Releases: GovTechSG/oobee-desktop
2025-01-16 Oobee Desktop - Test 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
- Support up to 5,000 page scans
- Prevents browser crash when opening report.html - as it now does not contain scan item details (XPath, HTML code snippet, How to Fix) when JSON data exceeds 500MB
Bug fixes
- Support for Chrome v132 changes that break headless scans
2024-12-30 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
New Features
- Assessments for text readability, non-clickables, and vague alt text
- Allow user to toggle scan for AAA rules, disable Oobee custom rules
- Shows Advanced Scan Options in Oobee scan reports
- Option to install required dependences (WMIC) on Windows during setup
Bug fixes
- Resolves blank white screen issue when scanning more than approximately 1,500 pages
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