Accessibility Audit Plugin v1.8.0

Audit-quality release

This release implements the repository Audit Quality Contract v1.1.0 (AQ1–AQ19) and strengthens the full audit pipeline from collection through reporting.

Improvements

• Evidence provenance and canonical-result integrity validation
• Failure isolation with no fabricated fallback findings
• Structured, configurable keyboard and task journeys
• Lossless finding consolidation and deterministic output
• HTML, workbook, CSV, JSON, and SARIF renderers derived from the validated canonical result
• Improved report presentation, severity treatment, and data integrity
• Complete accountability for every WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criterion

Verified release baseline

The tagged release passed linting, type checks, 36 Audit Quality Contract tests, unit tests, browser tests, built CLI and GitHub Action tests, marketplace validation, package validation, and two matching live BuggyLand audits.

BuggyLand baseline: 4 URLs across 3 viewports; 31 confirmed failures, 36 review candidates, 1 blocker, 68 total findings, and 485 evidence rows. Both release runs produced the same result.

Important scope boundary

This is a high-quality automated pre-audit and evidence workflow, not an automatic WCAG conformance certificate. Criteria that require human judgement or real assistive-technology evaluation remain explicitly unresolved until reviewed by a qualified person.

See the Audit Quality Contract.