Language access blog post

Let's write a Medium/Civiqueso/blog post about language access work.

**To-dos before publishing**

[So, you wanna publish a Medium post?](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KMFASGEiuEkWKdo4jeOmHZOfc02LKVsPiapxvD3IpkU/edit#heading=h.5zkr43xy0rg3)

**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**

Start with the linked “So, you wanna publish a Medium post?” guide and the checklist in this issue. Develop a draft covering lessons learned, research, implications, personas, a quote, and visual content, then complete accessibility and editorial review steps. Done means the final draft is prepared and published on Medium with alt text and the paywall disabled.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.