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October 9, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • BUGFIX: When using VoiceOver on an iPhone or iPad, some key presses caused an error, and the site's keyboard shortcuts didn't respond to them. Those key presses now work normally.
  • NEW: We've made a large round of accessibility improvements across the website, to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard. People who use a keyboard, a screen reader, zoom, or high-contrast settings should find the site much easier to use. An updated accessibility conformance report (VPAT) is available on request. The changes below are the ones you're most likely to notice.
  • CHANGE: Every page now has a "Skip to main content" link as its first item, which appears when you press Tab. Pages are announced to screen readers when you move between them, and each page has a main heading that names it.
  • CHANGE: Everything on the site can now be used with a keyboard alone, including menus, dialogs, the message editor's image and attachment tools, file and photo actions, database tables, calendar events, chat, polls, map markers, and analytics charts. When you close a dialog or menu, the cursor goes back to where you were instead of to the top of the page. Buttons, icons, and form fields all have names that screen readers read out.
  • CHANGE: Pressing Tab to a button now shows a clear blue-and-white ring around it, so you can always see where you are. It appears only when you use the keyboard, not when you click.
  • CHANGE: Some colors changed so that text is easier to read. Green, red, and blue buttons and badges are slightly deeper. The light blue Info and orange Warning buttons and badges now have dark text instead of white. Several hashtag and label colors (such as cerulean blue, tomato, purple, and blush) are slightly deeper, with white text; the lighter colors now have dark text. Small gray text, such as dates and counts, is a little darker. Several dark mode colors that were hard to read, including table headers, the current page number, and some link-style buttons, were fixed.
  • CHANGE: Links in sentences, help text, and notices, and the author links in topic lists ("Started by", "By"), are now shown in a heavier weight, so you can tell them apart from the surrounding text without relying on color. They're underlined when you point at them or move to them with the keyboard.
  • CHANGE: Tooltips now stay open while you move the pointer onto them, and you can close them with the Escape key. The abbreviated badges on Your Groups and in your feed (P, M, NP, NMM, and others) now have their full meaning available to screen readers.
  • CHANGE: Error messages that pop up at the top of the page now stay until you close them, instead of disappearing after a couple of seconds. Other notices stay for 10 seconds and don't disappear while you're pointing at them or have moved to them with the keyboard. A failed image upload now shows a message that stays until you close it.
  • CHANGE: On phones, the full title of a topic, chat, or wiki page is now shown on the page itself, since the header can only fit part of it. On very short screens, such as when the browser is zoomed in a long way, the header and bottom bar scroll with the page instead of covering most of it. Pages no longer scroll sideways on narrow screens.
  • CHANGE: Pages now tell browsers and screen readers which language they're in, matching the language you've chosen for the site, so screen readers use the right pronunciation.

September 25, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Changed the fourth and final batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5: the Messages pages (topics, messages, threads, search, hashtag pages, polls, drafts, posting and editing), the mute and follow pages, subscription settings and member notices, your home page and feed, your groups list, your calendar, account settings, login, registration and two-factor pages, profiles, the help center and API documentation, and the site chrome shared by every page (header, menus, sidebars, dialogs). This is plumbing, not a redesign; the pages should look and behave as before. With this batch the whole site is on Bootstrap 5 and the old framework is gone.
  • BUGFIX: On the Drafts, Followed Hashtags, and Muted Hashtags pages, the checkboxes still had the old style and the rows didn't alternate colors. Both now match the site's other lists. The button for removing hashtags on these pages was called Delete and was blue on Followed Hashtags; it is now a red Remove button on both pages, and it stays disabled until you check at least one hashtag. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
  • BUGFIX: A few badges and chips still used the old style: the NC (Not Confirmed) badge on a member's page, the RI badge in the Members page's reverification note, and the label filter chips on the subgroup members and subgroup direct-add pages. They now match the rest of the site.
  • BUGFIX: In the menus on the Files, Photos, wiki, database, analytics, activity, members, and pending message pages, the up and down arrow keys didn't move between menu items. They now do, as in the site's other menus. The wiki menu's Add Footer and Add Sidebar items are now greyed out when the page already exists.
  • BUGFIX: The Sort By menus on the Photos, album, and photo search pages, and the New/Upload menu on the Files page, couldn't be reached with the Tab key. Several menu items that open a dialog also couldn't be chosen from the keyboard, including New Folder and Upload Files on the Files page, Custom Range on the analytics and activity pages, Delete This Revision in the wiki, and Copy on the pending message pages. All of them now work from the keyboard.
  • CHANGE: The notes at the top of the group and member Integrations pages, and the messages shown when there is nothing to list on the Pending Messages, Drafts, Chats, Database, and Hashtags pages, were plain grey boxes. They are now the same light-blue box as your settings pages and the Followed and Muted Hashtags pages. On the Hashtags page of a group with no hashtags, the New Hashtag button sat right against that box; there is now space between them. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41279

September 18, 2026

Design & Accessibility

September 11, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • BUGFIX: In dark mode, the restyled list pages (/pending, /activity, /members, /exportgroup, /analytics, /banneddomains, /subgroupmembers, /managechatmembers, /chats and the rest) had lost their alternating row colours, and the row hover colour differed from before. Both are back to the way they were. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41160
  • CHANGE: The current page in page navigation is now highlighted in blue. Previously the only hint was the cursor changing when hovering over it, and the restyled pages had lost even that. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41159

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