20231025.md

Progress against our quarterly objectives

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

• Improvements as a result of our accessibility audit:
  • Make download menu accessible to keyboard users #10235
  • Logo alt text should describe back to home page #10245
  • Fixed keyboard focus to be consistent for the login link #10236
• Visual stories
  • URLs for Visual stories #10275
  • Breadcrumbs for Visual stories #10300

Other

• Align no results message in Search Stories to help users adjust filters when used #10286
• Reduce spacing on archives works pages #10156
• Brought to life: Rewrite Miro image suppression script to handle large amount of IDs #2440, Migrate images to MediaGraph #2441
• Performance improvement: Set eager_global_ordinals on aggregable fields #2438
• Make work fgzg27sc available #2464
• Merger refactoring #2467

Focusing on next

Objective: Increase access to our collections

• Begin investigation into what born digital material is and will need to be made available to users

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
• Define the Prismic GraphQL query and ElasticSearch mappings for events
• Begin investigation into aggregation optimisation

Other

• Update our Lambdas that are using the Python 3.7 runtime
• Improve documentation for the storage service
• Storybook 7 (design system) discovery