If you’ve visited the website recently you may have noticed a few changes. Our developers made a release of a new version of the site on 14th November that went fairly smoothly. Often new releases of software cause a few problems so we’re happy that it went so well.
There are a few minor cosmetic changes as we move towards making the site compliant with the accessibility guidelines defined by the W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#Conformance). We know that we’ve still got a lot of work to do in this area but it is something we’re looking at and eventually we’d like to bring the site up to Conformance Level “Double-A”.

A number of changes have also been designed to help our administrator. Nigel is the person who keeps everything running smoothly by making sure that opportunities get published on the website and by dealing with queries from charities and volunteers. We hope that these changes will make it easier for him to help you.

But there’s also a change to one of the specific charity screens.
Once logged in to the site if you click on “Work packages” in the left hand menu you will be taken to the “Projects and Work Packages” screen. When this screen is displayed it will automatically show a list of all your active work packages. If something isn’t displayed in this list it’s probably because you’ve just made a request and one of our project definers is going to call you in a the next couple of days to discuss your requirements.

If there’s a work package that you think should be listed or one seems to be at the wrong state please let us know and we’ll try to sort it out.

We’ve also added some explanatory text to many of the screens you have access to. We hope this will make it easier for everyone to manage their work packages and to see exactly what is happening.

Please let us know what you think of the changes we’ve made. As ever, we’d love to have your comments at info@iT4Communities.org.uk