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Platform updates 2023

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December

Automated flows is now available!

With enhancements, automated flows (formerly user flows) is now available to all Enterprise and Accelerate customers!

User flows are essential to your digital experience, but how do you make your most critical flows accessible, and keep them that way? With automated flows, you can test:

  • Key user flows.
  • Interactive elements.
  • Dynamically generated content. 
  • Single-page experiences. 

Create, run, and review the results of key user flows all from the Level Access Platform. 

Introducing Pages

The platform now has Pages under scan settings. Pages is a page repository where you can add page states of your website, which you can use in automated flows. 

Dashboard update

The Dashboard now includes a details view for the risk management status chart. The details view displays a list of all websites and apps within the workspace, grouped by their risk management status.

The table shows the following information for each website/app:

  • Percent of resolved findings

  • Number of resolved findings

Workspace admins and workspace users can now generate API keys

Workspace admins and workspace users can now generate API keys allowing workspace-level users to log in to more of our platform features like the Figma plugin!

 

Other updates

November

Program dashboard update

The Program dashboard now includes a details view for the risk management status chart. The details view displays a list of all websites and apps within your organization, grouped by their risk management status.

The table shows the following information for each website/app:

  • Percent of resolved findings

  • Number of resolved findings

Dashboard updates

  • A note was added to the risk management status chart: “Websites/apps with no status are not included in this count”.

  • In the Findings summary section, if you filter to Evaluations, and there are no evaluation findings associated with the workspace, an empty state will display.

The Level Access browser extension is now available in platform

You can now access the Level Access browser extension in the platform from the Tools and integrations page under Tools & extensions.

Tools and extensions page, shows the location of the new Level Access browser extension.

Other updates

October

Introducing the Level Access browser extension

The Level Access browser extension is now available from the Chrome store.

Use the Level Access browser extension to:

  • Easily send scan results to the platform, no API key necessary.

  • Run single-page scans locally on the browser extension.

  • Scan using Access Engine, the preferred testing tool of Level Access.

Program dashboard

Exclusively for Enterprise customers, the Program dashboard provides organization-level insights on risk management and other big impacts across all workspaces in your organization.

The Program dashboard shows:

  • A dynamic snapshot of your accessibility progress.

  • Quick wins that can propel your organization to the next level.

  • Insights into the progress of all websites/apps across your organization.

Figma plugin

The Figma plugin is now available for all Accelerate and Enterprise customers! Use the Figma plugin to effortlessly find and fix accessibility issues in components during the design phase. The Figma plugin tells you exactly what’s wrong with the component and how to fix it, so you can learn accessible design practices along the way.

Enhancements to issue tracking with Asana

Do more with your Asana integration with the following enhancements and functionalities:

  • Add or remove workspaces to the connection.

  • Re-authenticate the connection.

  • View the Asana task summary in the issue tracking card on the Task details page.

  • Two-way sync between Asana and the platform for comments and attachments.

  • Configure progress mapping between platform projects and Asana.

Bulk change user emails

Reduce the administrative burden of manually creating new and archiving old accounts in the platform with bulk email change. Upload an .xlsx file with the new and existing emails to update your team's emails at scale.

If your organization uses single sign-on, contact your Customer Success Manager to change user emails.

Other updates

  • Edit user permissions now has a more intuitive and navigable interface. The new layout allows you to easily update user permissions with an easy-to-understand hierarchal layout and search functionality.

  • Platform invitations now expire in 30 days rather than 7 days.

  • Monitoring email alerts are now available for workspace users only.

September

New platform navigation

The Level Access Platform just got a brand new look! The platform still holds all the features you know and love, now displayed in a tiered navigation with three levels that are more intuitive and accessible.

A few platform features have been renamed. Learn more about platform terms, check out our getting started guide, and review new navigation FAQs.

Drill down on resolved findings data

Get more insight from the Dashboard by viewing the distribution of resolved findings. Learn which websites/apps are contributing to your resolved findings data and use the data to decide what to work on next. 

Risk management status beta program

Get a snapshot of your accessibility program progress for each website and workspace with the risk management status. Use the risk management status to:

If you're interested in joining the beta program, reach out to our team at beta@levelaccess.com.

Note that the risk management status currently only works for websites and won't be calculated for apps.

Issue tracking with Asana

Set up an Asana connection in the platform so your team can send data from Advanced Projects and Tasks to an Asana project. With an Asana connection, you can push tasks into Asana and manage their progress there.

