What's new

Enhancements

• Payslip table > Accessibility: Accessibility improvements to the Payslips table in Pay, to help meet WCAG 2.1 | 1.3.1.

Enhancements

• Home page inbox: You can now select the blue hyperlinks to display read-only details of the absence.

Fixes

• A fix has been applied that allows the current user to remain logged in and able to navigate the system if a 404 error appears.

• Arrow characters were appearing over the employees name in the top node of the Organisation chart, when in Simple view on smaller devices. This has been fixed.

• A graphical fix has been applied to the navigation arrow in the Organisation chart.

Enhancements

Bank holiday name: When you select a bank holiday in the Calendar, the name of the bank holiday will show in the context menu .

Absences across two entitlements: When booking an absence that crosses over two entitlement years, the entitlement summary for both years is shown, allowing you to see the effect of the absence on each entitlement year.

Fixes

• Entitlement widget: Entitlement widget was not showing hours and minutes. This has been resolved.

• See what's new: See what's new link now goes to the correct page in the MyCascade help centre.

• Date picker on mobile: Add to calendar wasn't displaying the date picker correctly on small mobile devices. This has been resolved.

• Restyle: Colour of selected dates and today's date corrected on date picker.

Enhancements

The following changes have been made to the absence booking form:

• Heading changed to Add to calendar.

• Date pickers modernised to allow text to be entered and automatically formatted to a date, for example; tomorrow.

• Time based absence booking now possible if the category or employee record uses hours and minutes.

• New entitlement summary added underneath the date selectors.

• Entitlement validation message updated.

• Date and person blocking rules have been added to the validation.

• Ability to change Date format to allow dates to be entered in a US or international format.

  Select your Date format in User menu > Settings and accessibility > Language and localisation.

Fixes

• The User menu did not show all the options if the Change Security Details item was not enabled in the user's role.

Fixes

• On the Calendar page, absence requests in the next entitlement year were not being submitted, this has now been fixed.

Enhancements

• The display name in the top right hand user menu now shows Known As and Surname.

• The absence booking form has several graphical improvements:

  • Changes to the Category/ Subcategory positions

  • The form now looks like a popup.

  • Addition of user theme colour to the comments section.

  • Employee photo now visible next to the comment.

Accessibility improvements

• Changes to the absence booking form to improve screen reader use.

Fixes

• The rate hours and rate value are now shown on the payslip.

Accessibility improvements

• Keyboard access improvements to the team planner.

Enhancements

• The Help button now goes to the new MyCascade help centre.

Fixes

• Absences with a zero duration now display correctly on the Calendar.

Accessibility improvements

• Keyboard use - Contact card now gets focus when opened.

• Contact card buttons now have improved labels.

• Screen reader - Calendar day cells now have improved accessibility.

• Date picker - Now have improvements for screen readers and accessibility.

Accessibility improvements

• Animations and transitions are now reduced if you have reduced motion enabled in your system or browser preferences.

• On the Pay screen, the payslip table's Download and Open actions have improvements for screen reader users

• Launch of new MyCascade app using PWA technology. Find out more About MyCascade App.

Enhancements

• New About page with version information and links to other areas.

• Improvements to the Calendar page entitlement summary.

• A new Add to calendar button to replace the previous plus sign '+' .

Fixes

• Correction to the redacted 'eye' shape on the Pay page

Accessibility improvements

• Screen reader improvements to the Org chart page.

• Contact card can now be opened with the keyboard.

• Screen readers now announce employee name followed by click to open contact card.

• Screen readers don't announce hidden content on the Pay page.

We are continually making improvements to MyCascade to help us meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.

Accessibility improvements

• The header Skip to main content link moves focus to start of the main content when using a keyboard.

• Redacted content on the pay page does not receive focus or is announced when using a screen reader or other assistive technologies.

• Improvements to the tabs on the Calendar page.