May full of Accessibility and Joomla events

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This month of may comes full of interesting events around Joomla and accessibility. But first...

Joomla 4.3.1 is out

The first minor release of Joomla 4.3 is out. This release fixes cookie lifetime issues, CLI updates for plugins and tags not showing ItemId in the url.

Vote for Joomla in the 20i FOSS awards

Til May 26 we can vote for Joomla in the 20i FOSS awards in the category of best CMS (Content Management System). These awards are organized by the hosting company 20i and are focused on rewarding the open source projects most valued by the community. Don't wait go and vote now!!

JoomlaDay France 2023 will be on June 17th and 17th.

The French-speaking association of Joomla users has announced that the JoomlaDay France 2023 will take place on 16 and 17 June in the city of Metz. The event will be face-to-face, and they call for speakers is already open. You may also sponsor the event to make it a success.

Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Next Thursday 18th we celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, an event that happens since 2011 on the third Thursday of May to highlight the importance of accessibility in our lives. On this day, many organizations hold face-to-face and online events with talks where they make us aware of the current problems and offer solutions for many of them. On the event's website you have all the agenda and activities to celebrate around the world.

New version of Sally library with Joomla improvements

The Sally accessibility checker JavaScript library has a new version available. This version includes many of the improvements that were made to incorporate it into the Joomla accessibility checker plugin (Jooally). A breakthrough for the library and for Joomla which will be able to incorporate the upcoming improvements with much less effort.

JoomlaVerse in week 18 of 2023

This week the Joomla world has not been quiet and we have the following relevant publications:

We found these relevant extensions updates:

In the next week, we have a packed agenda of Joomla events:

  • On Monday the 8th we will have a JUG D-A-CH meeting where they will talk about new developments in GDPR.
  • The meeting will be face-to-face and in German.
  • The JUG Australia meeting is announced for Tuesday the 9th, but we have not found information about the event on their website. Mind you, the event is virtual and in English.
  • JUG Madrid is coming back on Thursday 11th to talk about Joomla 4 improvements. You probably want to know Spanish but I'm sure they will feel you like home even if you just speak English.
  • On Thursday 12th begins the JoomlaDay Netherlands which for 2 days will have the main Joomla figures in Europe in its conference rooms. This event is an in person event and you may come if you speak English or Dutch

Finally we found this discount:

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