SF.gov newsletter

June 2022, end-of-month edition

Hi SF.gov editors,

Happy July! Hope you all had an enjoyable July 4 weekend. We are back at it with some more tips and updates!

GET HELP

Training and support

After you register, you'll get a confirmation email with an .ics file. This email may be in your "Other" inbox.

You'll have to click on the .ics file to add the event to your calendar.

Our current schedule: 

• PDFs training — Thursday, July 28, 11 am to noon (bonus session!)
• Publishing on SF.gov (the basics) — First and third Wednesday, 11 am to noon
• Introduction to SF.gov — Second Wednesday, 11 am to noon
• Writing for SF.gov — Fourth Wednesday, 11 am to noon

Sign up for office hours every Tuesday at 10 am if you want to talk through any content questions you have.

You can always ping us on Teams if you have a question.

NEW FEATURES

What's new for editors

We want to talk to you!

We're been doing research on the challenges that editors face with SF.gov. Our goal is to identify ways to improve onboarding and training, documentation, and the Drupal interface.

We are looking for people to participate in 60-90 minute interviews. We are specifically interested in talking to people who are new to editing/posting, edit/post infrequently, or have struggled with editing/posting. These interviews will be conducted over Zoom, and all information will be kept private and confidential.

Latest updates

We've consolidated the "Related" section on transactions so there's less confusion when you add related content there. We've fixed text color issues on department About sections and various keyboard accessibility issues. We've also finished text field cleanup, so you shouldn't see the scary popup anymore! Yay!

See details in our June releases page.

Coming soon

Soon you'll be able to add links to archived department sfgov.org sites from Department and Meeting pages on SF.gov.We're continuing to work on combining department and public body content types, so that public bodies will be easier and more flexible to use.

We’re also improving a handful of accessibility issues, and translation editing

WINS

Latest launches

Adult Probation and the Emergency Medical Services Agency (part of DEM) have launched on SF.gov! 🎉

DID YOU KNOW?

Today's publishing tip

Alternatives to "click here" for links

We don't use "click here" to get people to use links. It's not accessible and discriminates against people who use screenreaders to use the web. Screenreaders read link text down a page, so if you use "click here" on multiple links on a page, the software will read out "click here click here click here click here." It doesn't help people get things done.

Blue underlined content (as on SF.gov) already indicates that content is a link. We can also encourage link use by describing the action that we expect them to take on the destination page.

If the link is the singular primary action we want our users to take, we can also make the link a button on transaction pages.

✅  Do for descriptive links

Upload your documents.

See instructions about uploading.

 ❌ Don't do for links

Click here to upload your documents.

Click here to view upload instructions.

Hope to see you on Teams! Happy editing!

Thanks as always for being fantastic partners, getting services and information to all San Franciscans.

Anita, Persis, Sharon, and the SF.gov team

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