The Agilebase platform has been progressing steadily over the past few months, in areas such as usability and accessibility. The following updates will become live in the next couple of days.
The most noticeable change to users for this release will probably be the removal of the ‘back’ button from the navigation bar at the top of the screen. You can now simply use the web browser’s back button to take you back through the history of records and views you’ve been looking at.
This is a much requested update from new users and also developers. The browser back button works in the development interface as well as the standard user interface.
On the accessibility side, we’ve continued working with Jon from Digital As It Should Be. You may have noticed things like keyboard controls (you can now tab through menus and options) being added. All the core components of the main user interface will soon be accessible, e.g. allowing the use of assistive technologies like screen readers, so that everyone can navigate around the system, view and enter data.
A refreshable braille display. Image copyright Rosenfeld Media under Creative Commons
Along with those updates, as normal, a variety of ideas and issues from customers have been addressed. If you reported an issue or suggested an idea which has been worked on, you should have received an email notification.
Finally, the AI documentation of complex systems is taking shape, we should have further info and demos of that to try out soon.
Please let us know if you have any changes to suggest in future.
In the news
Here’s an article about one of the people on rotation on our login screen, Fei-Fei Li. All these people helped develop the technologies which made Agilebase (and much of modern computing in general) possible.
Anthropic, a large AI company, recently published some ‘boosterish’ thoughts about the near future of AI, whilst Apple have poured cold water over things. Here’s our take on what to think of it all:
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