Update Notes February 13 2025
13. February 2025
With the current update, we have implemented the largest reorganisation in the history of CAAT. A total of 18,300 lines of code have been revised, which is around 12% of the entire code. While many of the changes are ‘under the bonnet’, there are also visible innovations that make the use of CAAT more efficient and flexible.
New icons and colours for status messages
The most striking new feature is the revised status indicators. CAAT now presents itself with new icons and colours that make the various statuses easier to recognise - both when auditing and evaluating within CAAT and in the generated reports. This visual optimisation helps to maintain an overview of the audit status and simplifies the evaluation of results.
‘Not tested’ status now available by default
The ‘Not tested’ status can now be activated in every audit if it is required. This is not an official status, but an optional addition for certain audit situations.
What does ‘Not tested’ mean?
There are situations in which a test step is deliberately not tested - not because it is ‘not applicable’, but because no statement can be made about it for understandable reasons. One example: If a customer asks for support and help pages to be excluded from the test. In such cases, the ‘Not tested’ status can now be used to make the documentation more transparent.
Custom status - more flexibility for different requirements
AAT now offers the option of creating custom status. Until now, the official statuses ‘Passed’, ‘Faild’ and ‘Not applicable’ were predefined. However, in practice, organisations all over the world use very different assessment patterns.
Example: Assessment scheme of the BITV test in Germany
In Germany, for example, the BITV-Test uses a more detailed categorisation:
- Fulfilled
- Rather fulfilled
- Partially fulfilled
- Rather not fulfilled
- Not fulfilled
- Not applicable
In order to reflect this flexibility in CAAT, we have carried out a comprehensive reorganisation (see largest reorganisation to date). Initially, ready-made status sets will be available. This will be followed in a few weeks by an editor that each organisation can use to define its own statuses. In the background, all user-defined statuses will continue to be mapped to the official statuses ‘Passed’, ‘Failed’ and ‘Not applicable’ to ensure comparability.
Further improvements ‘under the bonnet’
In addition to the visible changes, we have implemented numerous technical improvements to make CAAT future-proof:
- Preparations for the major feature of fully automated testing of entire websites - a milestone we will be unveiling soon.
- Text modules feature - for even more efficient creation of reports and ratings.
- An exciting side project
We look forward to presenting you with more features soon!
Changelog 2025-02-12
- New: CAAT-1465 introduce dynamic test-result-model, new test-result icons, new test-result diagrams
- New: CAAT-1838 release text modules as experimental feature
- New: CAAT-1878 update swedish translations
- New: CAAT-892 introduce dynamic additional audit options
- Bugfix: CAAT-1850 fix special character decoding in audit notes etc.
- Bugfix: CAAT-1873 fix exporter errors for WCAG-EM report tool
- Bugfix: CAAT-1135 rework grouped list of sample boxes