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 There is limited support for JSDOM. We will attempt to make all rules compatible with JSDOM but where this is not possible, we recommend turning those rules off. Currently the `color-contrast` rule is known not to work with JSDOM.
 
+We can only support environments where features are either natively supported or polyfilled correctly.
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 ## The Accessibility Rules
 
 The complete list of rules run by axe-core can be found in [doc/rule-descriptions.md](./doc/rule-descriptions.md).