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New look Arlo platform is here!

August 27, 2024

It’s vibrant, accessible, and it’s got lots of personality! Today we’re excited to introduce the new modern look of Arlo.
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Bringing fresh energy into the platform with stylish colors, fonts and a host of slick new accessibility improvements, it’s time to roll out a sleek new experience. Our new design ensures more people can use the platform seamlessly, reflecting our core belief of empowering the delivery of great training for everyone.

Big, bold and modern

Welcome to the bright new look and feel of Arlo!  You’re in the platform throughout the day, so it was only logical for us to improve the experience and make it a more joyful place to be.

Now, the font and design is bigger, bolder, and stylish. Every element has been modernized and makes it more enjoyable to use. Plus, it’s so much easier to read – especially on smaller laptop screens and devices.

New icons make navigation a breeze

Bolder, sleeker and more recognizable – our icons have had an overhaul. Welcome improved navigation throughout the entire app, and we know you’ll agree they look so much better.

Revamped status indicators

We’ve also enhanced success, warning, and alert colors, and improved the contrast and accessibility. Whether a task is due, payment is late, your course is fully booked – you’ll see the status at a glance, and know straight away when to take action.

As you move your mouse over different elements, we’ve added a new shade that clearly indicates to you what action or item you’re about to click.

Meeting accessibility standards

The European Accessibility Act, scheduled for implementation in June 2025, aims to prioritize digital product accessibility for businesses and organizations of all scales.

Desktop and laptop screens have changed to access Arlo over the years, from dimensions to the quality of the screen. With new upgrades to the look and feel of Arlo, there was no better time to include these guidelines in our work. We were fortunate to have worked closely with a handful of helpful customers to gain valuable feedback as we worked to incorporate greater accessibility into the platform.

What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines?

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) cover a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible for everyone to enjoy across desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. It’s a series of recommendations that make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, or combinations of these disabilities.

If you’d like to learn more about accessibility, the guidelines we’re following and what we’re doing to make Arlo more accessible for all, click here for our Accessibility Statement. Curious about WCAG, and how it might effect your business, check out these 10 tips to make your training website more accessible.

Get started with the new look of Arlo

New to Arlo?

No sweat. Start a 14-day trial today to unlock all of Arlo’s powerful features for free. Manage course scheduling, registrations, payments, website, CRM, and reporting—all in one powerful and easy-to-use platform. If you’re looking for a more tailored experience, book a call with our expert team now for a 1:1 meeting.

Already a customer?

Log in to your platform now to see the magic! If you’re not ready for change just yet, or feeling a bit nostalgic, we’ve included a toggle at the top of the platform so you can switch back and forth between the old version and the new.

What’s next?

This is a first step of many to come to evolve our product to deliver a best-in-class user experience for everyone!  

We’ve got a raft of accessibility updates coming soon to other areas of Arlo, some examples of these include better contrast ratios for easy on the eye reading, keyboard accessibility for those that are unable to use a mouse, input assistance, compatibility with text reading tools and more. This is just the beginning!

P.s: To see a full list of changes and keep up to date with all things new with Arlo, head over to ProductBoard to catch up with work underway, newly released features and our release notes.

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