WCAG 2.1

[TanjaKleut]

Hello,

do you have plans to update Koa11y to WCAG 2.1?

Thanks a lot for this program :)
Tanja

[TheJaredWilcurt]

I had a group of people meeting weekly to work on this, and with that many people we ended up planning a more robust, redesigned version for Koa11y 4. But that group disbanded a long time ago, and the redesign, although great in theory, is a lot of work for just me to do in practice. The underlying engine that Koa11y runs on is Pa11y. Koa11y 3 uses Pa11y 4 which only supports WCAG 2.0. For Koa11y to support WCAG 2.1 we would need to update to Pa11y 5, which is a lot more work than just bumping a version number in our dependencies. It's work we had intended to do in Koa11y 4, but again, it's a lot of work.

I'm in the process of working on a newer project, a lot of which is me solving architectural patterns for how to build desktop apps like this better/easier in the future. So perhaps once I get all the kinks worked out in that system I can come back to Koa11y with some more powerful tools that will help with the heavy lifting.

[TanjaKleut]

Many thanks for your answer. I understand your reasons.
Nevertheless, I hope that the Koa11y project will continue because I think it is a good tool, but the risk is that it will become obsolete which is a pity for the work that was done until now.
Best regards,
Tanja

[hollsk]

Hey there! I just wanted to say that it's possible that you might get WCAG 2.1 rules without updating to Pa11y 5. ☺️

Pa11y Dashboard still relies on Pa11y 4, so although we're not actively adding new features to Pa11y 4, we are still maintaining it, and we don't have a date for when we'll stop doing that. The HTML_Codesniffer team are working on adding WCAG 2.1 to their rulesets, so once that's released, we can integrate it into Pa11y 5 and Pa11y 4 simultaneously, and then it'll be available to Koa11y on the 4.x branch. We don't yet know when that will be, though.

[vv-aaugustin]

Any updates on this being able to support WCAG 2.1 ?