules in jest-axe dependency upto date.
If not, then how to update these rules to represent the current standard.

Assigned to @Shubhabrata08

[Shubhabrata08]

The repo is at 6.0.1 whereas the latest is at 8.0.0.
axe-core has been updated from 4.4.1 to 4.7.2

[Shubhabrata08]

Here are a list of changes to axe-core from v4.4.1 to v4.7.2

4.7.2 (2023-05-25)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-attr: Add 'aria-required' to switch role (#4029) (cb51be4), closes #4027
• aria-allowed-attr: allow aria-required on role=slider (#4035) (bb2bf60)
• aria-required-children: set related nodes for invalid children (#4033) (377f72b)
• tags: Add / correct several TTv5 tags (#4031) (25859dd)

4.7.1 (2023-05-15)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-attr: no inconsistent aria-checked on HTML checkboxes (#3895) (704043e)
• aria-allowed-attrs: add aria-expanded to allowed attrs for menuitemcheckbox and menuitemradio (#3994) (0f405c6)
• aria-required-children: trigger reviewEmpty with hidden children (#4012) (a19b6cb)
• color-contrast: support CSS 4 color spaces (#4020) (65621c3)
• link-in-text-block: set links with pseudo-content for review (#4005) (949f4f8)

4.7.0 (2023-04-17)

Features

• aria-roledescription: deprecate rule (#3948) (1913a9e)
• aria-roles: deprecate the ARIA directory role (#3952) (893fdd0)
• d.ts: setup/teardown, reporters & metadata definitions (#3966) (78264ee)
• deprecate bower (#3889) (651d811)
• deprecate color.filteredRectStack, color.getRectStack, and dom.visuallyContains (#3859) (3be2bad)
• dom.focusDisabled,dom.isVisibleForScreenreader: support the inert attribute (#3857) (273c971)
• metadata: add Trusted Tester tag (#3986) (1f6a2a6)
• support the dialog element (#3902) (d4522cd)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-attrs: allow aria-description and aria-braille* attrs (#3956) (2842395)
• aria-input-field-name: skip combobox popups (#3886) (3dcdd42)
• aria-required-children: allow separator in menu(bar) (#3868) (ec9f507)
• aria-required-children: do not fail for children with aria-hidden (#3949) (8714d6b)
• aria-required-children: list elements that are not allowed (#3951) (cce7586)
• autocomplete-valid: allow webauthn token (#3866) (fd3010f)
• color-contrast: correcly apply opacity to foreground color (#3973) (d7db279)
• color-contrast: correctly calculate contrast of flex/grid items with z-index (#3884) (cef96be)
• color-contrast: correctly compute background color for elements with opacity (#3944) (c051fe8), closes #3932
• color-contrast: correctly compute color contrast of elements (#3847) (4c3a00c)
• color-contrast: do not check contrast on elemets that are inerted (#3894) (da19946)
• color-contrast: skip ligature icons (#3867) (9486288)
• create-grid: correctly compute stack order for non-positioned stacking contexts (#3930) (8db2c24), closes #3932
• css-orientation-lock: support the css rotate property (#3958) (c51f8bf)
• focus-order-semantics: Add ARIA role article to list of valid roles for scrollable regions (#3927) (f029271)
• is-icon-ligature: prevent canvas2d warning willReadFrequently (#3931) (b3c52bb)
• link-in-text-block: allow links with identical colors (#3861) (5f90040)
• respondable: work with CDP Page.setDocumentContent (#3921) (66f23e5)
• scrollable-region-focusable: change impact to serious (#3959) (e3a5c21)
• scrollable-region-focusable: skip native controls (#3862) (b0bdefa)

4.6.3 (2023-01-23)

Bug Fixes

• aria-required-children: allow separator in menu(bar) (#3868) (46c9499)
• autocomplete-valid: allow webauthn token (#3866) (a3d1b9d)
• color-contrast: correctly compute color contrast of elements (#3847) (844cea1)
• color-contrast: skip ligature icons (#3867) (7dfbd9a)
• link-in-text-block: allow links with identical colors (#3861) (6761f36)
• scrollable-region-focusable: skip native controls (#3862) (aaf44e9)

4.6.2 (2022-12-23)

Bug Fixes

• color-contrast: fix color-contrast check when running in an extension (#3838) (31a3e01)

