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What is Accessibility? Accessibility is about making a system or environment more accessible for use, be that adjusting language, building accessibility ramps, or providing hearing aids. What this means for software accessibility is making the software mor...

How to access screen reader functionality A feature of most modern commercial and domestic computer systems is the ability to switch on a screen reader functionality. This accessibility tool is designed to help partially sighted users navigate their screen by...

What to expect from Accessibility functionality with Crowdcomms? The screen reader is designed to speak clearly in the language, pitch and speed specified to it by the user and read out what has been selected/highlighted by the user. This tool will not do wor...

Limitations of a Screen Reader Although the accessibility features are impressive and assist greatly those with visual disabilities, they do still have limitations. A common misunderstanding with screen readers is the expectation for them to “describe” somet...

How to use a Screen Reader? With the Narrator or Voiceover turned on you will notice there is now a thick bordered and coloured box around what the audio is reading. This is the item on the screen that has been selected by the narrator to describe. You will n...

Hidden Module Reporting For some application builds it maybe necessary that a module or modules are hidden from display on the Front End app to some users or groups based on the security and visibility settings of the module. This will mean there is no direct...

Banner messages are user defined messages which will appear in a banner at the bottom of each screen within the Front End of the platform when enabled. They are useful for clients who need to constantly display legal messages, copy right information, safety in...

Introduction Since 05/08/21 with Front End release for 3.5.0 there has been an alternative view available for the Agenda module within the Front End of the platform. Both views give the user the exact same information, it is just displayed in different ways. ...

Google Analytics (GA) is a free web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic, it works by the inclusion of a block of JavaScript code on pages on our platform. The tracking operation retrieves data about the page request through various means ...

Eventboost is an all-in-one event management software and online registration platform which is now able to be integrated with the CrowdComms platform.  In order to complete the integration there first must be an event created by Eventboost which will have a ...

A review of the CrowdComms Front End application measured against the Web Content Accessibility 2.2 requirements. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 WCAG Requirements Current CC Platform build complaint with standards Notes ...