WW<CODE> Maker Bytes
Written by WWCode Core Team
Issue 118
We are building features for the Women Who Code community and we want to highlight that work with our stakeholders, you! THANK YOU to our contributors for dedicating their valuable time to help us build tech a place where women can excel.
You can follow all of our work on github. Below are a few snippets of our awesome features.
Released
During this weeks sprint we focused on front end design and copy changes to make the Women Who Code product even more accessible, clear, and easy to use.
Updated the Copy on the Companies Contact Form
– Revised the page title.
– Revised the H2 title.
– Revised the jobs label.
– Converted the social channels text field to a select field.
– Revised the social channels label.
– Revised the message placeholder text.
– Removed "required: true" from the message field.
Added Discernible Text to Top Nav Logo Link
– We added a ttle tag to the Women Who Code logo SVG.
– We added discernible text to the logo (aria-label and title to link element).
– This makes the logo more accessible via voice readers and code view.
About Copy Updates
– We added 3 new advisors.
– We updated Lisa Calhoun's headshot.
– We revised Sasha's title.
Our Website
Our repo is private, yet running under an open source license. Instead of pointing to issues and PRs, we are including a screenshot of what our weekly pulse looks like.
Existing website contributors, please check out our pulse!
Potential website contributors, please email coreteam@womenwhocode.com with your GitHub username to get started. It's built in Ruby on Rails + React + Postgresql.
Applauds!
Talk to us
Any ideas about existing features, new features, getting involved as a contributor, please share it in this FORM and/or watch our repos on Github.
To submit feedback, comments or questions email coreteam@womenwhocode.com, we would love to hear from you.
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