4.6.1 (2022-12-14)

Bug Fixes

• d.ts: add optional include to ContextObject (#3830) (36ed242)

4.6.0 (2022-12-12)

Features

• aria-required-attr: require aria-controls on combobox and aria-valuenow on focusable separator (#3786) (5259e88)
• checks/label-content-name-mismatch: deprecate occuranceThreshold option in favor of occurrenceThreshold to fix typo (#3782) (5026d65)
• commons: deprecate flattenShadowColors in favor of flattenColors (#3792) (af49daf)
• context: allow selecting shadow DOM nodes (#3798) (9e1e31b)
• list,listitem: do not allow group as allowed parent or child (#3784) (d1cbf6f)
• required-attr: require aria-checked for checkbox-like and radio-like roles (#3785) (563e4e9)
• utils: new shadowSelectAll utility (#3796) (5865462)

Bug Fixes

• aria-allowed-role: allow combobox on button, checkbox and combobox on input[type=button] (#3354) (ac688c0), closes #3353
• aria-required-children: allow menu as child of menu (#3820) (a6569e5)
• color-contrast: consider -webkit-text-stroke & -webkit-text-fill-color (#3791) (228daf1)
• color-contrast: correctly calculate background color of text nodes with different size than their container (#3703) (123b83c)
• get-role: handle presentation role inheritance for vnodes with no parent (#3801) (b971caf)
• html-lang-valid: only run rule when attribute has value (#3663) (1a7eecb), closes #3624
• metadata: Map aria-required-children to ACT rule bc4a75 (#3790) (a33a523)

4.5.2 (2022-11-14)

Bug Fixes

• aria-required-children: allow menu and menubar to be empty (#3770) (d11aed8)
• create-grid: include elements scrolled out of view in the grid (#3773) (a563263)
• do not warn when using webpack (#3777) (d6cef9a)
• link-in-text-block: don't match style or script text (#3775) (ab877f9)
• prevent undefined relatedNodes from halting axe (#3778) (efefb18)

4.5.1 (2022-11-01)

Bug Fixes

• allow axe to run in certain configurations of jsdom (#3755) (b74c5d4)
• prevent crash on jsdom when preloading CSSOM (#3754) (b1f0c6b)

4.5.0 (2022-10-17)

Features

Highlights

• new rule: Add WCAG 2.2 target-size rule (off by default) (#3616) (691f1b6)
• new rule: Add meta-refresh-no-exceptions (off by default, wcag2aaa) (#3530) (27031a8)
• identical-links-same-purpose: Disable by default (wcag2aaa rule) (#3615) (a2c2d2f)
• link-in-text-block: Remove experimental and enable by default (#3706) (37b6e7a)
• i18n: Add Norwegian Bokmål locale (#3375) (2886d33)
• i18n: Add Hebrew translation (#3438) (b4162ed)

Tags and Metadata Updates

Various changes of tags, for greater consistency with ACT Rules.

• area-alt: Remove the wcag111 tag (#3479) (1c3cc51)
• aria-hidden-focus: Remove the wcag131 tag (#3477) (36ace76)
• empty-table-headers: Rule is now best-practice and fails instead of incompletes (#3427) (0a4397d), closes #3404
• frame-title: Remove wcag241 tag (#3519) (9c6b828)
• input-image-alt: Add the wcag412 tag (#3478) (34272c6)
• label,select-name: Remove the sc131 tag (#3476) (7caef89)
• meta-viewport: Report as violation of wcag 1.4.4 (#3704) (6f7e4a9)
• metadata: Update ACT tags & actIds (#3498) (571722b)

Deprecations

• Deprecate Internet Explorer support (#3644) (11f5163)
• Deprecate sri-history.json file (#3646) (6f6a89e)
• Deprecate and replace dom.isVisible, utils.isHidden, and dom.isHiddenWithCss (#3351) (1ae2ac0)
• Deprecate only-dlitems-evaluate & only-listitems-evaluate methods (#3724) (322e9ed)
• Deprecate presentation-role-conflict-matchess (#3638) (0f02a15)
• Deprecate is-visible-matches, use is-visible-on-screen-matches (#3679) (738dd8f)
• Deprecate not-html-matches, use :not(html) instead (#3540) (e0010d9)

