Greetings, everyone. So glad that you've joined us today for our chat about accessibility, video accessibility plug-in block. And so we look forward to chatting with you guys, especially since you've stayed after the NASA crew has left. So my name is Vaja Parker. I work at WDG. We work with open source content management systems. Wordpress is one of the open source content management systems that we use. We're actually DC based right across the River Arlington. We've had the opportunity to build enterprise Wordpress implementations for years now. And so really excited to share some of that experience with you today. I don't live in the area. I'm from Jersey City. So for all of you who are in the Northeast in New York City and in that area, really excited to represent from there. And I love biking and hanging out, looking at the view. I'm with you today with our technical director, Curtis, who will be co-presenting with me. Hi, Curtis as well. Like Vaja said, we are DC based, but half of us are not in DC anymore. I'm actually from the West Coast in the Washington state area. And yes, this is me from a previous life. I no longer do that on the regular, but yes. Code, catching fish, you know. Yes, exactly. But yeah, one of the particular things we want to talk about today is having a client that wants to contribute. And that's one of the big things that we ran into with the Ford Foundation, who's a wonderful client of ours, who they were facing an end of life CMS system that came to us a little over a year ago. And they wanted to move to WordPress and really kind of embrace the whole community as a whole. So it's really nice when a client comes to you and says that, and we want you to focus your work into not just helping us, but to helping the community as well. So having clients actually say that and you know, don't want to keep everything private is a real nice change for some kind. And it would be great to have an office like that, to have a arboretum inside your office like they do in the Ford Foundation in New York. And that's actually why we decided to give this talk, because as members of the open source community, we've always tried to challenge ourselves to contribute. But it's rarely initiated by a client. But what we realized is that there are opportunities left on the table. When you work on an individual website and it's not an open source application or when you build it all custom, then it's just within that one implementation of your CMS. But when you build a plug-in and you allow it to be submitted to the community, then it becomes more accessible to all. And the Ford Foundation understood that one of the reasons for moving from proprietary to open source was so that the good that they coded into their build could be made available to more people. And so I would challenge all of us the next time we sit down for a paid opportunity, you know, to have that conversation with your client. You know, you're going to an open source platform. Do you want to contribute any part of it back to the community? And what does that mean for them? What does that mean for us? And how can we start that conversation early? On the Ford Foundation in its mission is about social justice and it's about improving the humanity for people all across the world. And so for them, accessibility and the web was mission oriented. And so they wanted to take that to heart and everything that they did. And so we ended up coming into the project with this opportunity to build a video accessibility block. They understood that the accessibility that they were providing could serve as a foundation for something that could be used by more people. And so we want to talk a little bit about that process.  And we'll talk a little bit about accessibility. We have some WDG devs in the room too. So if you have technical questions, they'll be able to answer them with Curtis. And we can go ahead and move right along. The first thing is, you know, community influence. I think it's amazing how much WordPress has grown, right? We know all of the big statistics. But that means that we can come to the table and we can bring the improvements for accessibility that end up just trapped into one website and we can start unlocking them and giving access to others to use them. Now, we all know the big 40%, right? WordPress powers almost 40% of sites on the internet. But what I didn't know was that for all sites that have a CMS, WordPress powers 64.1%. That's from Search Engine Journal. And the closest competitor to that is Shopify, which is powering 3.2% of the market. And so if you're in open source and in WordPress and you release something back out to the WordPress community for WordPress as a CMS, then your reach is amplified because of the reach of the platform. The next thing that was startling when I started looking about where WordPress is today, 30% of the top 1,000 sites use WordPress. And so it's definitely, the data speaks for itself. The transition from the small mom and pop blog site, which is still possible today to being able to power enterprise level experience, it's where we are. But with that, the dark side of platform popularity is that with great power comes great responsibility. And we know that we've been learning that all day today because we've been learning about how not to get hacked, right? And so the positive is that when you introduce something to the platform, its reach can be exponential. The negative is that you're developing on one of the most popular platforms. So the opportunity for you to get hacked ends up great too. Now, why do we bring this up specifically? Today, it's because plugins are the biggest source of WordPress security vulnerabilities. And so if you take out all of the people that didn't harden their passwords and then you leave the rest, it's usually a plugin, a plugin that has introduced a vulnerability. So we don't wanna take it lightly when you have the conversation about contributing a plugin to the community because you could be contributing to the vulnerabilities of the platform if you don't go through the due diligence and the process of making it right. And so it's really important to realize that. It's really important to understand that it's one thing to create your custom functionality