SF.gov newsletter

October 2022, end-of-month edition

Hi SF.gov editors,

Happy (almost) Halloween! 🎃 We hope your candy supply lasts you well into the holiday season.

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Monthly shareout

This month's shareout will be Thursday, October 27 (tomorrow!) at 2 pm. You can join the meeting directly from the ADM--SF.gov General channel on Teams or email persis.howe@sfgov.org if you want a meeting invite. 

We will be looking at examples of great department pages and data stories. And talking more about what the SF.gov team is working on now, like highlighting long titles and descriptions, and bulk uploads for PDFs.

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Training and support

Bonus office hours on Wednesdays!

We are providing another session for office hours on Wednesdays, 3 to 4 pm. This is another chance to get help for editors migrating their site from Drupal 7 to SF.gov. 

Sign up for office hours (Tuesdays 10 am, Wednesdays 3 pm) if you want to talk through any content questions you have.

Our current training schedule

• PDF training — Thursday, November 3, 11 am to noon (bonus session!)
• Images on SF.gov — Thursday, November 10, 11 am to noon
• 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

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

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.

NEW FEATURES

What's new for editors

Bug and UI fixes

We made the following improvements:

• The “See more news” button now appears on all browser types. Additionally, it now only displays if there are 3 or more new items
• Visual tweaks to headings and translations

Meeting dates and times

The date and time are now required fields for all meetings including cancelled meetings. 

New queues 

In coordination with the Permit Center, 3 additional QLess queues have been added to the wait time module:

• Permit Center: No plan/Trade
• Office of Small Business
• Public Health: Plan review

Coming soon

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.

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 screen readers to use the web. Screen readers 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.

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, Liz, Sharon, and the SF.gov team

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