20231012

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Objective: Increase access to our collections

  • Tidying up credit and licence information:

  • 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

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

  • Improvements as a result of our accessibility audit:

    • Status message is provided when searches are filtered and the results update #10238arrow-up-right

    • Keyboard focus now shows in dark/high contrast mode #10237arrow-up-right

    • What's on page headings now correctly nested #10228arrow-up-right

    • Listing pages should have blank alt text so there’s not a huge amount of information for screen readers, and alt text is not necessary on decorative images #10268arrow-up-right

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

  • Use Terraform to provision API keys in the per-pipeline Elasticsearch clusters #2106arrow-up-right

Other

Focusing on next

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

  • Visual stories: finish work on visual stories for Editorial, including building an index page

  • Continue making improvements identified in the access audit

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

  • Improve and simplify queries for catalogue API

  • Ensure filter dropdown entries are unique by label

  • Improve dependency resolution in more applications

Other

  • Remove experimental toggles for search

  • Update our Lambdas that are using the Python 3.7 runtime

  • Improve dependency resolution

  • Increase team familiarity with the storage service

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