AccessCheck Changelog¶

All notable changes to AccessCheck – Game Accessibility Auditor are recorded here.

Accessibility guidance, not certification

AccessCheck provides technical guidance and accessibility-readiness information. It does not provide legal advice, certify compliance, or replace evaluation by accessibility specialists and players with disabilities.

1.0.0 — Initial production release¶

Automated auditing¶

Added static Widget Blueprint analysis for accessible metadata, focus and navigation, and visual accessibility risks.
Added optional CommonUI-specific analysis that loads only when CommonUI is enabled.
Added built-in profiles for Quick Scan, Full Accessibility Audit, Controller & Keyboard, Screen Reader Readiness, Visual Accessibility, and Shipping Gate workflows.
Added Current Asset, Selection, Folder, Project, Content Browser, and headless commandlet scopes where applicable.

Added the Dashboard with automated readiness score, automation coverage, manual-review status, runtime summary, report status, scan details, and discovered Widget Blueprints.
Added the Issue Explorer with search, filtering, grouping, sorting, source navigation, evidence, recommendations, decisions, and history.
Added the Navigation Map for explicit, predicted, invalid, reachable, and unreachable focus paths.
Added finding lifecycle states including Open, Reopened, Resolved, Suppressed, Accepted Risk, Needs Manual Review, and Not Applicable.

Runtime and visual evidence¶

Added passive Play-In-Editor session recording for available accessible-tree, focus, geometry, input-source, and state evidence.
Added named runtime states and finalizable value-only sessions.
Added runtime visual capture, measured element crops, rendered-contrast evidence, focus pairs, navigation replay, and review previews.
Added clear capability reporting when runtime evidence is partial or unavailable.

Manual review¶

Added a profile-driven Manual Review Centre for checks that require human judgment.
Added reviewer names, progress states, confirmed decisions, risk decisions, not-applicable decisions, blocked items, notes, and evidence references.
Kept manual-review completion separate from the automated score.

Remediation and source control¶

Added Guided Fix workflows that open the most reliable source and provide practical steps.
Added one narrowly defined Safe Fix provider for accessible-name repair.
Added exact before/after preview, Unreal transactions, Undo/Redo, targeted rescan verification, source-control checks, and safe refusal reasons.

Reports, baselines, and CI¶

Added frozen report snapshots with separate automated, manual, runtime, and runtime-visual sections.
Added HTML, JSON, and CSV export.
Added project baselines and comparison classifications for new, resolved, reopened, changed, newly evaluated, no longer evaluated, and not-comparable findings.
Added the headless -run=AccessCheck Shipping Gate commandlet.
Added configurable score, coverage, severity, indeterminate, manual-review, scan-error, and baseline-regression policies.
Added stable commandlet exit codes and accesscheck_result.json output.
Added PowerShell and batch CI helper scripts.

Compatibility and privacy¶

Added support for Unreal Engine 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 5.8.
Added editor support for Windows, macOS, and Linux; Win64 binaries are prebuilt where provided, while macOS and Linux compile from source.
Confirmed editor-only operation with no packaged-game runtime dependency.
Confirmed local-only operation with no telemetry, analytics, uploads, accounts, API keys, or network requirement.

Known limitations¶

The automated score is a project-health signal, not a legal or compliance result.
Runtime evidence covers only observed sessions and states.
Visual previews are design-review aids, not medical simulations.
Indeterminate results are not passes.
AccessCheck focuses on UI accessibility risks and does not replace testing with players with disabilities.
CommonUI-specific analysis requires CommonUI to be enabled.