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• Accessibility Checker upgraded to AccessLint Core 0.21

  2026-08-14 by Jaime Iniesta

  Rocket Validator's accessibility validation servers now run AccessLint Core 0.21. No rules were added or removed, but several rules changed how they decide a result. Your issue counts may change when you re-run a report.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Highlighter: from accessibility report to the actual element, in one click

  2026-06-22 by Jaime Iniesta

  A free Chrome extension that outlines the elements flagged in your Rocket Validator accessibility reports, reopening the audited page at the same viewport the scan used so you can see exactly what failed and where.