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For the web accessibility training I reviewed typography.com and the New York Times. Surprisingly, the NYT website had a lot of accessibility issues and is not a friendly site for visually impaired individuals. Typography.com did very well besides not having a clear header. After that I looked at a FIGMA site that was mocked up and had to quiz myself by listing out as many things wrong with it as possible and then compare it to the answer sheet.
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving break! The majority of what I did besides hanging out with friends + family is catsit. Here is Pirate waiting for her drink.
I don’t have a ton of updates, but here you go:
Pages STA Essentials KB
This was added to the KB! Pages STAs of present and future (orientation is this Wednesday) can view it as a resource and reference, a supplement to training by Michelle.
Web Development KB Assistance
I’ve started helping to copyedit web dev KB entries like the Github one. I’ve also started brainstorming edits for the Canvasser KB.
This week I mainly worked on trainings.
HTML/CSS training:
I did a project earlier making a batman business card which flips when you click it.
Now I’m styling a New Girl script and focusing more on transformations with Javascript.
I also included a personal project. I’m working on the front-end of an app for an org I’m in so this is a little video of the work I’ve done in React Native.
Hello all. Turkey (or tofurkey) day is almost upon us. Have this picture of Pirate judging my music taste.
This past week I’ve been doing a cocktail of things, enumerated below for your benefit:
COLA Web Refresh Project
As the actual migration bit has wrapped up for the Dean’s sites and we have not received any help or support requests, I’ve been reaching out to departments, centers, institutes, programs, and research units to gather contacts for the next phase of the project (to commence in January), as well as assessing each site for size, complexity, etc. I’ve heard back from the majority of the units assigned to me. We will likely try to reach out again sometime after Thanksgiving but before the holidays.
Photo IDs
There haven’t been any this week 🙁
HIS 314K Zamora
I reformatted a PPT from this professor on Wednesday.
Pages STA Essentials
A little while back, I sat in on a LAITS / Public Affairs meeting and showed them what I had prepared as a possible resource for CMSTAs present and future. It will ultimately live in the KB. Chris suggested that I add information on exporting image assets as well as max/min image sizes, so I did that as well as adding and adjusting other information on the doc.
I also need to add info on alt text, but I might wait to do that until I meet with Maddy and Estella after Thanksgiving to discuss the accessibility KB (as well as how principles and guidelines of accessibility can be integrated into the STA program more broadly).
I don’t have a ton of visual things this week, unfortunately. Here’s what I was up to:
The LRC people got back to me today, and they want some UT campus imagery on the second page to give a light sense of campus, seeing as this program is being advertised to international students. Here are a few images I’m playing with:
I also finished up my crochet blanket last week! Excuse the mess in the photo and the un-weaved in end, but it took me about a month to make (36×48 inches) and I’ll be donating it to the local chapter of Project Linus this week.
Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Points of Contact
To be completed: TBD (long-term)
Hey everyone. This past week I’ve mostly been working on COLA tasks and a few trainings. For COLA I’ve been fixing links for pages and now finding points of contacts for departments to facilitate moving into Phase III. 
I also submitted my HTML training and received feedback so I will take care of that when time allows and move on to other Web Dev trainings.