and put it in a plugin and put it in your website. It's another thing to release that back out to the community. And you just wanna make sure that you're giving the community all the good and you're not opening it up to the bad. And that was huge for the Ford Foundation. And just so that you guys know, FordFoundation.org is a relaunched experience. You can see their new Gutenberg block implementation of WordPress. You'll also be able to go into their video sections and see the plugin that we're talking about today, which is actually the video accessibility block plugin. It's on that left side of the screen where you see justice by the numbers and we're going to get a little bit more deeper into what that means for us. And so some of the opening questions for you guys to consider are, what websites are you migrating from proprietary to open source platforms? You know, think about that the next time you start a project. And if you're bringing something to open source, talk to the people that you're working with, see if there's any part of that that could become something released back out into the community. The second thing is think about the functionality that you're going to need to rebuild. Is that functionality that you're rebuilding because there isn't a popular plugin to support it? Is that an opportunity to introduce that plugin back into the ecosystem? That is something that you should consider from the very beginning. And of course, might the feature benefits that you are building for your clients benefit other people beyond your clients. And if you can think about that at the start of the project, then you can start setting aside the time and the resources toward the end of the project. So that once you launch it for your client, you can come back and refactor it for the community. All right. So let's get a little bit deeper into it. What is this plugin? What is it for? Why did they bring it to the table? All right. And so at the end of the day, the plugin is a video accessibility block. And it was brought to the table because ADA is required. The American Disability Act requires us to make sure that websites are publicly accessible. These are government websites and also other corporate websites that fall into categories that require them to have accessible content. In 1990 is when this act was released and the government will say that they've been suggesting that web content needed to be accessible since 1996. Now there have been revisions to ADA that cover a lot of what we do in the development of WCAG and all of the standards that have been published. A lot of those came out and started to formalize around 2015 and 16. But at the end of the day, if you work with government in the public sector or if you work with entertainment, banks, other parts of the private sector, then you are covered by this need for accessibility. And here's what happens. As soon as the government regulates something, it means that somebody can sue against that regulation. And I feel like accessibility got a bad rap over the last 10 or so years because people just started filing lawsuits to make websites more acceptable. And it became a challenge to the community to do better, mostly because the people were paying us did not want to be sued. It's important for us to realize that accessibility is more than not getting sued. And we will talk about that in just a moment. But there were 2,387 federal lawsuits filed in 2022. That's last year, against companies for non-accessible websites. So people do care and it is their right to sue. So if you come to a website with a disability and you're not able to understand the content or operate the website, if it is to be supposed to be accessible under ADA, you can be sued for it. And many websites have accessibility errors. Now, one of those websites that got caught up in the mix was actually Beyonce.com. It was one of the lawsuits that popularized accessibility and problems. And it became this new effort, a new initiative to double back down on making things available. What happened with Beyonce.com? There was a blind fan that came to the website to purchase a ticket and she could not navigate the experience because it was filled with visuals that did not have proper alt text for her to appreciate the path for her to navigate towards her purchase. And so she did sue the entertainment company that was responsible for Beyonce.com for the things that we hear every time we talk about accessibility, lack of alt text on graphics and navigation links, inaccessible drop down menus, inadequate prompting and labeling, the denial of keyboard access, empty links that contain no text, redundant links where adjacent links go to the same URL address and mouse only transactions. Literally textbook, it's like the top five or six things that you have to do before you launch a website and you know that it's accessible. Those were the things that this company got sued for. And so if nothing else we should be able to define what I will qualify as some of the lower hanging fruit for our accessibility measures so that we can start making sure that people can use the web content that we post. The biggest takeaway here though is that of course you don't wanna be the agency that designs the website that gets their client sued but let's get beyond that because it really isn't about the lawsuit. It is about access to content. And that is what Ford Foundation wanted us to understand. This is less about them getting sued because they have an inaccessible experience. This is more about them making sure that their great content is appreciated by as many people that can do that and they have been willing to make investments. Amanda Blade, one of the senior developers at WDG, the whole definition of accessibility is to break down those barriers. So everyone has the same functionality across the board and are able to do all the same things no matter what. That really is the goal, right? WCAG is gonna give us a checklist for compliance but the goal is to make your content as accessible as possible. Now some of it starts and ends with us when we position a content management system but other times you have to pick up with the client. So for the Ford Foundation, they came to us with content that was already