At Fellow Digitals, we believe in creating digital environments where everyone can engage and benefit from our products. That’s why we are excited to share some updates aimed at enhancing accessibility for all users.

Latest Accessibility Enhancements

Our recent release introduces a range of updates designed to improve accessibility. These updates reflect our ongoing commitment to meeting and exceeding accessibility standards. Some of the key enhancements include: 

• Improved Keyboard Navigation: We have refined keyboard interactions, ensuring that users can efficiently navigate all features without the need for a mouse.

• Enhanced Screen Reader Support: We’ve made significant improvements to the way our platform interacts with screen readers.

• Color Contrast Adjustments: Our design team has reviewed and adjusted color contrasts across the platform.

• Form Accessibility: Forms have been updated with improved labels and error messages, making them more understandable and easier to use with assistive technologies.

These updates are part of our broader mission to create an inclusive digital experience. 

Our Goal: WCAG 2.2 Certification

Looking ahead, we are targeting full compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) by early 2025. The WCAG 2.2 guidelines provide a comprehensive framework for making web content more accessible.

We understand that accessibility is an evolving field, and we are dedicated to staying at the forefront of these changes. Accessibility is not just a checkbox for us; it is a continuous journey of improvement. Our product development team will continue to prioritize accessibility in future updates.

• Some glossary terms with special characters it in would not be clickable.

• Retake attempt settings have been restored for SCORM courses.

• Calendar invite emails now support HTML body text.

Video playback: Progress tracking has been enhanced to handle connection drops or browser timeouts more effectively. If you or your learners still encounter issues, please let us know.

Programs: We've resolved an issue that was preventing users from duplicating programs.

The following issues have been fixed today:

• Text editor: the “Heading 1” formatting option would not be visible.

• Text editor: the image alignment would not be saved in some cases.

• Presentations could not be imported as new section within a course.

1. The “Continue” button did not work in some courses.

2. Full screen images were not be visible in some courses.

3. Searching members by email address now works again.

4. Deactivated members are hidden by default again.

5. Words are no longer broken in the middle within the Headline widget.

Happy 2024! We have begun the new year by addressing some pesky bugs:

• Excel Reports: Resolved an issue where some users were receiving an .xlsx file that could not be opened by Excel.

• Group Edit: Corrected an issue where the selected courses would occasionally disappear.

• Programs: Fixed an issue where duplicate course enrollments would be created in some rare instances.

In the past weeks we have released to following improvements:

Member import

Newly added members are now high-lighted in green on the confirmation pane. When importing a lot of members, you can now quickly see who’s new and who’s not. Hover over the names to reveal more detailed info about what’s going on:

Notifications

• Some links in the notification dropdown wouldn’t open the correct page.

• The notification dropdown now also includes alerts about new messages in discussions you follow.

• Improvements were made in the delivery of push notifications.

Various bug fixes

• Members: When exporting to Excel, some fields were not included in the spreadsheet.

• Groups: The total member counts in the group overview now exclude deactivated members as before.

• Glossary: In rare situations, some terms would not become clickable.

• Widgets: Not all categories would be visible when setting up content filters.

• Widgets: In some cases, staff members would not be able to edit widgets with no content.

• Search filter: An issue was resolved where it would not be possible to manually enter the date and time.

This week we’ve resolved some issues:

1. Course Menu: Auditors can now see the "Members" menu item, providing access to results and certificates.

2. Discussions: We've fixed the issue where the "New Topic" would be invisible for some users.

3. Media progress requirements: Auditors are now exempt from video or audio progress requirements, offering a smoother experience for content review.

4. Country Selector: Now, users can select from all countries worldwide, rather than only currently in-use countries.

• Start pages:

  • The banner would not consistently appear at the top of the page.

  • The items in hand-picked widgets could not be rearranged.

• Course Menu: Fixed an issue where the "Meetings" menu item could not be removed.

• Document Viewer: maximizing the document viewer would cause it to jump back to the first page.