Major Feature: New updates to BrowserStack Accessibility Engine 🛠️🚀
We’re expanding your accessibility testing capabilities with a major update to our Accessibility rule engine - the backbone of our Accessibility testing Toolkit. We now cover 30+ WCAG Success criteria and have added a bunch of new rules to make accessibility testing easier, more automated, and more comprehensive.
Here's a look at what’s new:
New Rules
Without disrupting your functional testing workflows, you can now automatically test:
Images of text: Detect when images of text are used instead of actual text to convey information.
Content on 200% zoom: Check for content loss when your webpage is zoomed to 200%.
Focus visible: Ensure a visible focus indicator for keyboard navigation.
Accessible authentication: Test the accessibility of your authentication mechanisms.
Consistent identification: Verify consistent identification of links across web pages.
Consistent navigation: Ensure navigation menus are consistently located and ordered.
Meaningful image descriptions: Check the relevance and clarity of alternative text for images.
Major Enhancement
Improved Color Contrast Accuracy: Experience 50% more accurate results in color contrast checks, drastically minimizing manual reviews required for "Needs Review" cases.