WDN Meeting Agenda

WDN Shared Gov Board Update

• Welcome any new hires and intro to HipChat
• 2017 Elections
  • Submit name by end of day Nov 1
  • Voting Nov 8 – Dec 1
  • New board announced Tuesday, Dec 13
  • Two-year term begins Jan 1, 2017

Upcoming meetings of note

• List of presenters
• Volunteers needed: todd.jensen@unl.edu

Drupal 8 Update

• Timeline
  • 11/15/16 Internal Availability
  • 12/13/16 Testing & Development
  • 01/05/17 Top Level shared infrastructure launch, start integrating other sites beyond that
  • 03/04/17 Open for Developers
  • Summer 2017 Migration
• Form updates to prevent spamming and uploading of malicious files
• Configuration of blocked IP addresses is now handled globally
• Require user authentication or possibly add CAPTCHA to forms for additional protection
• 'Hide page title' toggle has been added to CMS
• Site cloning is now widely available

Flexbox presentation by Keith Shelley

• Brief history of web design layout: tables, floats
• "More efficient way to layout and distribute space" - Chris Coyier, CSS-Tricks
• Keith's example sites:
  • Colleges and Reporting Units
  • Current Students
  • Nationally Competitive Fellowships
  • Undergraduate Research
• Good for content choreography – change visual order of content on page without changing semantic order
• Flexbox container/containee relationship
• A review of Flexbox settings
• Vendor prefixing
• Tools
  • Autoprefixer
  • Sassmeister
• Resources
  • A Complete Guide to Flexbox
  • What the Flexbox?
  • PDF of Keith's presentation

Application Updates

• WebAudit
  • improvements to a11y library: testing aXe
  • upcoming addition - pronouns check
  • link check limited to 150
• MediaHub
  • bug fixes, searchable caption glitch
  • RSS improvements to enable MediaHub channel feed functionality
• Announce
  • fixed issue with analytics reporting

Documentation Updates

• Recent updates
• Accessibility Testing Update documentation to cover replacement of pa11y with aXe
• Webform documentation from Mike O'Connor