December 2024 Release Notes

This release focuses on accessibility improvements and performance optimizations across the website.

Key Enhancements by ETAMU web team

• Line-height above 1.5 for body copy on Masonry grid block
• Audience cards now have appropriate empty alt text
• Several blocks are being removed and new ones can no longer be created
  • Athletics – Fully deleted
  • Faculty Spotlight – Fully deleted
  • Fast Facts – Fully deleted
  • Graduate Tabs – New blocks prevented
  • Landing Page Header – Fully deleted
  • Program Headline – Fully deleted
  • People Wide – Marked to be detectable on pages
  • Tabs General – New blocks prevented
  • Tabs – New blocks prevented
  • News Category Slider – New blocks prevented
  • News Bites – New blocks prevented
• Image slider gallery has the navigation dots removed and left and right arrows modified to look like all other sliders.
• The Youtube playlist now has a more accessible mute button.
• On the people block, the faculty photo’s link was removed for accessibility reasons.
• News homepage blocks now have appropriate hover and keyboard focus indicators on interactive items.
• The white menu at the top of the page (Page Contextualized Menu) now has a larger touch area for easier activation.
• .well-known directory added to the server for better security.
• Redis caching system disabled to test for improved stability
• Several updates were made throughout the month to support our name change.
  • Many logos were switched
  • A name change modification script was added.
  • The university colors were updated
  • Ordered and Unordered lists styles were improved, but are not complete. Please send any lists that don’t look right to me and Paul.