New Features
The Newsroom site now has nicely designed social media buttons and individual news stories have similar share buttons. Hovering over the email button no longer automatically opens a pop-out window. You have to manually click the button.
You can now specify the text color and whether to show the title and byline in Drupal Vimeo embeds. See our updated documentation on Drupal Shortcodes for more information.
Updates
Tweaks and Fixes
- The RSS feed of stories from the Newsroom had been broken since the Drupal 7 upgrade, but is now working again. The URL needed to be changed slightly, so you should re-subscribe.
Accessibility
We are beginning to make changes to the site to improve its accessibility according to the WCAG guidelines. In particular, this week:
- The label for the “Search Midd” form is no longer hidden using “display:none”. Instead it is now very narrow so that it won’t appear visually in a browser, but will be read on assistive devices.
- The labels for the email newsletter signup form on the Newsroom site now correctly correspond to their checkboxes.
- The links in the footer to the alumni sites that have labels like “Middlebury Language Schools” now have title attributes specifying that they are “For Alumni” to avoid confusion with links labelled “Middlebury Language Schools” elsewhere on the page.
- One instance of the <center> tag has been removed from the site.
- The “Skip to Main Content” links are now correctly linked to the main content element on the page.
- The headings for the “Quick Search” boxes, such as on the Offices & Services page are now being used as proper labels for the form element.
- The wordmark logos for Middlebury and its affiliate programs are now background images and there is actual text in the header elements on each of the pages, making it easier for them to be read by assistive devices.
This is just the beginning of many accessibility improvements we’ll be making, and working with you to make as well. To learn more about this topic, here is a Lynda.com session on Improving SEO Using Accessibility Techniques and you can view the accessibility issues with the Middlebury site in SiteImprove.