Aggie UX WordPress theme v1.0.2 now available

This update upgrades WordPress to the latest version of Aggie UX — 1.13.2 — and fixes several accessibility issues, display issues related to Gravity Forms, and a few changes to WP Admin. View the changelog below for more details.

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Changelog

Changed

Upgraded the Aggie UX framework from version 1.13.1 to 1.13.2. This patch introduces some CSS fixes to Gravity Forms components, including hiding the honeypot and error validation styling.
Hid “uncategorized” category tags. “Uncategorized” is now removed from the list of categories everywhere on the front-end of the website. Before, if a post was in the “Uncategorized” category, that was displayed in a few places.

Policy-driven Updates

Added required Dublin Core meta data to comply with Texas law. 1 TAC 206.73 and 13 TAC §3.3 require the fields specified in Texas Records and Information Locator (TRAIL).

Changes to WP Admin

Disabled suggested third-party blocks feature. This Gutenberg feature suggests block plugins to install to users when they are adding a block to a page or post. We disabled this because many third-party blocks are incompatible with our theme, inaccessible or security risks.
Fixed bug that hid login button. The bug caused the login button to not appear when “Web team — local site login” was clicked. The login page now remembers if the local login or the login with NetID was used. The next time you visit the login page, it defaults to the method you used last time.
Disabled Gravity Form themes. If enabled, they conflicted with AUX styling. Thank you to Mark Bennett at Engineering for identifying the problem and for providing the code!
Allowed Gravity Forms Gutenberg block as a way to add a form to a page. Using a shortcode still works too.

Accessibility Fixes

Fixed heading level issue on card groups with featured cards. In some situations, headings were incorrectly ordered.
Removed title attribute from anchor links in cards. The title attribute was providing redundant information to screen readers.
Added tab index to skip linked images in cards. This prevents screen readers from reading links in cards twice (in some situations, cards with images are linked in addition to a linked heading).
Added a space between name and title in standalone blockquote. Some strings of text were separated with a <span> html tag. Visually, they were separated by a new line or a space but Siteimprove and other scanners viewed the text as not having a new line or space and was flagging combined words as misspellings.
Removed target=”self” attribute from card links. This attribute was unnecessary.