Language access blog post

[srigdon]

Let's write a Medium/Civiqueso/blog post about language access work.

To-dos before publishing

So, you wanna publish a Medium post?

Substance
Show what we did and how we did it:

• [ ] Lessons learned
• [ ] Research
• [ ] Implications

Content checklist:

• [ ] Refers to personas
• [ ] Quotes (1+)
• [ ] Photo or graphic (1+)
  Process
  
• [ ] Create an issue in Github.
• [ ] Update and complete editorial calendar to set deadlines, ensure accountability and consistent content production.
• [ ] Compose draft and edit. Aim to write at a grade 8 reading level.
• [ ] Complete A11y best practice checklist.
• [ ] Send to a member of the content team. Update issue and assign with requested deadline to return edits.
• [ ] Revise draft based on edits.
• [ ] Send back to member of the content team for final edits with requested deadline.
• [ ] Prep draft to publish on Medium.
  Images
  
• [ ] Choose in-house, project, or public domain photos. Don’t use stock photos.
• [ ] From in-house, project photos, make sure subjects in photos gave permission (signed a photo release) if they face the camera
• [ ] Favor active versus static subjects in photos.
• [ ] Specify dimensions: Full column-width images: 1400 px Out-set images: 2040 px Screen-width images 2500 px
• [ ] Include one to two sentence caption that’s short, snappy and descriptive.
  Accessibility: Add Alt-Text to images in Google doc
  
• [ ] Select image in google doc
• [ ] Right click (On Mac - Control button + click). Select “Alt Text…”
• [ ] Author alt text
  Add Alt-text to images in Medium.com
  
• [ ] Click edit story. Select an image in your story and choose alt text.
  Publish
  
• [ ] Create an account on Medium.com.
• [ ] Hover the cursor over your profile photo or initial on (far upper right of screen).
• [ ] Click, then scroll down to “New story.”
• [ ] Copy and paste your final draft.
• [ ] Click “Ready to publish?”
• [ ] Disable "paywall" content button
  
  Congrats! Your writing is out in the world