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• Introducing AccessLint Core

  2026-08-03 by Jaime Iniesta

  Rocket Validator now runs AccessLint Core alongside Axe Core, as a public beta. Every page gets checked by two accessibility engines from the same crawl, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.

• Accessibility Checker upgraded to Axe Core 4.13

  2026-08-14 by Jaime Iniesta

  Rocket Validator's accessibility validation servers now run Axe Core 4.13. No rules were added or removed, but many existing rules changed, including new support for web components using Element Internals. Your issue counts may change as a result.

• Manual reviews: the accessibility checks that need a human

  2026-07-02 by Jaime Iniesta

  A new report option keeps the Axe Core checks marked as incomplete — the ones a machine can flag but can't confirm, like text over a background image — in their own Manual review tab, apart from your confirmed violations.

• Accessibility Checker upgraded to Axe Core 4.12

  2026-06-24 by Jaime Iniesta

  The accessibility validation server on Rocket Validator has been upgraded to Axe Core 4.12, which adds a new rule checking that ARIA tab elements have an accessible name, along with a number of bug fixes and improvements.

• Accessibility Checker upgraded to Axe Core 4.11.1

  2026-02-04 by Jaime Iniesta

  The accessibility validation server on Rocket Validator has been upgraded to Axe Core 4.11.1. This update fixes several false positives, which may result in a slightly lower number of reported issues, and resolves an edge-case bug where the color contrast rule could skip a page.

• Accessibility Checker upgraded to Axe Core 4.11.0

  2025-10-26 by Jaime Iniesta

  The accessibility validation server on Rocket Validator has been upgraded to Axe Core 4.11.0, which adds the French RGAA standard to many rules, and fixes some bugs found in previous versions.