accessible. So they came to us with videos that already had audio description narratives baked into them so that if you were unable to see the content of the video, then your screen reader, when it read the transcript or when you appreciated it through another tool, it would read to you the narration of the visual objects in the video that you could not see. And because they had that content already, we began to build plugins and things around that. Before we get specifically into the plugin itself, let's just talk about some web accessibility tips overall. Web and textability standards are broken down into three category, right? There's content and that's all the website parts and the code, all right? And so most of us when we deal with WordPress and when we deal with web accessibility, we're really working on the content but there are a couple other layers, right? There's the user agent, that's the browsers, that's the media players, that's the assistive technology to read the content on the experience and then there's software. That's the authoring tools. That's how we give people the power to make their content more accessible. All of these things matter when you're bringing accessibility to the table, right? So if you have an image and then that image needs alt text, that image needs alt text so that the browser or the screen reader can interpret it accordingly. And so you create that rich alt text with the source software tool and that's what makes your stack. So when we're working with WordPress, right? We have that WordPress admin layer. That's where you're going to add a lot of the accessibility alternatives for text alternates. You have your user agent. That's what's gonna rely on that metadata so that your content can actually be appreciated. It is so important that we understand that accessibility is about perceivable information. It is about operable interfaces. It's about understandable content and it's about robust compatibility because in order for some users to appreciate your content they're going to have to do it through tools that you had not already positioned. They're gonna bring their tools to the table to interpret your content. All right, quick question in the room. How many of you do develop with accessibility levels in mind? Excellent. How many of us are striving for level A to start? All right, and then double A? Okay, and then triple A. All right, that's usually the mix, right? A will leave you at some minimal accessibility but you're likely not to be compliant. And it's usually why nobody starts and ends there. Double A is where all of our projects start because that's where you can get compliance out of the project. That's likely what a lot of our tools are trying to get you to understand. And triple A for us comes up most specifically often in government contexts. And in government contexts when there's a specific disability in mind that they're trying to increase usability against. So for example, you might be in a context where your video is created but you need to include sign language. The recording of the sign language in your video in order for it to be triple A, okay? All right, so in working with the Ford Foundation we were trying to get to triple A. And we were bringing forward the accessibility principles. Why did I put these up here? All of us are working on accessibility. And I can tell you that I've worked with and that I've sold accessibility and that I had not read through all the principles on WCA. And if you have done the same things like use a color contrast tool in order for your designs to be correct but never actually read the documentation. I actually wanted to encourage you to do that. Do it while you're here. Do it while you're bored in this presentation. It's actually really, really well written and straightforward. And it takes us out of the crud of compliance and lawsuits and it brings us back down to why we create websites anyway. So that user information is easily and readily available. And so the accessibility principles are really well written and I'm going to go through all of them very quickly just so that you can say that you heard them and read them once, yeah? All right, one, text alternatives for non-text content. That is the most common thing that we need. It's often translated into captions and other alternatives for multimedia, right? And so those first two things can go the farthest. That means anytime you have image or video then you're going to need something else as an alternative for it, for somebody that cannot hear or cannot see. And so those are the first two principles. Text alternatives, alternatives for multimedia. Number three, content can be adapted to be presented in different ways. You can't be so attached to your user interface design that you think that that is the only way and users will visualize your content or hear your content or consume your content. Your content has to be almost headless from the interface so to speak so that other assistive tools can pick it up and digest it for the end user that needs it in a different way. Four, content is easier to see and hear. This is usually the level that we never get to as designers and developers because the content layers when the client comes in and enriches their new CMS with everything that we have and we usually just back away slowly from that. But it's always a good conversation to have with your client. How can this be made easier to appreciate? That's why we developed this plug-in for Ford Foundation. Five, users have enough time to read and use the content and that has a lot to do with what's going on with interaction and the screen with what's happening with the content and its accessibility to the end user so that it can actually be consumed. And content cannot cause seizures and physical reactions and that will be in every accessibility principle that comes back to and there's a set of things that must be considered. Seven, users can easily navigate, find content and determine where they are. Did you use the last site you launched with your keyboard and not your mouse and make sure that it worked with your keyboard and not your mouse? Because if it doesn't work with your keyboard then you haven't made it easily navigable by those that have other means to