April 2025

Shared Governance Board update

  • Discussion of captioning videos
    • Videos are automatically captioned with Mediahub AI captions 
    • Videos will go live with AI captions automatically once they have finished 
    • Future development - Need some UI element in Mediahub manager view to denote which videos do not have reviewed and approved live captions. 
    • Future development - Mediahub will send caption reminder email immediately after video is posted and If captions have not been reviewed, Mediahub will send reminder at monthly interval 
  • Subdomain requests

Gov Board meetings are first and third Thursdays at 2 p.m. on go.unl.edu/wdn-zoom. Non-members may join as nonvoting attendees.

Slacktivity

Trying to use the Embed component to add a Mediahub Video

Rather than an Embed component, you can just add a MediaHub embed through the Text Editor pulling a video from your Media library. This can be used in any component that has a WYSIWYG editor with a Media Library button, or through the "Simple Media" component.

Can we use emojis in the text layout components and have it pass Web Audit?

Web Audit wouldn’t flag any errors related to emojis. However, the use of emojis isn’t ideal due to their variability in meaning and differences in how they are rendered across systems. They should not be used to convey primary information because they lack alt text, but could be used as supplementary emphasis to information that was already conveyed.

WebAudit Metrics

  • https://webaudit.unl.edu/groups/unl/
  • WATCH YOUR LINKS! With all sites live in the new system, some links may have changed. CMS sites have a built-in page (Reports → Top 'page not found' errors) that shows a list of URLs that users are visiting that result in Not Found being shown.

Analytics Updates

  • A heatmapping tool in our fully on-premise web analytics system, Matomo, is now available for the use of university web developers. To get a report on your site, contact Tommy Neumann or join the #analytics channel on the Web Developer Network Slack.
  • More Information in WDN Cache article

Framework updates

  • Update 5.3.55 - deploying next week
    • Added analytics event for search modal open and close
    • Update footer links
    • Add overflow-x: clip to nav menu (to fix Safari scrolling bug)
  • Beginning work on Version 6 (tentatively deploys July 8, 2025)
    • Replace Grunt with Vite
    • Replace jQuery with vanilla JavaScript
    • Replace RequireJS with JavaScript Modules
    • Use Page Transitions and Web Animation APIs
    • Redesign header and footer
    • and more...
    • Framework Roadmap

CMS updates

Features Live now

  • Content Hub: Deleted phantom Major node revisions as some nodes were reverting to previous node changes.
  • Performance Improvement: Memcache caching has been deployed. This moves a lot of Drupal’s caching from the database to memory. This should improve site editing and load speeds when logged in.
    • Coming - Step two of performance improvements: Improving Varnish cache clears that affect anonymous user page loads. (Will fix Web Audit issues of not immediately being able to run a scan after saving a page).

Pending review and deployment

  • Overlapping Components: Since cards now have a 100% height, some components in the same section as cards may experience overlapping issues. We recommend keeping all card components in the same section and move any non-card components to a different section, or place the cards in a separate section by themselves. More information can be found in the GitHub issue.
  • Broken LinkedIn Links: Once this code change is deployed, Editors must enter everything that comes after https://www.linkedin.com/ in the LinkedIn username field (Person, contact block, etc.). This approach ensures compatibility since no official list of all possible LinkedIn profile URL patterns has been found.
  • Scheduler Module: Adds the ability to schedule content for publishing and unpublishing at specified dates and times in the future.
  • URLs in Text Area (Body Field): Linking to URL aliases of internal content (e.g., /alias1/alias2/node/1) currently prevents the page from being saved. However, linking directly to the node (e.g., /node/1) works as expected. This issue should be resolved once the pending fix is merged. When linking to internal content, it's recommended to search by the page title in the link field and select the appropriate node or content/media item.
  • Edit Own Person Page: Troubleshoot and resolve the issue reported regarding the inability to edit a person page. (Related to how quickly users could click the edit button, make changes, and save the page before their temporary edit permissions were revoked.)
  • Workflow Transitions: Ensure unpublished nodes remain unpublished after saving. (Currently, saving an unpublished node can inadvertently publish it unless the Unpublished option is manually selected.)
  • Default Top and Bottom Padding Removal: Default top and bottom padding for the accordion, icon links, logo cloud, social media links, and timeline components will be removed unless other components exist within the section.

Public Information Apps Updates

  • Directory: Fix person page login. This helps for updating your avatar and viewing student emails.
  • Web Audit: Fix WDN site links.
  • Coming soon: Web accessibility validator site

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