pour-engine 1.42.0 → 1.42.1

package/config/project.config.js

@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
 export default {
   engine: {
     name: 'pour engine',
-    version: '1.42.0',
+    version: '1.42.1',
   },
 };

package/engine/COVERAGE.md

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ meaning that only a person can settle, even where a rule decides most real pages
 
 | SC | Name | Level | Coverage | Rules |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| 4.1.2 | [Name, Role, Value](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/name-role-value.html) | A | Partially automated | input-image-alt, form-label, link-name, aria-allowed-attr, aria-attr-valid, aria-field-name, aria-hidden-focus, aria-label-misuse, aria-valid-refs, button-name, composite-widget-name, dialog-name, frame-title, invoker-target, label-for-valid, nested-interactive, role-required-aria, summary-name, valid-role |
+| 4.1.2 | [Name, Role, Value](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/name-role-value.html) | A | Partially automated | input-image-alt, form-label, link-name, aria-allowed-attr, aria-attr-valid, aria-field-name, aria-hidden-focus, aria-label-misuse, aria-valid-refs, button-name, composite-widget-name, frame-title, invoker-target, label-for-valid, nested-interactive, role-required-aria, summary-name, valid-role |
 | 4.1.3 | [Status Messages](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/status-messages.html) | AA | Manual review | — |
 
 **Totals:** 51 partially automated · 35 manual — with 98 rules.

package/engine/rules/{wcag/4.1.2-dialog-name.js → best-practice/dialog-name.js}

@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-// WCAG SC 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (Level A)
-// ARIA 1.2 marks dialog/alertdialog as name-required roles, and dialogs are
-// NOT name-from-content — the body text is the dialog's content, never its
-// name. An open, unnamed modal announces as just "dialog", leaving
-// screen-reader users with no idea what interrupted them (cookie-consent
-// modals are the canonical offender).
+// A dialog with no accessible name is announced as just "dialog". ARIA 1.2
+// requires authors to name one, but WCAG 4.1.2 is written for user interface
+// components, defined as controls, and a dialog is a container of controls
+// whose own names 4.1.2 already covers. So the pattern is an ARIA authoring
+// failure, not a WCAG one: demoted from 4.1.2 to best practice on 2026-09-13
+// after rnib.org.uk's unnamed cookie banner was challenged.
 import { labelledByName } from '../../lib/accessible-name.js';
 
 export default {
   id: 'dialog-name',
   name: 'Dialog names',
   impact: 'serious',
-  tags: ['wcag2a', 'wcag412'],
-  help: 'Dialogs must have an accessible name',
-  helpUrl: 'https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/name-role-value.html',
+  tags: ['best-practice'],
+  help: 'Dialogs should have an accessible name',
+  helpUrl: 'https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/dialog-modal/',
   // Default visibility filter: a closed <dialog> is display:none, so only
   // dialogs the user can actually encounter are judged.
   selector: 'dialog, [role="dialog"], [role="alertdialog"]',

package/engine/rules/index.js

@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ import scrollableRegionFocusable from './wcag/2.1.1-scrollable-region-focusable.
 import tableHeaders from './wcag/1.3.1-table-headers.js';
 import contrastEnhanced from './wcag/1.4.6-contrast-enhanced.js';
 import targetSizeEnhanced from './wcag/2.5.5-target-size-enhanced.js';
-import dialogName from './wcag/4.1.2-dialog-name.js';
+// Demoted to best-practice 2026-09-13: ARIA requires a dialog name, but 4.1.2
+// covers controls and a dialog is their container (see the rule file).
+import dialogName from './best-practice/dialog-name.js';
 import controlContrast from './wcag/1.4.3-control-contrast.js';
 import nonTextContrast from './wcag/1.4.11-non-text-contrast.js';
 import textSpacing from './wcag/1.4.12-text-spacing.js';

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "pour-engine",
-  "version": "1.42.0",
+  "version": "1.42.1",
   "description": "Accessibility (WCAG 2.2) audit engine written from the W3C specifications — runs entirely in the browser, no dependencies.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "engine/index.js",