WebdriverIO SDK

v2.27.0 (2025-04-07)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.23.0.
• Add support for patternOverrides configuration

v2.26.0 (2025-03-30)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.22.0.

v2.25.1 (2025-03-20)

• Implement logging system.

v2.25.0 (2025-03-06)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.20.1.
• Provide configuration options for Recording service.

v2.24.0 (2025-02-12)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.19.0.

v2.23.0 (2025-02-06)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.17.0.

v2.22.3 (2025-01-24)

• Update engine initialization with license data

v2.22.2 (2025-01-06)

• Remove licence logging

v2.22.1 (2025-01-03)

• Bugfix: Licence check prior online credentials set

v2.22.0 (2025-01-02)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.13.0.

v2.21.0 (2024-12-31)

• Moved token verification from the Engine to the SDK.

v2.20.0 (2024-12-30)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.12.1.

v2.19.0 (2024-12-23)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.12.0.
• Change API mergeIssues to evMergeIssues.

v2.18.0 (2024-12-19)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.11.1

v2.17.1 (2024-12-04)

• Bugfix: Fixed screenshots support for JSON reports.

v2.17.0 (2024-12-03)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.9.2

v2.16.1 (2024-12-02)

• Bugfix: Spread provided component tester options before merging them

v2.16.0 (2024-11-21)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.8.2. Add mergeIssues API.

v2.15.1 (2024-11-05)

• Use serialization for passing data from browser

v2.15.0 (2024-11-05)

• Shadow dom feature enabled by default.

v2.14.0 (2024-10-29)

• Component Tester integration. Switching to Analysis Web Component 14.5.0

v2.13.1 (2024-10-29)

• Update type declaration to support IDE suggestions

v2.13.0 (2024-10-23)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.4.1.

v2.12.0 (2024-10-17)

• Switching to the Analysis-Web v14.3.0.

v2.11.2 (2024-10-07)

• Restrict Evinced switch off during continuous mode

v2.11.1 (2024-09-19)

• Added support for location commands

v2.11.0 (2024-09-19)

• Aggregated report added.

v2.10.0 (2024-09-11)

• WebDriver IO v9 support added.

v2.9.0 (2024-09-05)

• TypeScript support added.

v2.8.0 (2024-08-30)

• Switching to the semantic engine 13.2.0.

v2.6.0 (2024-08-12)

• Switching to the semantic engine 13.1.2.

v2.5.0 (2024-06-10)

• Switching to the semantic engine 13.1.0.

v2.4.0 (2024-05-21)

• Switching to the semantic engine 13.0.1.

v2.3.0 (2024-03-27)

• Adding Jasmine compatibility.

v2.2.1 (2024-02-27)

• Adding new options for engine configuration.

v2.2.0 (2024-02-12)

• Switching to the semantic engine 11.1.0

v2.1.0 (2024-01-24)

• Switching to the semantic engine 11.0.1

v2.0.0 (2024-01-18)

• Enabling the Ev Core functionality.

v1.21.0 (2024-01-18)

• Switching to the semantic engine 11.0.0

v1.20.0 (2023-12-26)

• Add CSV reporting

v1.19.0 (2023-12-25)

• Switching to the semantic engine 10.1.1

v1.18.0 (2023-11-23)

• Switching to the semantic engine 10.0.1

  1. Fix failure when running sdk on electron
  2. Deal with the async nature of EvCore

v1.17.0 (2023-10-17)

• Fix for missed issues on the last page after calling evStop.

v1.16.0 (2023-09-26)

• Bugfix: Authorization ERROR: Uninitialised fixed.

v1.15.0 (2023-09-15)

• Fix for running evStart and evStop from the before and after hooks.
• Switching to the semantic engine 8.3.2

v1.14.0 (2023-08-25)

• Switching to the semantic engine 8.2.0

v1.13.1 (2023-08-21)

• Bugfix for evSaveFile when screenshots are on.

v1.13.0 (2023-08-15)

• New approach of issue collection in continuous mode is implemented.

v1.12.0 (2023-08-04)

• Global Switch ON/OFF: the Evinced functionality can be switched off with a Global environment variable EV_SWITCH_ON.

v1.11.0 (2023-08-01)

• Implement the Screenshots feature to include screenshots to the reports.

v1.10.0 (2023-06-12)

• Switching to the semantic engine 8.1.0

  1. [UF] Upgrade axe version to 4.7.2 with minor bugfixes and improvements:

  • link-in-text-block Added needs review violations
  • aria-allowed-attr
  • aria-required-children
  • color-contrast

v1.9.0 (2023-05-18)

