20231122

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Objective: Increase access to our collections

• Discovery: How to add DigitalLocation to works API response for Born Digital items #2476

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

• Improvements as a result of our accessibility audit:

  • Improve colour contrast for segmented control and aligning component behaviour and tab style across the site #10239

• Setting up developers with up-to-date accessibility testing software #10007

• Analysed tree test results for visual stories to inform information architecture

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Begun work on getting events into Content API #63

Other

• Fix to if an exhibition or event appears in the homepage header, we don't want to display it a second time in the list of what's on on the homepage #10416 Fix to bug: "On Exhibition" works now show the correct note #2474 Image gallery (search) should have a background colour on each image as they load #10442, #10440

Focusing on next

Objective: Increase access to our collections

• Get METS transformer ready to accept born digital material

• Begin preparing front end for born digital material

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

• Next iteration of Digital Guides ready for review

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Deploy improved query and mapping for Catalogue API

• Begin indexing Events for Content API

• Add initial Event endpoints to the Content API

• Begin work on front end for Events search

Other

• Upgrade the Elastic stack