Joining the HackforLA.org Website Team - hackforla/website GitHub Wiki
Welcome to the Hack for LA website development team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.
If you have not read the Guide for New Volunteers, please do so.
- Make sure you can make the appropriate meeting times.
- Join the #hfla-site Slack channel and introduce yourself.
- Reach out to one of our PM's ⬆️ on our Slack channel with your Gmail address (To find the names of our PMs, check out our project page).
- Accept your Google Drive invite to access the shared folder and admin drive (only if required for your role).
- Add yourself to the Team Roster.
- Slack your lead (engineering/developer, Research, Design, Content) a link to the Team Roster. To ensure you get added to our Github.
- Read Introduction to the Project.
- Review How Hack for LA uses Kanban.
- Add any questions as comments to the guide to improve onboarding experiences.
Click the link that applies to you to find a sequence of immediate action steps:
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all websites be accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA function as the current legal standard for website accessibility.
Get acquainted with accessibility: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm
List of WCAG 2.0 Compliance Checkers