Issues

• is the table-duplicate-name still accurate?

  deprecationquestionrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5430 · Filter by author scottaohara opened on Oct 1, 2026
  2

• label-content-name-mismatch: split words by language (ACT step 4) so CJK labels without spaces are found

  fixlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5420 · Filter by author chutchins25 opened on Sep 28, 2026
  4

  

• color-contrast: shortTextContent and emptyValue override the actual incomplete reason when colors cannot be determined

  info needed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5413 · Filter by author cinja opened on Sep 25, 2026
  4

• aria-required-children does not resolved the role which set with ElementInternals

  extension
  dequelabs/axe-core#5409 · Filter by author woody-li opened on Sep 24, 2026
  3

• Test target-size performance and fix any problems

  performancetarget-size
  dequelabs/axe-core#5389 · Filter by author straker opened on Sep 22, 2026 · Axe-core next
  2

• Update checks to use testutils.getCheckEvaluate helper to prevent not having needed messages

  tech debt
  dequelabs/axe-core#5375 · Filter by author straker opened on Sep 16, 2026
  2

• color-contrast rule applied when colors not set by author

  color contrastfixrulesungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5356 · Filter by author aardrian opened on Sep 10, 2026
  2

• False positive: scrollable-region-focusable ignores scroll chaining from focusable elements inside iframes

  fixrulesscrollable-region-focusable
  dequelabs/axe-core#5352 · Filter by author a11ya11y opened on Sep 9, 2026
  1

• aria-required-parent false positive for native <option role="option"> inside <select>

  fixrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5351 · Filter by author jnurthen opened on Sep 9, 2026
  3

• 4.13.0 - regresion on color-contrast detection on disabled state elements

  info needed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5341 · Filter by author rsi21 opened on Sep 3, 2026
  1

• Support unicode character categories

  tech debt
  dequelabs/axe-core#5340 · Filter by author straker opened on Sep 2, 2026

• Support label-content-name-mismatch Technique F96 failure

  false negativefeatlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5339 · Filter by author straker opened on Sep 2, 2026
  1

• Cache common element computations on vNode

  performancetarget-size
  dequelabs/axe-core#5327 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Aug 25, 2026 · Axe-core next
  4

• Why aren't deterministic RGAA tests (8.1.1/8.1.2, 10.1.1/10.1.2) reported?

  info neededquestion
  dequelabs/axe-core#5317 · Filter by author azizChebbi opened on Aug 19, 2026
  3

• Customizable <select>'s button and selectedcontent are not treated as inert, causing false button-name violations

  fixrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5315 · Filter by author ItsMeSousuke opened on Aug 18, 2026 · Axe-core 4.14

• Should we remove the implicit role from summary?

  standards
  dequelabs/axe-core#5282 · Filter by author straker opened on Aug 4, 2026 · Axe-core next
  1

• ARIA 1.2 deprecated some aria attributes from global use

  standards
  dequelabs/axe-core#5281 · Filter by author straker opened on Aug 4, 2026 · Axe-core next

• Report when aria-attr is case sensitive and user uses mixed/upper case

  rules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5280 · Filter by author straker opened on Aug 4, 2026

• [EPIC] Properly implement the accessibility tree with owned elements

  Epic
  Epic

  dequelabs/axe-core#5278 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Aug 3, 2026
  

• @import stylesheets are fetched from a wrong URL, which causes a 404 and a silently wrong css-orientation-lock result

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5268 · Filter by author jsakamoto opened on Jul 30, 2026

• feat(matches): replace hasAccessibleName matcher with a re-entrancy-safe hasNameFromAuthor

  feat
  dequelabs/axe-core#5263 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Jul 28, 2026 · Axe-core next

• isModalOpen() false negative on decorative background causes landmark-one-main to pass

  commonsfalse negativerules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5258 · Filter by author gameroman opened on Jul 26, 2026
  1

• [EPIC] Take label-content-name-mismatch out of experimental

  Epiclabel-content-name-mismatch
  dequelabs/axe-core#5226 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Jul 21, 2026 · Axe-core 4.14
  

• [EPIC] Get target-size ready to be enabled by default

  Epictarget-size
  dequelabs/axe-core#5225 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Jul 21, 2026 · Axe-core next
  

• Update getAccessibleRefs to support elementInternals

  elementInternalsfeat
  dequelabs/axe-core#5222 · Filter by author straker opened on Jul 20, 2026 · Axe-core next