17.1 - Jefferson Release

Release Date: September 12, 2024

The WCM Team is excited to announce our second “in-house” code release, codename “Jefferson,” will be released to Production at 6pm central on September 12!  While the release is packed full of accessibility fixes, we are excited about our new component for External Audio allowing for the playback of audio files hosted on the multimedia server and other URLs.  Additionally, several users requested a more noticeable size difference between the H3 and H6 fonts; it’s included in this release!

• CF List
  • New style added to display the calendar list (GH #572)
• Header/Footer
  • Add ability to set social media icon color via the configuration screen, one selection for all icons, NOT individual icons (GH #633)
• Location Finder
  • Add ability to create a "hyperlink" column, and select another column as the value of the hyperlink (GH #456)
• News & Event Container Template Policy
  • Update base code to ensure correct policies are applied to the page templates when code is deployed (GH #1008)
• Press Release/News Article
  • Link shared on social media to news article populates specific press release information in "card" (GH #412)
• Title
  • Created sizing differences between ALL heading sizes H1 XL -> H6.  Created color difference between H1 XL, H1, and H2 -> H6 (GH #292)
    • Known Issues
    • Color differences between H1 and the other heading sizes may not be desirable, a site custom.css change can be used to revert this change if needed.  Please request assistance from DoIT.WebServices@illinois.gov if interested in this option
    • Default style and Dark style result in the same visual appearance.  This will be addressed in a future update, but the problem was pre-existing to this release
    • Other components which include “Heading” markup do not abide by the styling/size changes made by the enhancement.  These components will be brought into alignment in a future release

• A11Y
  • Graph: remove Aria-Hidden attribute to allow screen reader access to data (GH #1083)
  • Audio component: corrected misused heading (GH #468)
• Accordion
  • Fixed "Expand All/Collapse All" issue where multiple accordion components were expanded by default AND it adjusted the ARIA labels and expected control behaviors for keyboard control. Only the accordion with focus is expanded (GH #1088)
• Asset Datatable
  • Additional field selections added to asset metadata after datatable creation do not show up on the site page (GH #210)
• CF List
  • When using date field and setting display to "Only Past Dates" or applying a date range and showing max items: x, the page shows only (x-3) items (GH #1062)
• Footer
  • Corrected, Chatbot Agent ID is no longer required to save changes to agency footer configuration when no Chatbot is enabled (GH #650)

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• A known issue exists with the color picker within components. The normal color palette display in SOI components is four columns of swatches, evenly spaced. Something within Adobe’s Service Pack 6.5.20 release disrupts the display by adding the hex codes to each swatch. The resulting display is a 2 column color palette unevely spaced. Adobe is aware of the issue and informed us that the State of Illinois is not the only customer affected. Adobe plans to release a fix in Service Pack 6.5.22, scheduled to be out sometime in December 2024. Be aware this is a visual issue only. This issue has not proven to affect functionality of the color picker, so users may continue to use the components normally.