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v5.5.6

Enhancements

WProofreader v2.3.3915

  • Added UI localization for the Simplified Chinese and Japanese languages.
  • Minor improvements accessibility based on the accessibility validation tools (reports).
  • The height of the section with the list of words on the Dictionaries tab is increased to 360 pixels to improve usability.

Languages Updates

1. Extended dictionaries of the Norwegian dialects:

  • Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (nn_NO)

Check the quality of spell checking for Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk at the Additional languages page.

2. New additional languages for the Asian group. This release enables the long-awaited grammar checking for two new languages from the Asian group:

  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) 
  • Japanese (ja_JP)

Check the quality of grammar checking for Simplified Chinese and Japanese at our Additional languages demo page.

3. Enabled a new grammar rule for all English dialects that catches repeated whitespaces in writing. The rule description is “Whitespace repetition (bad formatting)”.

Bug Fixes

WProofreader

  • [WP-3149] WProofreader: Highlighting of a selected language is cropped in Languages tab when using keyboard navigation
  • [WP-3153] WProofreader: Redundant ‘aria-level’ and ‘aria-expanded’ tags with empty value present in button snippets
  • [WP-3155] WProofreader: Some elements have insufficient color contrast 
  • [WP-3157] WProofreader: Invalid ARIA attribute values for ‘aria-labelledby’ tag in checkboxes, radio buttons and inputs
  • [WP-3158] WProofreader: Invalid ARIA roles used
  • [WP-3180] WProofreader: Badge disappears in iframe
  • [WP-3168] WProofreader: Actions in the badge are shifted in the expanded/active state
  • [WP-3163] WProofreader: Insufficient styles protection of elements

SCAYT plugin for CKEditor 4

  • [WP-3172] SCAYT plugin for CKEditor 4: Unsupported locale parameter ‘ru’ when browser localization is set to Russian