Language access blog post

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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