{"id":6648,"date":"2025-02-03T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:41:56","slug":"dovico-timesheet-winter-release-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/03\/dovico-timesheet-winter-release-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Dovico Timesheet – Winter Release 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winter is in full swing and, while a lot of things tend to slow down when they get cold, we\u2019ve turned up the heat here at Dovico. With the Dovico Timesheet Winter Release just around the corner, let\u2019s dig in and see what\u2019s coming in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menu bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over the past few releases, we\u2019ve been working on improving the menu bar so that it\u2019s more accessible and all items are available regardless of screen size. We also made architecture changes so that our custom back button could be removed allowing Timesheet to work with the browser\u2019s back and forward buttons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this release, we\u2019re making some more improvements to the menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One improvement is a change in the color used, as shown in the following image. Dark blue is used by the views to highlight information like column headers. With the menu also using the same dark blue, it pulls your attention away from the view and can lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, as part of our accessibility improvements, the notifications and username menus are now accessible when navigating with only a keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accessibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As part of our continuous effort to improve accessibility with every release, we\u2019ve been hard at work making improvements throughout Timesheet. This release includes fixes for many of the WCAG 2.1 A<\/a> issues identified by the axe DevTools<\/a> including improved keyboard support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up until now, views with a grid had a keyboard trap where, once the grid received the focus, you couldn\u2019t tab away from it using only the keyboard. Now, if you tab onto the grid from another control, continuing to tab will bring you to each tabbable item in the grid and then on to the next control after the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grids now have two modes when tabbing that we refer to as non-edit mode<\/em> and edit mode<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-edit mode<\/strong> is the way things will now behave when you tab onto the grid from another control. In this case, there is no keyboard trap and you can keep tabbing past the grid. In some views, like My Timesheet, you may want to edit the cell that has the focus. To do that, you can switch to edit mode by pressing the Enter <\/strong>key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit mode <\/strong>is the way the grid has worked all along where tabbing only moves from one editable cell to the next. When you reach the last editable cell in the grid, pressing tab again will bring you back to the first editable cell in the grid. If you would like to break free of this keyboard trap, you can now do so by pressing the Esc <\/strong>key (Escape).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WARNING: <\/strong>Pressing Esc while editing a cell is also how you cancel an edit. If you made a change to the cell, and want to keep that change, press Tab to move to the next cell first so that the value is committed. Then you can press Esc to return to non-edit mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following image is an example of the tabbing improvements with this release. In views like Projects, you can now tab past the search box to the Search button, Create Project button, and then through the controls in the grid below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Quality Assurance department has updated the VPAT report based on the changes completed so far. If you\u2019re interested in viewing the report, you can access it here: DovicoVPAT.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned because, with every release of Timesheet, we plan to continue improving accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unicode support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unicode is a text encoding standard designed to support the use of text in all of the world\u2019s writing systems (<\/em>definition from Wikipedia<\/em><\/a>)<\/em>. Beyond the characters for different languages, Unicode also includes many emojis that can be used to help make that item\u2019s name and purpose stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our goals is to have all areas of Timesheet support Unicode by the end of 2025. To that end, with this release, the following areas now include Unicode support:<\/p>\n\n\n\n