I’m releasing simultaneous major updates to My Calendar and My Calendar Pro today! The My Calendar release is particularly exciting, adding a couple of commonly requested features. My Calendar 3.8.0 Major new features in My Calendar 3.8.0 Important changes Accessibility improvements The release also includes a wide array of bug fixes, documented in the readme. My Calendar Pro 3.5.0 While My Calendar 3.8.0 is a significant set of changes, the changes in My Calendar Pro are smaller; mostly focused on […]
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My Calendar Pro v3.4.0 Released
My Calendar Pro v3.4.0 is released! This is a major release, and includes a number of significant changes worth mentioning. Importer Improvements When importing .ics event sources, My Calendar Pro has historically taken each individual occurrence of an event and imported them as separate events. With version 3.4.0, the importer will now insert those occurrences as individual instances of a single event. This greatly reduces clutter in your database and in your events list, making management of your events easier. […]
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Major updates to both My Calendar and My Calendar Pro went out today. The most significant user-facing change is the switch from using a elements for navigation to using button elements for navigation. This only applies if you have AJAX navigation enabled; if you’re using page refreshes to navigate My Calendar, the navigation will render as links. This is intended to fix two issues: an accessibility concern where the element used to navigate didn’t match the way navigation works when […]
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I’m approaching this story from the starting assumption that accessibility overlays are a problem. So I’m not going to spend time on arguments for or against the technology. I’m also making the assumption that we all agree that the tool itself must be accessible, and won’t discuss that question here. I am interested in one key question: where do we draw the line between a potentially useful tool and an evil overlay? What are the characteristics that make an overlay […]
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The beta release of My Calendar 3.7.0 is ready for testing. This major release includes numerous bug fixes, and a few major changes that would benefit from testing. Breaking Change: Navigation HTML (HyperText Markup Language) changed The My Calendar navigation has historically been a mix of links and forms. This made a lot of sense in the early days of the plugin, when navigation was driven by new page loads – the links were navigation, and moved you to a […]
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