Autreach website(s)

”The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” — Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and founder of the World Wide Web (Web Accessibility Initiative)

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

The Autreach Network (autreach.org) and Autreach IT (autreach.it) websites are AutreachIT projects.

Proposed organisation of main Autreach site with public area, protected area for group members, page for each group, and sub-site for AutreachIT. Could also use parts of design for “portal site” layout?

• The online presence (website/forum/list etc) of a group will have a small team (may be just one person) with responsibility for maintaining it;
• the web person or team should have reasonable autonomy in choosing technical means to deliver whatever objectives the group decides for the service;
• however, among these objectives should be a way for anyone in the group to contribute or update content independently.

Public navigation panel

Home | About
Groups Directory
Resources & Links
Contact | Sitemap
Login: [username] (Go)

Site developers (autreach.backpackit.com users) should just click (Go) to login without entering username.

Member navigation panel

Home or Newsroom (for site developers) | Sitemap
Groups menu (AutreachIT: Projects menu)
Actions menu (AutreachIT: Public pages menu)
Resources menu
Edit message/button

(Actions/Groups/Projects/Resources are popup menus enabling direct access to what may become a large number of pages)
Edit message is “You can edit” or (Edit this page) button if looking at public version of page.

• Autreach public pages (autreach.org.uk)
  • Front page: general intro/news/reports of Autreach activity
  • About Autreach: includes Autreach Principles
  • Autreach Groups: groups directory – brief description, link
  • Resources & Links (public)
  • Contact: group contact details

• Protected pages (require backpack login)
  • (the public pages, possibly with additional private content)
  • Resources for groups:
    • Backpack notes (for group members)
    • Autreach Library: copies of docs not freely available
    • Action: A (collaboration page for multi-group action)
    • Action: B …
    • ...
  • Group: Autreach Network (virtual group to which all members also belong)
  • Group: AutreachIT Project
    • AutreachIT home page (as standard group)
  • Group X (each group has own bp site)
    • X home page (on X bp site)
    • X files (for group with free bp site)
  • Group Y
  • ...
  • Admin
    • uploads
    • website assets
    • developer blog