Major updates to both My Calendar and My Calendar Pro went out today. The most significant user-facing change is the switch from using a elements for navigation to using button elements for navigation. This only applies if you have AJAX navigation enabled; if you’re using page refreshes to navigate My Calendar, the navigation will render as links. This is intended to fix two issues: an accessibility concern where the element used to navigate didn’t match the way navigation works when […]
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Is it an evil overlay? How can you tell?
I’m approaching this story from the starting assumption that accessibility overlays are a problem. So I’m not going to spend time on arguments for or against the technology. I’m also making the assumption that we all agree that the tool itself must be accessible, and won’t discuss that question here. I am interested in one key question: where do we draw the line between a potentially useful tool and an evil overlay? What are the characteristics that make an overlay […]
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The beta release of My Calendar 3.7.0 is ready for testing. This major release includes numerous bug fixes, and a few major changes that would benefit from testing. Breaking Change: Navigation HTML (HyperText Markup Language) changed The My Calendar navigation has historically been a mix of links and forms. This made a lot of sense in the early days of the plugin, when navigation was driven by new page loads – the links were navigation, and moved you to a […]
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WP Accessibility 2.2.0 includes one major new feature and one substantial change. New Feature: Video Pausing The major new feature is an option that will inject a play/pause button on autoplaying videos that don’t have controls and that will automatically pause those videos if the prefers-reduced-motion flag is detected. There are many cases this could cover, but one of the most significant is usage of the WordPress “cover” block with a featured video. This embeds the video without controls, which […]
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I’m a couple days late in getting this posted, but My Calendar 3.6.0 and My Calendar Pro 3.2.0 released on Wednesday, April 23rd! Woot! These are both major releases, with some significant improvements. The most significant improvements are in My Calendar. My Calendar Private & Cancelled Events Events in My Calendar have historically had a few statuses available: they could be published, draft, trash, or archive. These are some basic management tools, but they didn’t really have any front-end usefulness. […]
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