TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2016 - 2:00PM
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:
- 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
- Resources
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