With the Spider 6.4.7 release, further improvements for accessibility are addressed in addition to those of Spider 6.4.6. This includes several functional and design changes. Grid and table views Grid and table views can be used with the keyboard to navigate through rows and cells. As soon as a grid gets focused, the following keys can be used for navigation: Key Description Right Arrow Move one cell to the right until you reach the last cell in the row Left Arrow Move one cell to the left until you reach the first cell in the row Down Arrow Move one cell down until you reach the last row Up Arrow Move one cell up until you reach the first row Page Down If there is paging available, get to the next result page of the grid Page Up If there is paging available, get to the previous page of the grid Home Moves focus to the first cell of the current row End Moves focus to the last cell of the current row Control + Home Moves focus to the first cell in the first row Control + End Moves focus to the last cell in the last row If sorting is enabled in a grid or table view, the header cells are selectable with the cursor keys, pressing the Enter key will trigger sorting of the current column. Page source and structure To improve experience with screen readers and other accessibility tools, the page structure has been changed to provide better content formatting as well as quicker access to different parts of the Spider pages via external navigation tools.  Contrast enhancements The web user interface has been modified to achieve WCAG compliant contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1. Therefore styles in backstage menu, ribbon, links, texts, and other controls have been adjusted. Backstage menu The backstage menu is now fully operable with keyboard controls, stepping through the tiles with the TAB key has been enabled. Menu items can be selected the ENTER key.   ... View more

With the recurring reminders feature, which is available in Spider 6.4.6 and above, reminders can be sent multiple times via email. Therefore, the form configuration for resubmissions has been changed to system forms, so that the user does not need to configure the forms anymore. With this feature, you will be able to configure recurring reminders directly in Spider, by specifying them only once. Various options are provided to ensure your reminding requirements. The aim is to not miss due dates anymore and you having a clear picture of the configured reminders. Reminders will be effectively send, starting from the initial date up to the end date (optional). Furthermore, reminders will not be sent (anymore), when the superior object is archived. You can set recurrence settings in the recurrence dialog, which is available  in the reminder forms (ResubmissionCreate / ResubmissionEdit). See the example in the create form on the picture below: After opening the dialog,  you can set the recurrence which meets your requirements best: Available recurring pattern options None: No recurrence, email will be sent once on the selected start date Yearly: Reminder email will be sent yearly or each nth year Monthly: Reminder email will be sent monthly or each nth month Weekly: Reminder email will be sent weekly or each nth week Daily: Reminder email will be sent daily or each nth day Additional scheduling options For fine tuning of recurring reminders you can set more granular scheduling options on the selected pattern. Send every nth year / month / week / day You can send reminders at configurable intervals. If you select the yearly pattern which starts in 2022 and choose every 2nd year interval, the reminder will be send in 2022, 2024, 2026 and so on. Avoid sending on weekends. Send the friday before With this option set, the reminder will be sent on a friday, if the calculated recurrence date is on a day on the weekend. This option is available for the yearly, monthly and daily patterns. Additional scheduling options (month only) Specific day: E.g. send on the 10th of a month First day of month: Reminder will be send each month on first day Last day of month: Reminder will be send each month on last day End date for recurrence When specified, the reminder emails will not be sent any longer than the selected end date Further configuration changes The search page of reminders has been changed: The column Date now shows the date on which the next reminder email will be send. The edit page now shows the date on which the next reminder email will be send, just below the date and recurrence field. The edit page has been enhanced to show a grid with the dates of when emails have been sent by the reminder (errors can be shown if occurred). ... View more