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Progress against our quarterly objectives

Objective: Increase access to our collections

  • Tidying up credit and licence information:

    • Update design of “collapsibleContent” (formerly “explanatoryText”) component used in ‘Can I use this’ and with transcripts #10182

    • Add 'Location of original' variable text to “Licence and re-use” (formerly “Can I use”) block #10220

    • Update humanReadableText for digital content licences #10208

  • Reformat how credit information is presented on works page #10223

  • Note: If anyone is curious about the changes made and how we got there, Jenn documented it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wume9ZRm64zL1wQI7UGoN5FP2c9dN_qnqyTiZMFYWQc/edit?usp=sharing

  • Fixed images licenses mismatch #10074

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

  • Exhibition page resource links so that exhibition guides, visual stories and PDFs can be displayed on the exhibition page #10041

  • Implement collapsibleContent component alongside multimedia players in Prismic #10183

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

  • Move unpaired filters to query.filter #677

  • Fixed keyboard navigation in search #9826

  • Integrate new rank tests into CI #5715

  • Fixed API returns a 500 error when regex-like characters sneak into the search templates #696

Other

  • Reinstate pipeline logging #5731

  • Append all Eventbrite ticketing links with a campaign parameter for better analytics for Marketing #10055

  • Remove deprecated Discussion component from site and Prismic to clean up code #10184

  • Switch to London-comparisons everywhere for isSameDay #9874

  • Show opening times in the footer on error pages #8327

Focusing on next

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

  • Visual stories

    • make sure URL path is correct

    • draft user research questions for people using visual stories - also see previous thinking at visual stories research questions

    • check in with content team

  • Access audit prioritisation

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

  • Improve and simplify queries for catalogue API

  • Remove Brought to Life images from the API/web site and upload to MediaGraph

  • Ensure filter dropdown entries are unique by label

Other

  • Update our Lambdas that are using the Python 3.7 runtime #5732 (support for Python 3.7 in AWS Lambda ending)

  • Upgrade Buildkite Elastic stack and application node versions

  • Investigate and improve dependency resolution

  • Finish removing unshared code from common

  • Continue UI site audit

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