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On Tuesday morning, March 19<sup?th, from 12:00 AM – 8:00 AM ET, CU*Answers Network Services will be performing internal network maintenance. During this time, there may be brief network interruptions to our website and email hosting.
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TruNorth Federal Credit Union launches their newly redesigned website, now featuring the latest full site editing theme with draggable blocks for easy updates. The redesign introduces a clean, professional design, promotional banners, a modern customizable slider for promoting new loans, and a section dedicated to featured rates. Optimized for mobile users, the site ensures easy navigation and accessibility across all devices and includes a section for news and community highlights, keeping members informed.
Check it out here – https://www.trunorthcu.org/
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Please note that all CU*Answers Web Services hosted websites and emails will be impacted by this critical network maintenance project on Sunday, March 10th 2024.
The window for the scheduled downtime is from Sunday, March 10th 2024, from 4:00 AM to 9:00 AM ET and all websites and hosted email will experience some downtime.
For more information on the project and the timelines, please visit CU*Answers Client News.
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Members1st Community Credit Union launched a new website today. The home page includes: rotating banners for current specials, a section highlighting featured rates, a news section, testimonials and social media links. The design is a modern design that works and looks great on devices of all sizes. The new website is designed to help members and possible new members to quickly locate and acccess information. Take a look at the new website here: https://www.members1st.com/. Congratulations to the team at Members1st on their new website!
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Too often, website accessibility is seen as a checklist, but it’s much more complex than that. Having standards like the Web Content Accessibillity Guidelines (WCAG) provide a metric that we can measure against, often with a pass or fail scoring. But even with these guideliness, accessibility conformance cannot be automated.
Take for example, color blindness. Your design or corporate colors might pass for WCAG AA contrast ratios, but that’s assuming your visitor has normal color vision. What happens when your visitor is colorblind or colorweak. And, like most disabilities, colorblindness is on a spectrum, so each visitor might have a different perception.
Smashing Magazine has a nice article about the challenges of making your site conform to the guidelines while dealing with colorblindness. One big takeaway is this very cool tool: whocanuse.
CU*Answers Web Services has an accessibility expert on staff. Susanna is constantly staying up to date with guidelines and tools and educating our team. If you need help or are concerned about the accessibility of your website, check out our Web Quality Assurance program.
Starting at 12:00AM on 2-20 we will begin the monthly patch process for all the servers on the CU*Answers network. We are scheduled to be completed by 8AM.