Magnolia
Accessiblity Statement
Last Modified: November 1, 2024
Accessibility
Magnolia fully supports all accessibility standards for building customer-facing experiences. Our current accessibility work, as detailed on this page, is to support the users of our application to create and manage digital experiences.
At Magnolia, we believe that accessibility is not just a feature or an initiative, but a fundamental right. We are committed to ensuring that our software is usable by everyone, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. This commitment aligns with the principles of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and goes beyond legal requirements to embrace inclusivity as a core value of our company.
As a result, we are committed to meeting the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards wherever possible—beyond the current required standard for compliance, WCAG 2.1. Striving for WCAG 2.2 allows us to prepare for future requirements and ensure a higher level of accessibility.
We also recognize the importance of these requirements for our partners and clients, especially those in the public sector, and we are working to comply with Directive (EU) 2019/882 on Accessibility.
The Magnolia user interface is not yet fully accessible. As it’s a large and complex product, the changes to improve accessibility will be rolled out progressively, and this page acts as documentation of that process.
We conduct regular reviews of our accessibility, and will continue to do so to ensure that we continue to prioritize accessibility for our users.
Roadmap priorities
Key accessibility initiatives scheduled for delivery in Q1 2025 include:
- Enhanced Global Search: The global search will enable everyone to get to the content they need faster, more easily, and with more control. Built in the new design system, meaning that the UI will be fully accessible.
- Accessible App Navigation: The keyboard navigation for the login, among the header items, and the “App Launcher” main home screen will be improved with visual focus indicators.
- Accessible Forms (technical preview): As authors spend most of their time entering and editing content in forms, this improvement will have a big impact on overall product accessibility. The new forms will be available for review by all customers.
Released updates
Key accessibility initiatives released throughout 2024:
- In-App Search for Pages and Assets (September 2024) Accessibility improvements to in-app search include full-text search, new filtering options, better legibility of highlighted words and copy improvements for more plain language.
- Improved Deletion Workflow (September 2024) Users benefit from better visual feedback thanks to informative success notification pop-ups upon submitting deletion requests or completing content deletion actions. Additionally, the Action Bar has been refined to improve the clarity of titles, action labels, and icons.
- Improved App navigation (September 2024) Each app has a new Home tab upon opening. This tab provides better orientation to the user and maintains better readability and consistency in the user experience.
- CKEditor 5 (September 2024) CKEditor 5 is compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (WCAG) 2.2 levels A and AA and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act unless stated otherwise in the Accessibility Conformance Report. All new Magnolia installations use CKEditor 5 by default, and existing customers can access it by upgrading to Magnolia 6.3.
- Design Refresh (September 2024) Magnolia UI has been updated to include improved contrast, textual status indicators, and larger—more legible—font sizes for improved readability.
- Bulk actions for Assets (February 2024) Users can perform a variety of bulk actions: downloading, uploading, publishing with significantly fewer clicks. Also the tool remembers the user's last used location, saving work and clicks for the user.
Contact us
We regularly review and update our accessibility standards to meet evolving needs.
If you encounter accessibility barriers on our public-facing websites let us know by emailing us. Please be sure to specify the webpage and assistive technology (if applicable), and we will make reasonable efforts to meet your needs.
For questions or feedback, please contact us at feedback@magnolia-cms.com.