What's new
What has changed on the site, from most recent to oldest. Corrections reported by readers are listed here too: an error that's been spotted is an error that disappears.
The counters page moves out, the simulator and the license repaired
The ODERSA publishes its attendance figures on odersa.org, recorded by its host, with no cookie and no embedded tool. The site therefore no longer claims that no audience is measured, but that no measurement tool runs in these pages; its own counters page goes, and the corpus counters stay published as open data. In the simulator, the outline that shows where to touch was almost invisible on the white screen: it now stands out. The clickable area of a quiz answer covers everything the hover highlights, and the reflex labels on the skill cards offer a wider touch area. The button that opens the CC BY 4.0 license was broken on the License page: it works. In Arabic, the tip of the message bubbles and the indent of the FAQ answers follow the direction of the script. In the translated versions, the amounts in a given exercise carry the same figures everywhere, and document names are written in each language’s own script.
The site moves to the ODERSA design
Colors, typefaces and layout are now those of the ODERSA, the same as on the other sites of the association: one red, one typography, the same header and the same footer. A trust banner opens every page and states what the site does, and does not do, with your visit. The inside of the simulated screens does not change, and that is deliberate: it imitates real interfaces, its colors are part of the lesson. The large numbers that carry the order of the steps take a readable ink; they were too pale to be seen, in the light theme as in the dark one.
Safety advice taken back to its source
The pages that deal with money and scams are taken back to their official source: the CNIL, cybermalveillance.gouv.fr and the French monetary and financial code. A refund for an unauthorized payment now carries its gross negligence proviso, and the burden of proof stays with the bank. An order paid for and never delivered is no longer confused with an unauthorized debit, and a chargeback is named for what it is, a card network service and not a legal right. On public Wi-Fi, checking the network name rules out look-alikes without proving anything, because a rogue access point can carry the exact name of the place. French reporting services are stated to be French in every language of the site, blogs and commercial publishers have left the safety bibliographies, and the Credits page names the subject of each photo in the language of the page.
Site launch
Clic par clic goes live: 40 complete skills spread across 5 groups, 8 cross-cutting reflexes, 211 exercise steps on simulated screens, a recommended path for absolute beginners, a page for helpers, and a corpus published as open data under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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How this log is kept
- One entry per publication, dated the day the site actually changes. Nothing is announced before it exists.
- Numbers cited in an entry are counted from the content files at the moment of publication, never copied by hand.
- No publication goes out if a check comes back red: internal links, content, contrast, and the structure of every skill are checked automatically beforehand.
- An error reported by a reader is fixed in the next content wave, and the entry says so.
- At every publication, the offline copy kept by your browser switches to a new version: a returning visitor gets the new page, not the old one.
The six-monthly review
Real-world processes change: a button moves, an administration renames a step, a reporting service evolves. So the entire corpus is checked again every six months, source by source, and every skill carries in its open data the date it was last verified. A wrong sheet is worse than no sheet at all.