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3.5.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

3.5.1-3.5.2

November 16, 2020

  • Removed google optimize script
  • More fonts added to preload to improve performance
  • Style fixes for dark mode

3.5.0

November 9, 2020

  • Added display preferences for selecting fonts, setting dark mode
  • Styles for header have also been refactored to allow for more flexibility in the "Western Header" region for secondary site name and menu blocks

3.4.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

3.4.2

November 9, 2020

  • minor style fix for cards

3.4.1

October 26, 2020

  • Accordion bug fix, images should now load

3.4.0

October 12, 2020

  • The featherlight library for video lightboxes is no longer supported. We suggest using the Ashlar lightbox pattern instead for video needing to be highlighted in a dialog.
  • Additional active path patches.

3.3.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

3.3.0

October 5, 2020

  • Active path will now be highlighted in menus
  • Responsive containers added to embedded videos by default

3.2.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

3.2.2

September 28, 2020

  • Heading area refactored to remove a duplicate ID
  • Bug fixes

3.2.1

September 21, 2020

  • Fonts, spacing, and other size units have been converted from pixel to em/rem values for better accessibility and to respect user preferences as set in the browser
  • Fonts/material icons are now loaded locally within the theme
  • Quick search style updates
  • Fixes for new lightbox
  • Additional column helper classes added
  • COVID Attestation banner added
  • Report Bias quick links menu item added

3.2.0

September 14, 2020

  • New and a11y improved lightbox feature

3.1.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

3.1.4

August 31, 2020

  • Copyright statement added to footer
  • Improvements to full page testimonial styles on mobile

3.1.3

August 10, 2020

  • Style fix for headings on background colors
  • Bug fixes

3.1.2

August 3, 2020

  • Style fixes for headlines
  • A11y improvements for featherlight plugin

3.1.1

July 27, 2020

  • Minor style fix for split-style cards

3.1.0

July 20, 2020

  • Some spacing improvements on four column sections
  • More helper classes for margins and padding and making items fit the width of their container
  • New background colors available for beyond basic blocks
  • New button styles added
  • New heading styles added

3.0.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

3.0.1-3.0.3

July 13, 2020

  • General bug fixes for new header layout
  • Old logo variants removed from Pattern Lab

Major Update: Ashlar 3.0

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

A significant overhaul of the header/splash area. This change should not affect menu structure or any content on the page, and should not result in any breaking changes or down time for the majority of sites. However, a small handful of sites will need to have a few page level blocks moved into a new region.

Old header New header Old menu New menu Old mobile menu New mobile menu New footer

What changed

  • The Make Waves version of the logo will now be used across all sites
  • Some university quick links have been moved. Calendar, Directory, and Map are now located in the (dark blue) University footer.
  • Site names have been relocated to be more prominent
  • The main navigation has been moved above the splash area, and there are some cosmetic style changes

What did not change

  • The main menu content, functionality, or structure
  • The placement of items in the splash area (in other words, the area with a photo, and any headlines or content that appears in that section)
  • Anything in the content regions between the splash area and the university footer

In addition to the header change, version 3.0.0 now uses Pa11y hooks to run automated accessibility checks on development branches before they are pushed to the repository. See section "Accessibility Testing in Ashlar" of the readme for more information on how these checks run.

2.15.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

2.15.3

June 29, 2020

  • Updates to Email Signature template: Make Waves logo and optional Teams link added

2.15.2

June 22, 2020

  • Article tags removed from basic node template and media template
  • Accessibility fix for quote block types

2.15.1

June 15, 2020

  • Video backgrounds with accessibility improvements added (work in progress)
  • Deprecated 'Make Waves' block templates removed
  • Minor style fixes for event cards
  • View templates updated to remove header/footer tags

2.15.0

June 8, 2020

  • New Feature: Content switcher block type
  • Tribal Lands statement added to global footer
  • Print styles added for myWestern icons

2.14.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

2.14.5

June 1, 2020

  • Enhancements to paged form styles, including check marks for completed items

2.14.4

May 26, 2020

  • Styles for multi-step forms added
  • Google optimize code for homepage added
  • Deprecated vendor styles/library removed
  • Update npm to remove high/moderate security errors on installation

2.14.3

May 11, 2020

  • Minor style fixes affecting homepage and OCE

2.14.2

  • Styles added for form fieldsets/collections

2.14.1

  • Bug fix with flex display

2.14.0

May 4, 2020

  • New Custom classes for tables now available:
    • light-blue
    • lightest-gray
    • align-top
    • align-bottom
    • auto-layout
  • Style fixes for info cards/containing views
  • New Event list styles are now available

2.13.x Updates

Stephanie Paulantis
Stephanie Paulantis
Front End Developer/Designer
Carly Gerard
Carly Gerard
Accessibility Engineer

2.13.4

May 4, 2020

  • Display fix for banners with Blazy classes

2.13.1

April 27, 2020

  • Black and white gradient overlay options added for banners
  • Additional style options added for statistics
  • Underlined heading style option added

2.13.2

April 27, 2020

  • Link color fix for new gradients

2.13.3

April 27, 2020

  • Light green button styles added
  • Minor adjustments made to focus outline for main menu buttons
  • horizontal class can now be used used on card blocks to make them appear as they would in a 'card-list' container

2.13.0

** April 20, 2020**

  • New card styles can be used by adding "event", "information", or "information split-style" as class selectors to the html element containing the "card" class