Moved the "Welcome" heading to the top of the page.
Slide Carousel: Removed 3 photos with people wearing COVID masks, deleted blurry stained-glass window background to remove clutter and make the slides stand out.
Reformatted existing text to improve readability.
Added a frame under the slide show, on the right for Upcoming Events; Now it says "Coming Soon." We need to make a decision about what we will display there.
Kol Nidre Appeal 2022/5783 removed and will be replaced when current year is available.
Make a Payment removed.
Donation link in Header Menu unchanged.
Make a Donation link is included in the new Ways to Give page and removed from the Support pull-down menu.
MJCBY Legacy Society removed
Sisterhood Judaica Gift Shop moved to Sisterhood page.
Services
Main menu link will be renamed Tefilah-Prayer.
New page: Tefilah (Prayer) replaced individual pages for Shabbat, Weekdays, Major & Minor Festivals, Youth Programs & Services, Lifecycle Events, B'nai Mitzvah.
B'nai Mitzvah documents removed and will be replaced by B'nai Mitzvah Guide, once editing is complete. Cantor Shana Chants the Friday Night and Shabbat Morning Prayers remains.
Youth Programs & Services renamed Youth & Family Services and moved into Tefilah-Prayer page.
Rabbi Gillman has approved all of this structure and content.
Community
Main Menu link will be renamed Get Involved
Sisterhood page was updated to the new format and includes the Judaica Gift Shop and Upcoming Events; other content unchanged.
GreaterMetroWest page has been removed until it can be re-written.
Israel page has been removed until it can be rewritten.
Menu Changes:
Header menu: delete Calendar - it remains in the Main menu and we'll soon have Events displayed on the Homepage (TBD).
Main menu: "Community" renamed "Get Involved" and "Support" renamed "Giving"
Footer menu updated to match the Main menu
1 These changes to improve website accessibility are somewhat technical:
On the web, all images have "metadata" - information about the image that is used by browsers but not displayed; one such field is called "alt text". We will ensure that all images have robust alt text descriptions so that a screen reader application can read aloud to the user what the image is about.
It is considered a best practice to use two techniques to highlight hyperlinks and state in the link text what will happen when the link is selected. Our current website makes it very difficult to distinguish hyperlinks from text (text is black and the links are dark blue) and most links have one-word text that lacks context. All hyperlinks will be "decorated" with contrasting color and underscore and the link text will be more complete.
Screen readers use the hierarchy of header tags: h1, h2, etc., to communicate structure, not for how they look visually. We will use all headers throughout the site hierarchically, to support the use of screen readers.