• Switching to the semantic engine 8.0.0

  1. [UF] Revisited Accessible Name false positives for elements with IDs containing special characters when shadow DOM is supported
  2. [UF] Added Support for new evCore only validation 'Meaningless Alt Text'
  3. [UF] Upgrade axe version to 4.7.0 with minor bugfixes and improvements:

  • scrollable-region-focusable changed severity level from moderate to serious
  • aria-required-children
  • color-contrast
  • link-in-text-block

v1.8.0 (2023-04-20)

• Switching to the semantic engine 7.4.0

  1. [UF] Fixed a crash when internal iframes finish loading before the main window
  2. [UF] Bugfix: Fix crashes when the Shadow DOM toggle is on

v1.7.0 (2023-03-09)

• Switching to the semantic engine 7.2.1

  • minor bugfix for SVGs at isInViewport calculation

v1.6.0 (2023-02-14)

• Switching to the semantic engine 7.2.0

  • [UF] Provide configuration to override issues' severity level. Usage:

  1CONFIG.CUSTOM_ISSUE_SEVERITY: {
  2 WRONG_SEMANTIC_ROLE: 'Low',
  3 'AXE-ARIA-ALLOWED-ROLE': 'High'
  4}

  • [UF] Provide configuration to override issue's severity names. Usage:

  1CONFIG.CUSTOM_SEVERITY_NAMES:  {
  2 CRITICAL: 'High',
  3 SERIOUS: 'High',
  4 MINOR: 'Low'
  5}

  • [UF] Upgrade axe version to 4.6.3 with minor bugfixes and improvements to:
    • link-in-text-block
    • color-contrast
    • aria-required-children
    • scrollable-region-focusable
    • autocomplete-valid

v1.5.0 (2023-01-18)

• Fix of the evSaveFile's html-reporting to make it generate reports in a unified format.
• Switch to the semantic engine 7.0.0

  • Bugfix: Provided a compatibility of html-report-generator with the Node v14 (replaceAll-method substitution).
  • [UF] upgraded AXE version to 4.5.2
    • 2 new validations were added, disabled by default: meta-refresh-no-exceptions, target-size
    • link-in-text-block is now a "regular"/"needs review" validation, and enabled by default
    • empty-table-header validation was changed from "needs review" to "best practice"
    • input-image-alt and meta-viewport are no longer best practices.
    • Deprecated Internet Explorer support

v1.4.0 (2023-01-05)

• Switching to the semantic engine version 6.0.0

  1. Delete Evinced "Broken Skip Link" validation
  2. Released a new Evinced validation: "Language Attribute Mismatch"
  3. Improved "Language Attribute Mismatch" validation
  4. Renamed "Text on Image" validation to "Text Contrast on Compound Background" and updated description
  5. Bugfix: Added disabled attribute handling

v1.3.1 (2022-12-08)

• Fix methods bindings (setCredentials, setOfflineCredentials) to Evinced object

v1.3.0 (2022-11-16)

• Added new option to the evSaveFile command for saving reports in SARIF format
• Correct default internal configuration of feature flags
• Switch to the semantic engine 4.0.0

  Ignore validations for dynamically created href (false pos)

v1.2.0 (2022-09-29)

• Switch to the semantic engine 2.1.0

  1. Added a new Evinced validation: "Unadjustable Text Spacing"
  2. Disabled AXE's "avoid-inline-spacing" validation for its False Positives rate. The issue will be covered by the new "Unadjustable Text Spacing" validation.
  3. Minor bugfix of wrong order validations algorithm.
  4. Bugfix in license check

v1.1.0 (2022-08-31)

• Switch to the semantic engine 2.0.0

  1. Introducing a new validation: missing focus indication
  2. Rename validation: from now on, focus indication will be called insufficient focus indication
  3. HTML report rebranding

v1.0.0 (2022-01-27)

Features

• Added an improved HTML report (v2)
• Added rootSelector option to analyze only a subset of the DOM
• Added filterIssues option to filter out issues from the report
• Upgrade axe version to 4.3.5
• Performance improvements

Breaking API Changes

• Changed shadow-dom selectors (use | instead of > as a delimiter between shadow-documents-layers)
• Changed selectors algorithm to be more change resistant

Bug fixes

• Fixed console warnings that occasionally occured while recording through page redirects

v0.1.0 (2021-12-12)

• Change the selector of elements
• Performance improvements
• Use axe 4.3.3

Features

• evStart/evStop track issues through page redirects
• evStop and evReport now return a list of issues instead of a report object

v0.0.2 (2021-09-09)

Features

• Simplified the API so that inject() and init() are not required to be called explicitly

Documentation

• Added usage examples