Our colleagues in Communications found this really great guide to WCAG 2.0 Accessibility requirements. Each items has a short article explaining the standard in simple English with suggestions.

Updates

• Drupal allowed_formats 8.x-1.1
• Drupal ckeditor_descriptionlist 8.x-1.0
• WordPress Appointments 2.2.0
• WordPress Cryout Theme Settings 0.5.8
• WordPress Emma for WordPress 1.3.1
• WordPress Hueman theme 3.3.14
• WordPress Parabola theme 2.2.1
• WordPress Post Tags and Categories for Pages 1.4.1
• WordPress Responsive theme 2.7.2

Fixes and Tweaks

• References to the “News Room” were changed to the “Newsroom” in the global header and all locations on the Middlebury and MIIS Drupal sites.
• Fixed an issue where the MIIS homepage was printing extra stories that were hidden, but may still have caused browsers to download extra assets.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.

We’ve removed the Sydney theme from the list of those which can be enabled on the Middlebury site network. This theme requires a custom plugin for most of its advanced functionality to work and we recommend people use a different theme for their sites.

Updates

• Drupal 7.56
• Drupal 8.3.4
• Drupal auto_entitylabel 8.x-2.0-beta1
• Drupal block_visibility_groups 8.x-1.1
• Drupal file_entity 7.x-2.2
• Drupal media 7.x-2.8
• Drupal schema 7.x-1.3
• Drupal security_review 8.x-1.x-dev
• WordPress Email Users 4.8.6
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.5.6
• WordPress Resize Image After Upload 1.8.1
• WordPress Responsive theme 2.7.1
• WordPress Sydney theme 1.40
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.6

Fixes and Tweaks

• Updated the copyright statement and carbon neutrality banner in the Sustainability site footer.
• Extended the local browser cache lifetime of items served by cdn.middlebury.edu to two weeks and minified the MIIS site’s CSS files.
• Removed the list of admission prices from the Dining Menus site.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.

We have disabled the creation of WebM videos when new video files are uploaded to MiddMedia. The server was experiencing issues transcoding video to that format. Firefox and other browsers now natively support H.264, removing the requirement for a WebM alternative file.

Updates

• Drupal views_slideshow 7.x-3.9
• WordPress Editorial Calendar 3.6.4
• WordPress NextGEN Gallery 2.2.10
• WordPress Parabola theme 2.2.0
• WordPress Post Types Order 1.9.3.1
• WordPress Redirection 2.6.2
• WordPress Responsive theme 2.6
• WordPress Restricted Site Access 6.0.1
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.5

Fixes and Tweaks

• Members of the “ADA Compliance” group will now automatically get added to WordPress sites created through the Course Hub so they can assist in making course materials accessible.
• HTML files are no longer allowed to be uploaded to Drupal webforms and we’ve further limited the allowed files types that can be collected through submissions to these forms.
• Fixed an issue in the Drupal WYSIWYG editor caused by the introduction of a new field for handling external media URLs which we don’t use.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.

WordPress 4.8 features new sidebar widgets for images, videos, audio, and rich text. We’ve added support for these in the past through custom plugins and shortcodes, but it’s now part of the native experience with an improved user interface.

Updates

• Drupal 7.55
• Drupal 8.3.3
• Drupal file_entity 7.x-2.1
• Drupal media 7.x-2.6
• Drupal views_slideshow 8.x-4.5
• WordPress 4.8
• WordPress JetPack 5.0
• WordPress Redirection 2.6.1
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.4
• WordPress themes: Hueman, Illustratr, Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen

Fixes and Tweaks

• Applied padding updates to the CCI WordPress homepage.
• Resolved an issue with the Middlebury TimelineJS Shortcode WordPress plugin which was not allowing timelines with hyphens in their ids.
• Relocated the editorial style guide to GitHub.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

Updates

• Drupal date_popup 8.x-1.0
• Drupal diff 8.x-1.0-rc1
• Drupal entity_reference_revisions 8.x-1.3
• Drupal feeds 8.x-3.x-dev
• Drupal field_permissions 8.x-1.0-beta2
• Drupal metatag 8.x-1.1
• Drupal twig_tweak 8.x-1.8
• MediaWiki EmbedVideo 2.7.0
• Omeka Bulk Metadata Editor 2.4
• WordPress Instagram Feed 1.4.9
• WordPress Post Expirator 2.2.1
• WordPress Redirection 2.6
• WordPress RokoPhoto Lite theme 1.1.10
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.3
• WordPress WPtouch 4.3.18

Fixes and Tweaks

• Only sites.middlebury.edu/dmt/ will redirect to the Digital Media Tutor blog, allowing other WordPress sites to be created which begin with the letters “dmt”.
• Removed a login form for ILLiad from the Drupal site and replaced with a direct link to the ILLiad login page.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

We are continuing to investigate an issue with uploading files in MediaWiki using the Embedded file button in the WYSIWYG editor. There appears to be a bug in the user API in recent versions of MediaWiki causing this. In the meantime, you can upload files to wikis using the “Special:Upload” page.

Updates

• Drupal dropzonejs 8.x-1.0-alpha7
• Drupal ds 8.x-3.1
• Drupal entityreference 7.x-1.4
• Drupal file_entity 7.x-2.0
• Drupal media 7.x-2.4
• Drupal media_entity_audio 8.x-1.0-beta3

Fixes and Tweaks

• The Directory now correctly decodes LDAP-escaped characters stored in fields, such as website URLs.
• MediaWiki will no longer throw a mixed content security warning due to loading favicons.
• Fixed an issue editing in Drupal with Chrome where images were not selectable in the WYSIWYG editor and image dimensions were not populated in the Edit Image dialog.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

Updates

• Drupal mimemail 7.x-1.0
• Drupal media 7.x-2.3
• WordPress Hueman theme 3.3.11
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.2.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• GO links now work even if there is a Google Analytics “Linker” code appended to the URL.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

We now support SoundCloud embeds in our Drupal sites using the shortcode used for other multimedia embeds.

Updates

• Drupal ctools 8.x-3.0
• Drupal entityreference 7.x-1.3
• Drupal google_cse 8.x-3.x-dev
• Drupal google_tag 8.x-1.x-dev
• Drupal media 7.x-2.1
• Drupal migrate_plus 8.x-4.0-beta1
• Drupal migrate_tools 8.x-4.0-beta1
• Drupal modernizr 7.x-3.10
• Drupal panels 8.x-4.1
• Drupal pathauto 8.x-1.0
• WordPress Accelerate theme 1.3.2
• WordPress Akismet 3.3.2
• WordPress OSM – OpenStreetMap 3.9.4
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• Ensured that the R25 Promotional Calendar content is still displayed in sidebars where it is the only piece of content.
• The college shield is now used in lieu of a photo on profiles when the user isn’t found in the directory (had been incorrectly using the old college seal in this case).

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Archiving Moodle.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).