WDN Shared Governance Board updates

• QA Review Subcommittee
  • Meet this Thursday to discuss how to improve the QA process. No site review.
• UX Design Subcommittee
  • Meeting Monday, April 9, 2 pm in the Garage at University Communication offices, 12th & Q to review design progress.
• Information Architecture (IA) Proposals
  • Nielsen Norman Group recommends using task-based navigation labels, avoiding audience-based labels.
  • There is more cognitive load associated with audience-based navigation.
  • Internet & Interactive Media (IIM) reviewed top-level IAs of other higher education institution sites and found an overwhelming majority of task-based IAs.
  • Consult with IIM on Fridays during open office hours.
• Framework & App User Group
  • Working on putting together a user group of programmers to look at UX (both front-end and administration) for the public information apps.

Framework & Application Updates

• Updated links in footer. View Changelog
• WebAudit: update aXe and W3C validator, change spelling errors to notices
• Events: images on home page
• MediaHub encoding updates on the way, will include adaptive streaming

Metrics updates

• WebAudit: in contrast to last month, all metrics were up or equal this month. An Honor Roll was added for sites in the 90–100% range. Gold and silver star badges coming to sites in the footer next month.

Timeline to Completion

• Apr: UX Design Subcommittee meeting to review design progress
• May: Barkley feedback in mid–late May
• June: Framework Alpha 1, CMS Theme Preview
• July: Framework Alpha 2, CMS Site Demo
• Aug: Framework Beta 1, CMS Development Ready, Apps
• Sep: Framework Beta 2, CMS Feedback + Features
• Oct: Framework 5.0 Release Candidate 1, CMS Feedback + Features
• Nov: Framework 5.0, CMS Production Ready
• Dec: Sites and Apps Ready
• Jan: Go-live Tuesday, Jan 2, 2019, 3pm (remember: 1/2 @ 3), N150 (sesquicentennial)
• The timeline has been updated on the Framework Roadmap page.

UNLcms updates

• Organic groups update this weekend for sites on Drupal 7
• Roles should be unchanged for staff moving from UNL to Central Admin

Digital Campus Framework (DCF) 1.0 / UNL Theme 5.0

• Base DCF documentation available at http://www.digitalcampus.us; will eventually be incorporated into UNL 5.0 theme documentation.
• Lazy-loading will be integrated into framework

Other topics

• CAS logins getting merged into Shibboleth logins on Sunday morning. Need to pretest and check your standard services and submit a ticket if they're not working on Sunday morning.
• Chrome 66 will stop honoring Symantec certs in mid-April. It shouldn't have a major effect, but make sure your sites are not effected.