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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