Help nonprofits & artists with web site updates/admin

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Each year, Knowbility hosts an online competition/hackathon called the Accessibility Internet Rally - AIR. During this five-six week codefest, teams of web designers and developers volunteer to build websites for artists and nonprofits. The resulting websites are designed so that they are accessible to people with disabilities. After the competition, the volunteer designers and developers return to their jobs or classes. But often, the artists and nonprofits that got websites via the hackathon need some help with their new websites. They may need to replace some of the photos, add a page or two, or upload the AIR new site to their own web host from the Knowbility server. They may need more of their pages put into the new template their AIR team has created for their new website. Volunteers are needed to help these nonprofits with these new websites.

Volunteers will need to know FTP, know HTML, have built a website before, know exactly what they can and cannot do in terms of website design and development (so they can be clear about what they can and cannot do when working with nonprofit) and be committed to seeing a task through to completion. Volunteers should also know about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and how to incorporate these into anything webpage they create or edit for the nonprofit (never using "read more" and "click here" links, adjusting or eliminating menus that require a person to hold two keys down in order to make a choice, making sure alt-tags are appropriately used, ensuring all non-text content that is presented to the user has a text alternative that serves the equivalent purpose, images of text are only used for pure decoration or where a particular presentation of text is essential to the information being conveyed, etc.

You need to make a commitment to a nonprofit or artist for at least eight weeks, and you should be enthusiastic about making a nonprofit or client happy with their website. You should also be wonderful at communicating via email and be happy to talk a client through something on the phone, via Skype, via a free version of Zoom (to screen share), etc.

If you successfully complete your Knowbility assignment, you will get notice about other assignments before they are posted to VolunteerMatch, or we may be able to create an assignment specifically for you based on what you are interested in.