Ally 1.47 | Release to production 10 August 2020

New features, Updated features

Ally for Websites web page feedback

The Ally for Websites feedback component is now available for web pages (HTML). In the Ally for Websites accessibility report, the score indicators for web pages can now be selected to launch the feedback component. Within the feedback component, a list of all identifies issues can be found, as well as a preview of the web page with highlights that show exactly where those issues have been identified on the page.

This complements the feedback and guidance that was already available for file content such as PDFs, Word documents and PowerPoint documents. Ally for Websites now provides feedback and highlighting for most content types, which makes it significantly easier to identify and remediate issues.

This feature requires the following to be in place:

  • The Ally JavaScript snippet needs to be added to the web page. This also allows for the Ally alternative formats to be made available on the page, although the JavaScript snippet can be added without enabling the alternative formats.
  • Institutions that have implemented any measures that prevent their web pages from being iFramed into other websites need to explicitly allow Ally for Websites for the preview and highlighting functionality to work.

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Ally 1.47 bug fixes and improvements

  • Improved the feedback and guidance for documents containing tables with missing table headings
  • Implemented several improvements to the Ally for Websites crawler to further improve the handling of very large websites