1.5.22 - 26 Jan 2025 1.5.22 - 26 Jan 2025

1.5.22 - 26 Jan 2025

David Cowley David Cowley

This week’s patch has a slightly different focus. Many of the changes you’ll see below relate to screen-reading and keyboard navigation. After completing a third-party accessibility audit, we identified several areas where accessibility could be improved to perform better in real-world scenarios. To address these gaps, we made a concerted effort to improve the platform’s accessibility, resulting in this patch’s strong focus on usability updates.

Next patch will return to your regularly scheduled programming of new features, updates, bug fixes, as well as additional accessibility maintenance as required.

Version 1.5.22 will be rolling out on all sites from Sunday 26th, January 2025

Changes ✨ 

AR-6974 | Add consistent ARIA labelling to widget titles

We found that the screen-reading of widgets titles on the widget dashboard were not consistently descriptive. We changed all widgets to have an appropriate description for screenreaders.

AR-7043 | Icons within button components missing ARIA label

We also found that the screen-reading of icons across had a similar inconsistency. These have been updated to use consistent language, mostly affecting icon buttons.

AR-6880 | Improved the keyboard navigation for feedback forms and quizzes

We resolved a few question types with non-ideal navigation or interaction issues, so that keyboard navigation is improved.

AR-6937 | Focus pulling after catalogue modal is opened

Made an update to ensure that the focus remains in the content preview modal after content is loaded, instead of returning to the top of the page.

AR-6885 | Improved navigation focus in capability assessment process

The audio cues for navigating within capability assessment, particularly tab navigation, has been improved so that it is much clearer where the user is located on the page.

AR-7024 | Improved navigation focus on the homepage tabs

The main homepage tabs previously had focus indication that did not match contrast requirements for many custom tenancy colours. We have made an update that improves the focus to be visible, regardless of the tenancy colours.

AR-6874 | Added clearer navigation for section navigation for my learning and training history

The tabs to access the training history from the my learning page were not consistent with the rest of the system. These have been updated to reflect correct navigation conventions.

This also included improvements to the visual indicators when these tabs are in focus.

AR-6221 | Prevent catalogue cards from becoming too large under certain conditions

Content cards on the catalogue could be displayed as very tall and narrow under specific content description and screen size combinations. We've identified and resolved the cause of this unusual display problem.

AR-7026 | Change non-description div tags into article tags in the catalogue

The catalogue page has more descriptive sectioning so screenreader users can easily jump to what is important to them, and infer better meaning from the list of catalogue results.

AR-7098 | Limit cohort fields conditions to 200

Cohort user field conditions can be used to add users automatically to cohorts. The number of conditions that can be applied to each cohort is now limited to 200. This was introduced to improve the performance of calculating cohorts, creating users and running bulk user uploads.

Bug Fixes 🐞 

AR-6046 | Suspended users still showing up in reporting

Fixed an issue where certain suspended users were appearing in reports when the "Show Suspended Users" option was not enabled.

AR-6996 | Session approval history is missing.

Fixed an issue where session approval requests that also had a payment attached would not appear in the supervisors page until it has been approved. These approval requests will now always appear, regardless of payment status.

AR-7002 | Grader unable to add comments for Quiz Plus

Prevent a quiz from reaching a state where the quiz grader was unable to add comments to a user's submission.

AR-6867 | Go to current stage button did not correctly update focus

Pressing the go to current stage button in momentum would scroll the page to the correct location, but keyboard focus would remain on the button. This has been updated to match where the page moves to.

AR-6866 | Added correct alternate text to momentum application page

The momentum application page did not have correct alternate text, meaning that screenreaders could not correctly describe the element of the page. Alt text has been added.

AR-6875 | Checkbox did not have correct descriptive text for screen reader

Using the checkbox within the capability development plan did not properly describe what the user was interactive with, instead using generic description of elements. Updated descriptive text has now been included.

AR-6935 | Reduce the size of the main production bundle

The amount that users need to download on an initial load of the platform is greatly reduced, meaning that users on slow networks will be able to load the site more quickly.

 

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