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Join the Team

rachelwhaley edited this page May 19, 2020 · 28 revisions

Welcome to the VRMS 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.


Who are you?

See below to find a sequence of immediate action steps:

Web Developer

  1. Join the project Slack channel
  2. Post on slack channel requesting access to the project Google folder.
  3. Add yourself to the Team Roster
  4. Read the Project Introduction
  5. Go to the Development Board and select an issue to assign to yourself
  6. Memorize the README.md (just kidding). Use it to get up to speed on the codebase and workflow.
  7. Check out the VRMS Data Model Diagram to understand our data structure.

Accessibility standards

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


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