CHRISTOPHER SORAN: All right. Good morning, everybody. I'm Christopher Soran, application support manager here at the State Board. Welcome to the August edition of the ctcLink Accessibility Forum. All right. So on Saturday, we deployed the human capital management image 55 update. So I'm going to go over the accessibility changes that came in with that image. All right. So if you're an employee self-service and you go to a personal details and the veteran status page, in between where you have your name and the date, the screen reader would read out separator. And there's no extraneous separator element when you're in accessibility mode, so you can navigate the page as expected with your either a screen reader without extra stuff. On the employee self service, on the Enter Time tile page, the Enter Time grid, the fields were all misaligned. So I have a screenshot on the page showing how the field where you fill in the hours that you worked is off set. So when you would enter in what you would think would be for Monday, you'd actually be entering in hours for Sunday. So now it's actually lined up correctly. So it's more for the low vision users, but it'll be much better now that it's actually aligned and make sense. [LAUGHS] All right. Now, when you are running a search-- and so this is on more than just one search page. But for example, in manager self service, if you were to go to the approval payable time and you were to enter in the employee information to enter the search, so how it would work before was you'd enter in the information, and it would just-- each field would auto update. You see this churning, the pages loading as you're entering in the information and navigating to each next field. But the fact that the page was updating was not being announced to the screen reader user. So let me go and scroll down and show a screenshot. So there's a screenshot here of-- you seen that little circle loading piece as you're entering information in the, yeah, last name, employee ID, first name, what have you, whatever you're putting in there. And then even when you went to complete the search, there was no announcement to the user that there was-- for example, no employees returned for the time period specified. There would seemingly be nothing that had happened, and you'd have to screen read down the page to find the static text. So there's all this action happening without any messages. And so now when you go to execute a search for this example with no employees returned for the time period, it gets popped up, and you'll be able to screen read that notice that there was no employees returned for this time period. So now things aren't happening without any notice to the screen reader user. So that's a lot better. And then on the Update Person selector, there was a message group box that when it wasn't used, it was being hidden. And that added an unused h2 tag on the page. So say you're in manager self service and you're my team title, there was just this extra h2 status message that was-- you'd see if you looked at-- used the [INAUDIBLE] and reviewed the page. You see it listed in the headings, but there's no-- it's just invisible. It's not there. It's there when it's used, but then it would just stay there when it's not being used. So now that got updated, so now there's not random headings that don't exist. So yeah, that was the changes that came in. There were some other updates throughout the system that came with HD 55, but those are the accessibility-specific ones. Any questions. CRAIG KERR: No. Thank you, Christopher. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. [LAUGHS] Next up, we're working on CSS image, the Campus Solutions, and the HDX, mobile app. So that's in the queue being worked right now, reviewing all those. And then next up after that is the finance image. So the fall has a lot of image updates kicking it off here in August with the HCM one. CRAIG KERR: Yeah, that'd be good. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. The biggest chunk of accessibility updates comes with the PeopleTools updates. That's one I'm looking forward to. CRAIG KERR: OK. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. CRAIG KERR: Is that going to roll out? CHRISTOPHER SORAN: We'll be doing a minor PeopleTools update later this year, and then we'll be doing a major PeopleTools update at the beginning of next year. CRAIG KERR: OK. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. Oracle started to rolling some security fixes into their PeopleTools updates, so not just accessibility stuff. There's more in it, so let's get things going. CRAIG KERR: Yeah. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Not as much visible to users with those, but-- CRAIG KERR: Great. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: --some good stuff for us. CRAIG KERR: On a completely different note, and this may not be appropriate for this conversation. I just read an article about Canvas' hack that happened and how they're trying to beef up their security. What is both the state board and PeopleSoft doing in terms of ramping up that security? Canvas is a giant, right? And so-- CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. CRAIG KERR: --I don't know if this is the correct place or if I should ask that question somewhere else. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: The Shiny Hunters Group that hacked Canvas, actually, if the article I read was correct, they also hacked a PeopleSoft college in the UK, I think. CRAIG KERR: Oh, wow. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: And Oracle had a patch fix out the next day. And we had it applied. CRAIG KERR: Oh, wow, OK. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: --after. [LAUGHS] So we got that in right away. CRAIG KERR: Yeah, OK. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: So we do monthly-- you might have seen them references CPUs or Critical Patch Updates, critical security vulnerabilities that we're patching every month. Or more often. [LAUGHTER] CRAIG KERR: Rigth. With AI being what it is now, it's unfortunate for those folks that are trying to take advantage of other folks. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. Yeah, it is really too bad. Yeah, that whole Canvas situation was highly unfortunate. Yeah CRAIG KERR: OK. Thank you. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: So I don't know how familiar folks are with Nelnet, but Nelnet is a tool that students-- a service students can use to set up payments to pay for their tuition like over a period of months instead of upfront with their credit card or through financial aid or what have you. And they had a review of their tool, and there was 32 findings that they spent-- so the review was completed last June, and so they spent the last year. And this June, they completed all the fixes for all the findings. So it looks like they had one critical, 14 serious and 17 disruptive findings for screen readers, forms, keyboards, and low vision categories. And so this final status report has all the other completed findings for what wasn't working and which success criterion was being violated and when they closed it. So I've asked them if they want me to link to their site or if I can just post this up on our State Board site, but I'll get this out and post it for everybody once I hear back. So it's nice to know. They proactively went after this. We didn't even ask them to do this, and then they shared the findings and fixes with us. So it's very good to see. And we've done some initial review of some ConexED, some of the pages of ConexED. We just went live with that integration for the schools that are leveraging that particular tool, and so we're waiting to hear back from our submitted report, where they're at with their findings. And we'll update you as I hear back. And we can go over those findings as well once we have a little more information to share on this. Is any schools here using-- anybody here using the ConexED tool? OK. That's a OK. Yeah, it's an optional use thing. And, yeah, a lot of our Oracle service requests that we have with PeopleTools, we're going to get those fixes. So nothing else new at this time. Feel free to let me know if there's anything you want me to chat about or bring up, or I'm happy to post it here. And that's all I got for August's update. [LAUGHS] Yeah. Well, if anybody have any questions or thoughts or-- CRAIG KERR: No. Thanks for sharing this, Christopher. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah. Good luck getting ready for fall. [LAUGHS] SPEAKER 1: Awesome. Thanks, Christopher. Appreciate it. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, thank you all. You have a great day. SPEAKER 1: Yep, you too.