# 20230720

### Progress against our quarterly objectives

#### Objective: Increase access to our collections

* Fixed a bug in the viewer by checking that items property exists [#10025](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10025)
* Discovery: Add links to useful guides in Exhibition pages (design) [#9978](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9978)
* Enhanced the iiif viewer by making the main viewer work without javascript [#9967](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9967)
* Improve page weight by reducing the amount of data used in a Works search [#8339](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/8339)

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

* Visual stories: create ImageAndText slice [#9976](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9976), create IconsAndText slice [#9977](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9977), plan for collecting prototype feedback [#9798](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9798)
* Investigation of text to speech on stories, an example of which can be seen on [A brief history of tattoos](https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/W9m2QxcAAF8AFvE5) with the [Text-to-speech Amazon Polly toggle](https://dash.wellcomecollection.org/toggles/) on [#10031](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10031)
* Kick off arranging an accessibility audit by Hassell Inclusion [#9914](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9914)

#### Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

* Get a better understanding of empty aggregation buckets and deal with them [#5694](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5694)
* Filter stories by contributor [#10028](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10028)

#### Objective: Build the platform services to support born digital access

* Scale down non-prod services outside working hours [#5704](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/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
