This morning, I was alerted to suspicious activity in server logs referring to the My Calendar print view by a concerned user. Checking the data, it was clear that there was a significant security issue in My Calendar which was being used to generate links out to remote sites by abusing the referrer URL (Uniform Resource Locator) in the My Calendar print view. This security issue was fixed in version 3.3.17, released this morning. The issue would not impact any […]
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My Tickets version 1.9.0 released
I released My Tickets version 1.9.0 today; the first major release for My Tickets in over three years. In reality, My Tickets has changed quite a lot since version 1.8.0 released in 2019; but it’s been mostly very slow and incremental, and without a lot of significant new features. Though this release has a short changelog, a few of those changelog items are pretty significant in scope. General Admission ticketing Not everything you sell tickets for is an event with […]
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Every year, WebAIM conducts a study of the top 1,000,000 home pages across the web. This study is a great way to get a broad assessment of how web accessibility is changing across a wide array of popular sites. And year by year, the stats seem to be getting a bit better. But the progress is so incremental, with such small gains. And this isn’t because home pages aren’t changing. If you look at the detected errors section, you’ll see […]
Continue reading “Still plenty of work to do – the WebAIM Million” »My Calendar Pro v2.1.5 released
Version 2.1.5 of My Calendar Pro released today. This update includes a number of helpful improvements and bug fixes: Bug Fixes Bug fix: Don’t show locations in search form if 1 or fewer locations available. Bug fix: Date formats should not apply to data sources, only display sources. Bug fix: Correctly unfold multiline descriptions in ICS imports. Props @UrsWeberG. Bug fix: Trim CSV file so event count is correct in imports. Bug fix: Scripts loading in head could break submit […]
Continue reading “My Calendar Pro v2.1.5 released” »The posts they are a changin’ – Gutenberg, Blocks, and the future of WordPress
In a recent email, I wrote this paragraph (paraphrased because it’s out of context): “Accessible development requires a high level of distrust for the tools you’re using to build a site, and an operational assumption that unless you have reviewed the output of a tool, you should assume it’s not accessible. This is a frustratingly adversarial method of interacting with software, but once you’ve worked through the process of assessing what your tools do systematically, you will have a good […]
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