Request validation testing in-platform beta program

Seamlessly request validation testing without leaving the platform. You can now request validation testing on tasks created from manual findings with the status Requires review. Let the platform gather most of the request data, so you can get more done with an uninterrupted workflow.

If you're interested in joining the beta program, reach out to our team at beta@levelaccess.com.

Monitoring enhancements

  • Monitoring scans no longer expire. You no longer need to select an expiration date during set up.

  • You can now view existing monitoring data after you turn off monitoring.

  • Monitoring settings now save when you turn off monitoring. If you turn on monitoring again, your settings will be applied to the monitor.

August

Send event-based platform data to third-party applications via webhooks

Stay informed by integrating platform notifications into your everyday tools via webhooks. Configure a connection between the platform and a third-party application, like Slack or Microsoft Teams, for increased transparency and effortless updates.

Webhooks is currently part of a feedback program. If you're interested in joining the feedback program, reach out to our team at beta@levelaccess.com.

Filter Findings overview data by automated scan or manual evaluation

You can now view Findings overview by accessibility testing type in the Dashboard. Learn more about filtering findings data.

Password requirement updates for enhanced security

  • Platform users now must reset their password after 365 days. After 365 the platform will display an error message and send a password reset email.
  • Platform sign up page and reset password page now lists responsive passwords requirements.

New user management system updates

Note that these changes only apply customers on the new user management system.

  • Workspace Administrators no longer receive a restricted access message when attempting to create, edit, or reauthorize an issue tracking connection. Only Organization Administrators can create, edit, or reauthorize an issue tracking connection.

  • Workspace Administrators can now connect issue tracking integrations to projects, configure progress mapping, and configure required fields.

Two-page authentication available for automated and monitoring scans

  • You can now set up advanced automated scans and monitoring on webpages with two page authentication. For example, a website that has users enter their username on one page and their password on another page.

Other updates

  • The Dashboard now uses an abbreviated format for large numbers. For example, 14000 is now 14k.

  • Discover PDF option is no longer visible when you scan a list of pages.

  • A bug fix has impacted the Evaluations results page, where the Findings by severity over time chart won’t show any data from before July 2023.

July

Refreshed visualizations on Dashboard and Evaluations results page

Updated finding status classification

Other updates

 

June

  • The Analytics tab is now the Report tab. This tab contains new features like the previous scan comparison table, the rule status trend chart, and a list of favorited pages.

  • There’s a new Rules tab, which displays monitoring results by rule.

  • An arrow visual compares the data of the previous monitoring scan to the most recent one.

Updates to Accessibility Checker browser extension

  • The Accessibility Checker browser extension has enhanced Level Access branding.
    • Chrome: the extension will update automatically.

    • Firefox: download and reinstall the extension for the most up-to-date version.

Enhancements to design evaluations

Updates to Jira and Azure DevOps integrations

Reporting enhancements

  • Several reports within the platform are now exported asynchronously. This means that when you export a report, it will begin generating in the background while you continue to work in the platform. When the report is ready, you'll get a notification, and you can download the report from the link in the notification. The following areas of the platform have made this change:

    • Dashboard

    • Scans

    • Monitoring

  • The findings trend chart on the Evaluation results page shows data weekly instead of monthly.

  • Excel reports from the Dashboard now include all websites/apps in the workspace.

Other updates

February

Evaluation results page data

You can now track the results of each of your manual evaluations with our comprehensive dashboard. View findings by status, overdue findings by severity, track your findings over time, and more!

Component testing

Identify and track design components with potential accessibility issues using automated scanning. Scanning design components gives you a different way to visualize issues, helps you prioritize remediation tasks, and allows you to save time by remediating global components that exist across your webpages.

Create tasks from design evaluation findings

Manage the remediation of your design evaluations by creating tasks from design evaluation findings.

Access Engine is now available in the platform

Get the most comprehensive accessibility testing with Access Engine, Level Access’s industry-leading technology. Access Engine is the default testing tool for all new websites/apps and all existing websites/apps previously using ASLint.

The Dashboard

Find aggregated accessibility data from all websites/apps across your workspace. Use the Dashboard and its data to set organization-wide accessibility policies, identify the most common issues, and accelerate your accessibility journey at the organization level.

Monitoring enhancements

  • The Monitoring page has two new tabs:
    • The Components tab lists any components with findings from a monitoring scan.
    • The PDF tab on the Monitoring page lists any PDFs discovered in the most recent monitoring scan. You can easily upload the PDFs to the platform for PDF testing from this page.
  • You can now remove a monitoring scan.

Updates to PDF testing

Access Academy is new and improved

Other updates

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