Proclaim can now run your YouTube live stream. If your church streams straight to YouTube — no restreaming service in between — Proclaim creates the weekly broadcast for you, and after this release the entire admin area also meets the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standard, verified by automated scans on every view.

Live broadcasts on YouTube

Set up once, then going live each week is two steps: tick a box, start your encoder.

• Proclaim schedules the broadcast. On a new media file, switch on Create Live Broadcast and save — a broadcast appears on YouTube, scheduled at the media file's date, titled after the sermon. Nothing is ever created automatically; you switch it on per sermon.
• Your encoder is configured once. Proclaim provisions one reusable stream for the server, and the connection details — RTMP address and stream key — live in the server's new Live Streaming settings, with the key kept masked until you choose to reveal it. Point OBS (or your hardware encoder) at it once and it works for every broadcast after.
• Optionally, going live is automatic. With the server's "Go live when the encoder starts" switch on, starting the encoder starts the stream — no YouTube Studio visit at any step. It is off by default so a sound check cannot go live by accident.
• The recording takes care of itself. The broadcast's address is the media file's address, so when the stream ends, your sermon page plays the recording — and playlist assignment and description sync treat it like any other video.
• No orphans left behind. Delete the media file before the stream happens and Proclaim removes the scheduled broadcast from YouTube too. A broadcast that is live or already recorded is never touched — a recording is never deleted.
• Restreaming churches are unaffected. If Resi, Restream or similar creates your broadcasts, set the server to External (the default) and none of this appears — the restreamer stays in charge.
• Uses your existing YouTube account connection — no re-authorisation needed.

Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA

Every administrator screen and every public page now passes automated WCAG 2.2 Level AA scans — contrast, labels, names, focus — and the scans run on every release so it stays that way.

• Reordering works without dragging. Every orderable list (sermons, teachers, locations, and the rest) has Move Up / Move Down buttons beside the drag handle, and the layout editor's blocks and landing-page sections have movement buttons too — full keyboard and single-tap support.
• Low-contrast text, unlabeled form fields, and inaccessible tooltip and dialog markup were fixed across the admin — including three problems in Joomla itself that Proclaim now repairs on its own screens and has reported to the Joomla project.

Fixed

• The media file Options tab no longer shows a stray, non-functional Live Broadcast section for YouTube servers.
• Opening a brand-new Topic no longer prints a PHP deprecation notice on servers that display errors.
• The Terms of Use page no longer prints PHP warnings when opened without a media file to download.
• Assorted spelling corrections in admin text.

For developers

• A REST API acceptance test now installs the real release package on a disposable Joomla site — in continuous integration, nightly — and proves the API answers correctly before any release ships. The same guard runs in composer test:release.
• The E2E suite's login is retried, session-cached, and scoped to the sites a test run actually uses; local prerequisites are documented in tests/e2e/README.md.

Changes

What's Changed

• chore: bump active_development to 10.3.7 by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1333
• docs(release): user-facing 10.3.6 notes, wired into the release pipeline by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1334
• chore(deps): require cwm/build-tools ^1.8.0 by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1335
• chore(deps): require cwm/build-tools ^1.8.1 by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1336
• chore(deps): require cwm/build-tools ^1.8.2 by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1337
• fix(language): sync action-log keys into translations, and repair what the sync mangled by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1338
• fix(language): correct six typos in user-facing strings, and keep them out by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1343
• chore(deps): require cwm/build-tools ^1.9.0 by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1344
• chore(submodules): bump scripture projects to their build-tools-1.9.0 mains by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1345
• feat(a11y): scan against WCAG 2.2 AA, and fix what it found by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1340
• docs(a11y): reference the filed upstream issue in the subform shim by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1347
• feat(a11y): scan every admin and site view, and fix what the wider net caught by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1348
• test(a11y): scan the quick-icons module, and cite the filed upstream issues by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1349
• fix(e2e): retry logins, authenticate only the sites in play, reuse sessions by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1351
• chore(deps): weekly dev-dependency bumps, and the cleanup eslint 10.8 demanded by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1352
• test(api): REST API acceptance on a clean package install by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1353
• feat(a11y): non-drag movement for the layout editor and list ordering by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1354
• ci(e2e): run the package-install + API acceptance chain against a disposable Joomla by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1355
• feat(youtube): create scheduled live broadcasts from the media form (#1298 phase 1) by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1356
• feat(youtube): bind a persistent ingestion stream, and hand back the encoder connection (#1298 phase 2) by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1357
• feat(youtube): cancel orphaned broadcasts on delete, and opt-in auto-start (#1298 phase 3) by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1358
• fix(language): Squeezebox, not Squeezbox by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1359

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.3.6...v10.4.0