Issues

• color-contrast: do not return bgGradient when a gradient provably does not paint behind any of the element's text

  featungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5524 · Filter by author vkruglyakusa opened on Nov 4, 2026
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• color-contrast: a positioned float (position: relative; float: left) is sorted below its ancestors, causing a false bgOverlap incomplete

  color contrastrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5523 · Filter by author vkruglyakusa opened on Nov 4, 2026
  1

• label-content-name-mismatch should compare associated label text with the accessible name

  false negativefeatlabel-content-name-mismatchrulesungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5522 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Nov 4, 2026

• label-content-name-mismatch: text hidden with color: transparent counts as visible, so a hover-roll button's sizer and its overlay copy are joined

  fixlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5519 · Filter by author webline opened on Nov 3, 2026
  1

• label-content-name-mismatch: Turkish labels starting with a dotted capital I (U+0130) fail because the combining dot splits the word

  fixlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5512 · Filter by author ceolinwill opened on Oct 31, 2026 · Axe-core next
  1

• color-contrast reports the text of a disabled form-associated custom element

  dequelabs/axe-core#5510 · Filter by author bheston opened on Oct 31, 2026

• color-contrast silently skips some Arabic text as an icon ligature

  dequelabs/axe-core#5507 · Filter by author AlwaleedOupco opened on Oct 29, 2026

• avoid-inline-spacing misses ACT 78fd32 example when text rects overlap

  dequelabs/axe-core#5506 · Filter by author MaciejZet opened on Oct 29, 2026
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• label-content-name-mismatch: treeitem with a nested group fails because the child treeitems' text counts as its visible label

  fixhighlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5505 · Filter by author qazwsxedcrfvtgb1111 opened on Oct 28, 2026 · Axe-core next
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• color-contrast returns elmPartiallyObscured due to subpixel rounding in fullyEncompasses (Firefox/Linux)

  ungroomed
  Bug

  dequelabs/axe-core#5503 · Filter by author padmavemulapati opened on Oct 28, 2026
  1

• Why does axe defer to base element for rules when more explicit ARIA roles are set?

  questionungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5501 · Filter by author scottaohara opened on Oct 27, 2026
  3

• Make geometry fixtures deterministic and reject a busy test port

  dequelabs/axe-core#5497 · Filter by author MaciejZet opened on Oct 24, 2026

• button-name help page: a "passing characteristic" fails the rule, plus content that applies to aria-command-name

  docsungroomed
  dequelabs/axe-core#5496 · Filter by author Bohman-Timothy opened on Oct 23, 2026

• [EPIC] Label-content-name-mismatch fixes

  Epichigh
  Epic

  dequelabs/axe-core#5493 · Filter by author straker opened on Oct 21, 2026

• getRectStack checks the outer grid at the scroll region's centre, so escaped backgrounds drop out of the stack

  color contrastcorefix
  dequelabs/axe-core#5491 · Filter by author chutchins25 opened on Oct 21, 2026

• label-content-name-mismatch rule - false positive when using Angular mat-icon

  fixhighlabel-content-name-mismatchneeds discussionrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5488 · Filter by author rsi21 opened on Oct 20, 2026
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• GitHub Actions self-repository syntax for more secure Workflow composability

  ci
  dequelabs/axe-core#5487 · Filter by author danielweck opened on Oct 20, 2026
  2

• nested documents not taken into account with some landmark best practice rules

  fixrulesstandards
  dequelabs/axe-core#5485 · Filter by author scottaohara opened on Oct 19, 2026
  1

• Rule label-content-name-mismatch fails when element is aria-labelledby its own ID

  fixhighlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5475 · Filter by author colinrotherham opened on Oct 16, 2026
  3

• New best practice: label-content-name-exact checks accessible names are an exact match to visible text

  feathelp wantedrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5474 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 16, 2026
  1

• Map summary-name to ACT rule 2t702h

  dequelabs/axe-core#5470 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 15, 2026

• frame-focusable-content fails an iframe blocked by an open modal dialog

  dequelabs/axe-core#5468 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 15, 2026

• [EPIC] Modernize role computation & rule code

  Epic
  Epic

  dequelabs/axe-core#5466 · Filter by author WilcoFiers opened on Oct 14, 2026

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

  fixhighlabel-content-name-mismatchrules
  dequelabs/axe-core#5459 · Filter by author sp-kblazek opened on Oct 9, 2026
  2

• 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