Ace v0.3.4

Bug Fixes

• create subdirectories when creating a new directory (ceed934)

Features

• use the new URL for DAISY’s KB (a659a9c), closes #58

Ace v0.3.3

Bug Fixes

• patch aXe to support namespaced element names (9e945b9), closes #57
• use javascript strict mode everywhere to prevent errors (b41e77b)
• wrong image paths in HTML report (1ecf40f), closes #56

Features

• use Babel to make Ace compatible with Node v6 and later (89cb1d7), closes #45
• write logs to a user directory (97d2dc9), closes #50

Ace v0.3.2

Correctly publish the fixes from v0.3.1 to npm.

Ace v0.3.1

Bug Fixes

• http: make ace-http command executable (564f695)
• don’t crash when an image is missing in the EPUB (cec84b1), closes #44
• end the JSON-LD context URL by .json (999ebe8)
• JS error in the report when assertions don’t have a pointer (e3b6917), closes #54
• multiple dc:source caused an unexpected error (c719977), closes #49
• properly set paths to media elems with sources children (4d816fe), closes #48
• various bugs in the report builder (4db2bd2), closes #53

Ace v0.3.0

This is a pre-release of Ace, the Accessibility Checker for EPUB developed by the DAISY Consortium.

Features

• CLI: improve handling of overrides to the report directory
  • by default, abort running when the directory exissts
  • add a --force option to override files
  • add a --subdir option to write the report in a subdirectory named after the EPUB
• Initial vision the an HTTP API, see documentation in the wiki
• Extract more info from HTML content
  • list additional noteworthy elements in the data section of the report (e.g. audio, video, iframes, etc)
  • add a new properties section in the report to hold informative statements on the content (e.g. hasPageBreaks, hasMathML)
• Report EPUB-specific violations as EARL assertions
  • missing title
  • missing a11y metadata
  • missing page break source
• Various improvements to the HTML report’s UX
• Add a summary of accessibility metadata
• Disable aXe’s bypass rule, which makes little sense in an EPUB context
• Support checking of unpackaged EPUBs
• Generally improved error handling
• Add integration tests

Bug fixes:

• Fix multiple issues that prevented Ace to be run concurrently, or sequentially on the same document
• Don’t hang if an error occurs during the checking of HTML Content Documents
• Fixed various knowledge base links
• Don’t choke on –and report– missing links in the knowledge base
• Prevent files to leak outside the output directory
• The HTML report now renders correctly when no violations were found

Details

See the detailed commit log

Ace v0.2.0

This is a pre-release of Ace, the Accessibility Checker for EPUB developed by the DAISY Consortium.

New

• New JSON-LD report format, using properties from W3C's Evaluation and Report Language
• New HTML report
• Include link to DAISY's accessibility knowledge base (work in progress)
• Include a visualization of various EPUB outlines (Navigation Document's ToC, headings hiererachy, and HTML outline)
• Include a list of the EPUB's images and associated descriptive text
• Include the full publication metadata set

Details

• see the detailed commit log

Instructions

Update a previous installation of Ace with:

npm update ace-core -g

Install from scratch by running (requires a Node.JS installation) with:

npm install ace-core -g

This will install the ace command in your system.

Ace v0.1.1

This is a pre-release of Ace, the Accessibility Checker for EPUB developed by the DAISY Consortium.

Fixes

• Fix a bug which caused file name conflicts when creating temporary directories for Content Documents (issue #12)

Details

• see the detailed commit log

Instructions

Update a previous installation of Ace with:

npm update ace-core -g

Install from scratch by running (requires a Node.JS installation) with:

npm install ace-core -g

This will install the ace command in your system.

Ace v0.1.0

Ace v0.1.0 is the first pre-release of the Accessibility Checker for EPUB developed by the DAISY Consortium.

• includes a basic CLI app
• extracts and parses an EPUB to load content docs
• runs aXe on the content docs (on the DOM rendered in NightmareJS/Electron)
• aggregates the results
• produces a report on the standard output or
  store it in a specified directory

Install it by running (requires a Node.JS installation)

npm install ace-core -g

This will install the ace command in your system.