Issues

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

  dequelabs/axe-core#5459 · Filter by author sp-kblazek opened on Oct 9, 2026

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

  ungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5458 · Filter by author sp-kblazek opened on Oct 9, 2026

• 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 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
  7

• 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
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