Reminders
What We Are Working on
Web Design System
- WDS 4.0: Still plugging along with not much to show yet.
Anticipated completion:- Beta: September 2025
A few websites we are working on will be launched with WDS 4.0
People will be able to request the beta version to test out. - Official launch: Late Fall or Jan 2026
- Beta: September 2025
- Headers in WDS 4: Some of the web team meet with the design team to talk about headers. We’ll bring them to Open Lab when they are available for review and feedback.
Projects
- Global Google Analytics Tracker: Our global tracker isn’t on all of the website across WSU, specifically non-WordPress websites. We’ll be reaching out to people about adding the global tracker to non-WordPress websites.
Submit a web support ticket as general help if you have a non-WordPress website that needs to global tracker. - AI Content Scrappers: We’ve experienced AI content scrapers overloading our servers. We’ll be implementing a separate caching server to serve the cached version of the website if our servers are overloaded. This will mean that edits will not be immediately available. There will be a lag. There will be an option to purge the cache to allow for immediate updates and bypass the cached version. Once this solution is implemented, we’ll provide an update.
New at Digital Accessibility
Jul. 11, 2025: Digital Accessibility Updates, Trainings, and Guides includes 4 digital Accessibility Fundamental videos (each less than 5 minutes), Alt text for Social Media, Captions and Transcripts Accessibility, and WCAG Rules for Infographics.
Upcoming Events
- Creating Accessible Documents – The Basics
July 16 at 7:00 am – 8:00 am - Creating Accessible Social Media Content: Designing for Connection and Inclusion
July 16 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Note About Trainings
These trainings from around the web may be of interest. These trainings are free unless noted. See the event’s information page for details on registration, changes, or cancellation.
Glitch List
- Alt text on profile images on profile pages is missing.
Submit a web support ticket to Report a Bug/Issue if you find a glitch.
Byte Size Tutorial
- Redirects: Redirects look for websites first before looking for pages. Super Admins on networks can change the website URL you are redirecting from for the redirect to work.
- Parent website to house the redirect of the subdirectory website: something.wsu.edu
- Current website to be redirected: something.wsu.edu/somethingtoo
- Edit the website as a Network Admin: something.wsu.edu/somethingtoo-archived
- Parent website: Set up the redirect: something.wsu.edu/somethingtoo to something.wsu.edu/something-else
- Use a * as a wild card for all the children pages on the subdirectory: something.wsu.edu/somethingtoo/* to something.wsu.edu/something-else