This October, we’re serving up a few treats for your testing toolkit, including a suite of accessibility improvements, and a convenient way to access Centercode Labs, a new space where you’ll find fun, experimental tools designed to make your day-to-day a little easier (and a little more fun!)

improvements

📈  Improvements 📈 

👻Accessi-boo-lity Improvements! 👻

This month we're rolling out a round of screen reader enhancements across key tester-facing areas of Centercode, including Menu Navigation, the Feedback List, Feedback View, Form Engine, Login, and Activities. These updates are entirely seamless, there’s nothing you need to configure! The platform simply works better for users who rely on screen readers. We’ve introduced improved tab order, landmark skipping, and more intuitive focus states, all of which provide meaningful audio context for page functions and actions. That means users with visual impairments can now navigate and engage with our platform more efficiently and with significantly less friction!

These enhancements not only improve accessibility for current users, they also support a wider range of test types, including Accessibility-focused testing programs. That means you can confidently include users with visual impairments in your projects, expanding your reach while maintaining a seamless experience. This is part of our ongoing investment in accessibility, and future developments will be built with these enhancements as a foundation. We’re actively welcoming feedback from screen reader users to help shape what comes next!

🧪Centercode Labs, just in time for mad science season! 🧪 

In keeping with the spirit of the season, we've got a fun treat for you this month! Centercode Labs is our playground for building small, interactive tools and toys designed to make product development a little easier (and sometimes a little more fun). Now you can check out the latest drops whenever you’re in the platform!

You'll find the new link in your community admin help dropdown menu:

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

User Interface & Experience

• A rollback (with a correction to come next week) for ordering issue mismatches between project/program lists on the community homepage, admin program list, and user preferences list. We will get this one "sorted" out!

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

User Interface & Experience

• A correction was made to the User Preferences project display list under a specific Program configuration.

Data Engine & Custom Reporting

• A reporting drill-down issue related to filtering by teams was corrected.
• Reporting on feature satisfaction rating when rating does not exist no longer breaks the view.

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Miscellaneous

• Fixed the Remove button layering so it now appears above the footer in Cross Project Labels.
• Prevented errors when users without the Manage survey role try to create or change cross-project labels - now they receive proper permission feedback. 

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reporting

• Access to view/filter data by role was adjusted to ensure users accessing reporting can apply a view/filter

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reporting

• The "Insert Above" action when building a form will no longer be misplaced if directly following an element removal.

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• The "include labels" option on specific report elements will not bleed into other elements in that report with labels.
• Reports exported at license caps were adjusted.

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Integrations

• Filtering on External Listeners is once again optional when creating or modifying them.

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• A few additional filtering adjustments were made to numeric "between" entry field behavior, and when using multiple "is not one of" numeric results in the same filter.

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• An issue using dynamic tags in document style custom reports was corrected.

Notices

• Users on the primary Admin team (project or community) will no longer encounter Block Notices they have access to.

Test Planning

• Archived Features with a connected survey will continue to allow survey completion for users that met the feature completion before it was archived.

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• Dynamic tag adjustment when the tester impact dynamic tag value is empty (now displays 0, was displaying blank prior).
• Incomplete activities in CDE data will now return blank as intended.

Form Engine & Custom Surveys

• Project survey notices will now be included on both the activities menu as well as the project homepage survey list.

Onboarding/Recruiting

• File names that contain certain special characters will no longer cause background image display issues.