Author: Barry

Professional multidisciplinary designer based in Dundee, Scotland, currently working for a large Scottish media company.
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Blocks 2.6.9

Accessibility Updates

  • Cycle2 Gallery and Carousel can now be interacted with by a keyboard user
  • Added a visible focus state to all interactive objects
  • Breaking News section labelled with aria attributes
  • Moved Breaking News into a landmark
  • Added an h1 object on pages-blocks.php with the condition of whether to show or not on the front page. This is obscured by CSS and is for screen readers only.
  • Improved print CSS

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2622

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WordPress Cluster 9.0.45

  • Plugins added:
    • Site Personalization Manager Posts Widget 1.0.0
      • Plugin to handle Sailthru Personalization Manager content
  • Plugins updated:
    • DCT CTAs 1.0.5
      • Added full-width / contained attributes for different styling
      • Moved Page selection ACF field higher up the admin UI
      • CSS fixes
    • Blaize 1.11.13
      • Subscribe button tracking CSS
    • PA Importer 1.4.0
      • Admin UI
        • Fixes
          • Batch Limit field was not showing
        • New
          • Bucket PA Topic
            • Filter content on specified patopic
          • Bucket Exclude Subject Codes
            • Exclude content on specified subject codes
  • Themes updated:
    • Blocks 2.5.13
      • Added full-width attribute to Simple template Subscribe CTA
      • Added JS mutation observation script to block PollDaddy from inserting its own CSS by JS
      • CSS fixes
    • The Courier 4.2.9
      • Fixed DCT CTAs Subscribe CTA styling in different contexts:
        • blocks
        • block widgets
        • page (post) content
      • Migrated Blaize meter inline CSS into theme
      • CSS fixes
    • Press and Journal 4.2.4
      • Added DCT CTAs CSS
      • Migrated Blaize meter inline CSS into theme

PRs: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2539, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2544, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2545, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2546, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2548