Encompass - 2025.7 Release Notes

U.S. - 2 March, Monday evening | Canada - 2 March, Monday evening | Australia - 3 March, Tuesday morning

Release Highlights & Benefits

Accessibility Updates

This Encompass release includes a set of targeted accessibility improvements and fixes aimed at improving the day-to-day experience for institutional advancement teams. The updates focus on making the platform easier to navigate and use, strengthening accessibility compliance, and resolving issues that affect common workflows such as giving, events, memberships, and communications.

*Note: If accessibility concerns are tied to client-authored content or custom template design, we can still help. Please contact Support (or your CSM for template questions) and we’ll guide you to the best next step.

Encompass readability and messaging

Contrast enhancements for key messages: Improves color contrast for regular text in messages such as alerts and status indicators (supports WCAG 2.1 contrast ratio requirement of 4.5:1) (supports WCAG 2.1 SC 1.4.3 Contrast Minimum).

Account registration

Account registration lookup enhanced: After submit, focus moves directly to the first error if validation fails, or to the success confirmation when it succeeds.

Giving Forms

Group labels, alt text, and unique control identification enhanced: Designations group label and edit button on giving forms are announced correctly and are uniquely identifiable by screen readers (supports WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content).

Admin UI (top navigation)

Hide decorative cover images from screen readers (Admin Main Menu): Decorative cover images are treated as non-informative so screen readers no longer announce them (supports WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content).

Admin Main Menu navigation text contrast improved: Increases text contrast across common interaction states (supports WCAG 2.1 SC 1.4.3 Contrast Minimum).

Admin top navigation submenus enhanced: Submenus can be opened and closed using the keyboard (and dismissed with Escape) and remain available while focus moves through menu items.

Scoreboards (Ambassador Challenges and scoreboard custom controls)

Focus indicator enhanced on social media buttons: Social media buttons now have clear focus indicators so keyboard users can easily see where focus is on the page.

Pagination focus indicator enhanced: Adds clear focus indicators to pagination controls to Ambassador Challenge Initiatives so keyboard users can track position while navigating lists and results.

Initiatives menu button focus enhanced: Improves visibility and contrast of the focus indicator on the menu or dropdown button for Ambassador Challenges (supports WCAG 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast).

Tooltip content enhanced: Tooltip content for Ambassador Challenges now remains usable during interaction and can be dismissed without losing focus, reducing cases where tooltips were blocking navigation (supports WCAG 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus).

Initiatives progress bar contrast enhanced: Improves visual contrast of the progress bar in ambassador challenges (supports WCAG 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast).

Initiative goal text and pagination contrast enhanced: Improves readability for goal text and pagination controls, grid in ambassador challenges by addressing color contrast (supports WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast Minimum) (supports WCAG 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast).

Selected or active tabs no longer rely on color alone: Adds a non-color visual indicator for the selected tab (supports WCAG 1.4.1 Use of Color).

Corrects accessible names and selection options for color picker controls: Primary and Secondary color pickers expose clear accessible names that match the visible labels and adds an accompanying indicator so selections do not rely on color alone (supports WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name) (supports WCAG 1.4.1 Use of Color).

Share button keyboard accessible: The share buttons can now be reached and used via keyboard, with a visible focus indicator and correct semantics (supports WCAG 2.1.1 Keyboard Accessible and WCAG 2.4.3 Focus Order).

Class Notes

Descriptive accessible labels for “Edit note” controls (Class Notes Home): “Edit note” controls include context about the specific note and descriptive labels on lists so screen reader users can confidently choose the correct note and make edits (supports WCAG 2.4.6 Headings and Labels).

Class Notes Home focus indicators enhanced: Increases visibility and contrast of custom focus outlines on key controls (supports WCAG 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast).

Class Notes Home text contrast improved: Adjusts low-contrast text and interactive links in class notes to reduce missed information and improve readability.

Resolution

Functional Area	Reference	Description
Giving: Recurring payments	1292980	Fixes an issue where recurring billing emails could send users to the same “update card” link for multiple payments, preventing updates for a specific payment series. Emails now generate a unique link per recurring payment series so donors can manage payment details.
Memberships: Recurring payments	1730434 2156503	Fixes an issue where updating a credit card on an auto-renewing membership with scheduled installment payments only updated the membership record and not the related scheduled recurring billing entries. With this update, both the membership auto-renew and the future installment schedule use the updated card so future charges are linked to the new card data.
Event Forms: Cloning	2650018	Fixes an issue where cloning an event or event form template could fail when commerce-related fields were present, blocking admins from reusing templates for new events. Events and forms with commerce items now clone successfully so admins can create new registrations more efficiently.
Events: Attendee list	2664611	Fixes an issue where the attendee list could display an error page for some events, preventing the list from loading reliably for members or admins. Attendee lists now render correctly so event managers and attendees can access the information without interruption.
Events – Reports	2699736	This update ensures the selected delivery option is saved and displayed correctly so admins can confirm the report is set up as intended.

Release Details

Schedule: The release is targeted for February, 23, 2026.

Approval: The contents of this release have been approved by the Product and Engineering teams.