Others

• aria-roles: Permit fallback roles (#3683) (5665260)
• aria-required-children: Allow aria-busy on children (#3569) (3618f50)
• aria-required-children: Fail for children which are not listed as required (#3597) (b5ceabc)
• getRules: Return actIds when set (#3470) (a3d5cef)
• is-in-tab-order: Add isInTabOrder to commons (#3619) (77afe90), closes #3500
• list/definition-list: Only allow required owned roles (#3707) (a920d35)
• presentation-role-conflict: Test img elements with empty alt (#3717) (ea32fa7)

Bug Fixes

• utils: greatly improve the speed of querySelectorAll (#3423) (1cae5ea)
• aria-hidden-focus: Do not fail for focus trap bumper elements (#3667) (46b6658)
• aria-required-attr: aria-valuenow is no longer required for spinbutton (#3552) (a22cf56)
• aria-required-parent: Allow nested group and presentational roles (#3492) (4685270)
• aria-valid-attr-value: Report empty values as incomplete (#3635) (fff39db)
• avoid-inline-spacing: Add spacing threshold (#3533) (92add05)
• checks/no-focusable-disable: Don't count non-disableable elements as disabled (#3393) (bb8b5ca), closes #2466 #2934 #2934 #3315
• checks/unsupportedrole: Support unsupported dpub and fallback roles, add role to message (#3395) (3c0f10f), closes #2466 #2934 #2934 #3282
• color-contrast-enhanced: Avoid duplicates between color-contrast and color-contrast-enhanced (#3714) (2811f77)
• color-contrast: Correctly determine color contrast for element that exactly overlaps midpoint of node (#3565) (90de9aa)
• frame-focusable-content: don't fail for elements with negative tabindex (#3493) (94e75ac)
• frame-title-unique: Make frame-title-unique reviewOnly and WCAG412 (#3610) (8401b8e), closes #3487
• frame-title: ignore frames with negative tabindex (f61f825)
• frame-title: return incomplete for presentational iframe with empty title (#3594) (c2cfd84)
• is-hidden-for-everyone: count elements inside closed details as hidden (#3726) (e65e962)
• is-hidden-for-everyone: support content-visibility: hidden (#3690) (95cf6e7)
• is-visible-on-screen: ignore elements hidden by overflow:hidden (#3676) (2935950)
• label: avoid passing labels because of an input[value] (#3688) (54a8116)
• link-in-text-block: Update rule to match current guidance, revise tests (#3575) (edb88ed)
• meta-refresh: Add WCAG's 20-hour exception (#3525) (5beb6c3)
• no-autoplay-audio: add reviewOnFail and update tests (#3557) (60ec997)
• object-alt: ignore unloaded objects (#3680) (8e03e2c)
• page-has-heading-one,landmark-one-main: do not fail if modal is open (#3501) (c6af316)
• td-headers-attr: ignore hidden cells with headers attr (#3684) (e0403f4)
• td-headers-attr: ignore table elements with their role changed (#3687) (902d07c)
• utils.matches: fix attribute exists selector to match empty attributes (#3669) (4b768ea)
• valid-lang: ignore lang on elements with no text (#3523) (fd85f39)
• valid-lang: run on aria-hidden text (#3634) (a0860bd)
• video-caption: remove excludeHidden: false (#3554) (a3e4bbe)

4.4.3 (2022-07-13)

Bug Fixes

• axe.d.ts: updates type definition for Rule to add reviewOnFail (#3521) (afb2478)
• Continue supporting Node >=4 (#3538) (da7923b), closes #3537

4.4.2 (2022-05-12)

Bug Fixes

• aria-hidden-focusable: report incomplete with onfocus (#3407) (6755e89)
• aria-hidden-focus: Update rule help & description (#3422) (7cfb4b1)
• aria-valid-attr-value: add note about element id being in a different shadow DOM tree (#3421) (24f74df)
• color-contrast: consistently return color contrast information in the data object for pseudo elements (#3453) (1a9d95e)
• deprecatedrole,color-contrast: fix message to properly include deprecated role, improve color-contrast pass messages (#3387) (650e503)
• html-elms: update role allowances for nav element (#3402) (8aa816a), closes #3401
• standards: fix address typo in html-elms.js (#3418) (f235cc7), closes #3417

[AtishayMsft]

Issue fixed with PR# microsoft/fluentui#30309