Releases: GovTechSG/oobee-desktop
2024-12-10 Oobee Desktop (Pre-release)
Release info
Oobee is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
This is a pre-release and may be unstable for production use.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New Features
- Assessments for text readability, non-clickables, and vague alt text
Bug fixes
- Resolves blank white screen issue when scanning more than approximately 1,500 pages
2024-11-13 Oobee Desktop
Release info
Oobee is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Bug fixes
- Upgrade axe-core to 4.10.2
- Resolve early termination of Oobee node process
2024-10-25 Oobee Desktop
Release info
Oobee is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Rename to Oobee
2024-10-16 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Support large scan by increasing heap memory to 6GB limit
Improvements
- Reduce errors when crawler encounter non-HTML document
- Reduce verbosity when MIME check fails
- More robust handling of redirected URLs
- Preparation for rename to Oobee
2024-09-11 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Waits for DOM mutations on page load before scanning to account for onload accessibility fixes
Improvements
- Resolves a rare instance where crawler causes browser to crash
- Under the hood code refactors
2024-08-30 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
Features
- Check for confusing or vague image alt text
Improvements
- Crawling on certain sites for clickable elements
- Screenshots for VeraPDF WCAG PDF scans
- Transition release to Oobee Desktop
Bug fixes
- Report HTML WCAG Success Criteria count
- Incompatibility with VeraPDF version with validation profile 2.6
- Fix signing binaries on MacOS
- Bump dependencies
- Browser, Playwright, web crawler issues
- Report does not render when malformed custom flow screenshot filepath
- Issue installing napi-rs/canvas on x64 Mac
2024-06-06 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- Migration to TypeScript
- Custom Flow 2.0 is now Custom Flow
- Removal of original Custom Flow (record and playback)
Improvements
- Enhancements for Clicking Elements for Links
Bug fixes
- Sitemap scan issues
2024-07-16 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- Local file scan toggle and browse file
Improvements
- Check for duplicate urls in crawlers
- Remove outdated references to WCAG 2.1 SC 4.1.1
Bug fixes
- Incorporate bug fixes with axe-core 4.9.1
2024-06-21 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- WCAG 2.2 update which includes axe target-size check
- Scan local files file://
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for and selectors and here
- JSON scan results are now stored in scanDetails.csv with data in base64 encoding
Improvements
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for more selectors
- TypeScript migration
- Clean up results folder to store just reports
- Remove utms in URL to prevent duplicate URL from being scanned
Bug fixes
- Handle pages that does not support full page screenshot in custom flow
- Handle recursive sitemaps
- Stop attempting element screenshots in Custom Flow to speed up scan when page cannot be screenshot
- Minor bug fixes in report.html
- Update dependencies
2024-06-20 Purple A11y Desktop
Release info
Purple A11y is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. The setup files can be downloaded under Assets at the bottom of the page.
Installation Guide
- Refer to the Installation Guide for Windows and Mac.
What's New
New features
- WCAG 2.2 update which includes axe target-size check
- Scan local files file://. Working on MacOS at the moment.
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for and selectors and here
- JSON scan results are now stored in scanDetails.csv with data in base64 encoding
Improvements
- Custom enqueue links by clicking elements with support for more selectors
- TypeScript migration
- Clean up results folder to store just reports
- Remove utms in URL to prevent duplicate URL from being scanned
Bug fixes
- Handle pages that does not support full page screenshot in custom flow
- Handle recursive sitemaps
- Stop attempting element screenshots in Custom Flow to speed up scan when page cannot be screenshot
- Minor bug fixes in report.html