Issues

• Rule label-content-name-mismatch fails when element is aria-labelledby its own ID

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5475 · Filter by author colinrotherham opened on Oct 16, 2026
  3

• New best practice: label-content-name-exact checks accessible names are an exact match to visible text

  feathelp wantedrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5474 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 16, 2026
  1

• Map summary-name to ACT rule 2t702h

  dequelabs/axe-core#5470 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 15, 2026

• frame-focusable-content fails an iframe blocked by an open modal dialog

  dequelabs/axe-core#5468 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 15, 2026

• [EPIC] Modernize role computation & rule code

  Epic
  Epic

  dequelabs/axe-core#5466 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Content slotted into a shadow-DOM scroll container loses its scroll region in 4.14.0

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5462 · Filter by author jsfi opened on Oct 13, 2026

• label-content-name-mismatch: visible text of adjacent block elements is joined without whitespace

  fixlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5459 · Filter by author sp-kblazek opened on Oct 9, 2026
  1

• scope="COL" / scope="ROW" are ignored by Firefox and Safari, but scope-attr-valid passes them and getScope falls back to a layout guess

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5456 · Filter by author Garbee opened on Oct 9, 2026

• abstractrole and fallbackrole read role tokens without lowercasing, so role="WIDGET" passes aria-roles

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5455 · Filter by author Garbee opened on Oct 9, 2026
  1

• aria-hidden and aria-modal selectors compare values exactly, so aria-hidden="TRUE" skips aria-hidden-focus and aria-modal="TRUE" is not seen as an open modal

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5454 · Filter by author Garbee opened on Oct 9, 2026

• Selectors compare HTML attribute values case-sensitively, so rules skip type="BUTTON", http-equiv="Refresh", name="Viewport" and similar

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5453 · Filter by author Garbee opened on Oct 9, 2026

• Uppercase attribute names in selectors match nothing ([ROLE], [DATA-X])

  dequelabs/axe-core#5452 · Filter by author Garbee opened on Oct 8, 2026

• Rule selectors match role values exactly, so rules skip elements that getRole resolves (role="IMG", role=" img ")

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5450 · Filter by author Garbee opened on Oct 8, 2026
  5

• Role none/presentation will no longer allow global ARIA attrs

  standards
  dequelabs/axe-core#5449 · Filter by author straker opened on Oct 8, 2026

• Is the 'blink elements are deprecated and must not be used' rule still relevant?

  questionungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5445 · Filter by author scottaohara opened on Oct 6, 2026

• New rule: aria-current-page

  dequelabs/axe-core#5442 · Filter by author zlotnika opened on Oct 6, 2026
  2

• Consider running any checks as a .some rather than always running all of them

  featperformance
  dequelabs/axe-core#5432 · Filter by author straker opened on Oct 2, 2026
  1

• is the table-duplicate-name still accurate?

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

• 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 contrastfixrules
  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
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