Two months after the publication of the initial call, the project Meta-Press.es is pleased to welcome Christopher Gauthier as part-time apprentice. He will work 3 days a week on Meta-Press.es during a year.

But a good news rarely comes alone, and he will be helped, during a maximum of 6 months, by Rémi Plancher recruited as part-time trainee, thanks to another exceptional disposition of the government allowing a candidate for part-time learning years to start with by 6 months as a voluntary trainee in a company, while searching for an apprentice contract.

Both started to work on Meta-Press.es adding new sources, lifting the numbers up to 200 sources, for 53 countries and 22 languages.

The v1.5.2 of Meta-Press.es, published today, also add some features in the source description format, such as :

Some documentation have been added and some more are still in the redaction process.

This version puts aside the update notification mechanism for the moment. It was relying on the localStorage API, and this last one is wiped out at each end of browser session in private mode (which is the default on TorBrowser). This was triggering the opening of the Meta-Press.es website at each new session… Sorry for the inconvenience. This functionality will come back based on the browser.storage API, which is kept between two browser sessions (at least still with Firefox 83.0a1).

Then, a work on accessibility have been started. For the moment it is visible as better contrasts for texts via the WCAG contrast checker tool, but numerous recommendations have been formulated by the Team Accessibility Foundation after the audit of Meta-Press.es via NGI0.

And to finish, Christopher is currently working this week on the replacement of the Selectr library (improved select multiple) by the Choices.js library which should solve Android problems for sources selections.