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Progress against our quarterly objectives

Objective: Increase access to our collections

• Fixed a bug in the viewer by checking that items property exists #10025

• Discovery: Add links to useful guides in Exhibition pages (design) #9978

• Enhanced the iiif viewer by making the main viewer work without javascript #9967

• Improve page weight by reducing the amount of data used in a Works search #8339

Objective: Improve the venue experience for people with specific access needs

• Visual stories: create ImageAndText slice #9976, create IconsAndText slice #9977, plan for collecting prototype feedback #9798

• Investigation of text to speech on stories, an example of which can be seen on A brief history of tattoos with the Text-to-speech Amazon Polly toggle on #10031

• Kick off arranging an accessibility audit by Hassell Inclusion #9914

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Get a better understanding of empty aggregation buckets and deal with them #5694

• Filter stories by contributor #10028

Objective: Build the platform services to support born digital access

• Scale down non-prod services outside working hours #5704

Focusing on next

Objective: Increase access to our collections

• Get text to speech on test stories into production for testing

Objective: Improve the venue experience for people with specific access needs

• Progress visual stories by preparing tree test for review within the team & with user researcher; build in Prismic and ensure Content team can build a story; decide what this is this called and where it lives

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Prepare for and deploy refactored mapping and query for catalogue and image search

• Improve colour filtering for image search

• Deploy merged content and catalogue apps

• Handle unpublished articles in content search

• Begin better team understanding of rank testing

Objective: Build the platform services to support born digital access

• Upgrade current instance of Archivematica