October 2025
The month in brief
Stability and user experience took centre stage in October. We introduced Patch AI to help editors write more effective alt text, tightened accessibility across customer themes, added section introductions to key blocks, and shipped several fixes that make everyday editing faster and clearer.
Deep dive: Accessible media at scale (Patch AI + Media Health)
Alt text is one of the fastest paths to real accessibility wins—but it’s also easy to miss when you’re moving quickly. This month, we built a two-part system:
Media Health in the library provides a live view of your assets’ accessibility status, including the number of images missing alt text.
Patch AI (Phase One) helps generate smart, editable alternative text suggestions tailored to the image context. You stay in control, approving, tweaking, or rewriting, while the system reduces the time to become more accessible.
Changelog
Improvements
Section Intros: Guide blocks (Rich Text, Video, Image, Interactive Map) now support an introduction section before the main content.
Custom Domain Support: Link your own domain to your guide to expand white-label options.
Alt Text Highlighting: Editors see clear warnings on any images missing alt text.
Media Health: The media library now tracks the accessibility “health” of images, including missing-alt counts.
Patch AI for Alt Text (phase one): Generate suggested alt text via tailored AI models, then refine before saving.
Call-to-Action Support: Accordion List, Card List, Gallery, and Picture Guide blocks now support call-to-action buttons within their content.
Fixes
Improved Button Styles: New hover and focus states across Different Breed experiences for stronger accessibility with customer themes.
Accessibility Modal “Toggle All”: A simple control to toggle all accessibility tags in the page editor.
Cache Clearing: Fixed an issue that prevented cache clears when a profile was missing a domain name.
Credits
Thanks to the team at The WRU for feedback that led to these improvements.