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Introducing Sa11y: Your new content accessibility checker!

We’re excited to introduce you to Sa11y, the accessibility quality assurance assistant! Sa11y works as a simple in-page checker that visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues. Geared towards content authors, Sa11y straightforwardly identifies errors or warnings at the source with a simple tooltip on how to fix them. 

Logged-in view with Sa11y enabled. Sa11y detected two issues: a non-descript "learn more" link and a skipped heading.

Before using this tool, we strongly encourage you to review some content accessibility basics.

View an overview and demo of how Sa11y works.

Available to all TMU blog editors

Sa11y is enabled by default for all TMU blog owners and content editors. No installation necessary. Sa11y appears in Preview mode on all pages where a logged-in user has permissions to edit the page.

Customize using Advanced Settings

Although Sa11y works out-of-the-box, you can use the Advanced Settings page to customize the experience for website authors and adapt Sa11y to your theme. Learn how to customize the Advanced Settings.

Temporarily disable plugin

If you are experiencing issues with your blog or theme and need to temporarily disable the plugin, you can do so within the Admin dashboard.

  1. On the sidebar, hover on Settings, then click Sa11y.
  2. Uncheck the first checkbox labelled Enable Sa11y.
  3. Scroll down and click Save Settings.

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.

Upgrade

Upgrade to WordPress 6.2 July 28, 2023

On Friday, July 28 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.

WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy”

This upgrade has lots of improvements to content creation, including a release of the new Site Editor, updates to navigation blocks, improvements to style editing, and performance improvements.

Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.

How will my blog be impacted?

As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.

Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.

After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.

Known issues after this WordPress upgrade

No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.

If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.