engage with content. Eight, users can use different input modalities beyond the keyboard. And so you have to make sure that you can help an end user get through the experience. I feel like about five years ago we felt really good about accessibility when we made sure we didn't exclude the skip link, right? From the navigation. It was like, all right, we did the one thing. But we are so far beyond that and people need so much more from the internet that we have to keep pushing. Nine, text is readable and understandable. Ten, content appears and operates in predictable ways. Eleven, users are helped to avoid and correct mistakes. So, eleven is really interesting. Eleven is kind of like if you're doing something and you're going through and you're providing text alternatives and then you don't provide it for a section, you don't want the end user to think that that section is empty. It's actually better to tell them that something's not done than for them to get to a part where they can't interpret it with the alternative text. And so you help the end user from drawing the wrong conclusion as they navigate the experience. And lastly, content is compatible with current and future user tools. And so that extending the compatibility of content that is something that we're used to, right? Because cross browser experiences challenge our compatibility. It's like that before accessibility. So don't forget the accessibility principles because they become really important when it's time to get down to what goes wrong. There is a project out. It's the web aim, a million project. It went through 100,000 home pages and it distilled some information from their check of those things. And these are the top six WCAG failures. And so, and they're not any surprise to us, right? One, low contrast text. Two, missing alternative text. Three, empty links. Four, missing form labels. Five, empty button. Six, missing document language. Ouch on six, yeah? But those six things again are the most popular ways in which accessibility does not come through to our end users that need them. The good thing is that these are probably the six things that are most easy to alleviate if we can empower our end users to do so. 96.1% of all errors detected from that survey of 100,000 home pages fell into these six mistakes. If you can make sure that what you launch for your clients is without these six mistakes and you've gone much farther than most. All right, so let's get beyond some of the most popular mistakes with accessibility. And let's talk a little bit more about video. We made a video accessibility block. And why did we do that? We did that because the Ford Foundation in creating its videos were creating two versions of their video. And so there was a version that was for people that could hear and see and it was completed. And then they create another version of the same video for those that cannot see the video. And in that video is what is called a narrative description. And the narrative description is there so that it can be read to somebody that cannot see the visual. So if you see the screenshot, right? It has text in the video and it says location, Massachusetts. You know, it was one of those intros where you can hear the typewriter t-t-t-t-t-t. And it types in all the letters in the front, right? But if you cannot see that, then you've missed the context of location, right? And so the video has to narrate that there is text typing on the screen that says location, Massachusetts, right? And so they created another video that includes this narration. So now they have two videos for every one video. And so we created a plugin for them to switch between their videos. And in that plugin is the opportunity to have a transcript that includes the narration. And then you have the opportunity to also click into more accessibility information. Because at the end of the day, you want the screen reader to be able to read the description. A large blinking cursor on a screen, words appear in digital type, location colon, Massachusetts. That is from the audio described narrative in the second video. And so for every one video, the Ford Foundation invested in the audio described narrative for the second video to make it more accessible for those that had different needs. And so accessible video, yes, it's multimedia. So you need captions, you need descriptions, you need a transcript. It requires intentional workflows, right? And those workflows start before it's time to reference the video. This is about content production and producing robust content. This is something that you have to come into the process with. Third, you do need an accessible media player. Know that our plugin is not a media player. The videos for the Ford Foundation are hosted and maintained on YouTube. And in Vimeo, our plugin works with YouTube and Vimeo APIs. The player itself is coming from YouTube and video. It's not a media player. But you know that you have to have an accessible media player when you're trying to offer accessible video. And then some videos also, like I said, need sign language for AAA. That wasn't the case for us. All right, and then there are variable requirements for video depending on if it's prerecorded or live. As you've seen, there is live video transcription happening right now because that is a great recommendation for live video. There are parameters for prerecorded video. And it also matters if your video is with audio or audio only. So your requirements for accessibility will change depending on those things. And then lastly, this audio description with visual information is required for prerecorded videos if there is important visual information. So it is required, okay? If there's important visual information, you should have audio described video. All right, so here we are, the plugin itself. And I'm going to go ahead and let Curtis talk directly to the plugin and to building the plugin into launching it. Thanks, excuse me, thanks, Vaja. That was a great introduction and why we all want to do this. Ford Foundation in particular was an excellent client about having this really at their core. This is the principles that they believe that you can't tell your users they're doing it wrong. You based on some kind of disability that they have. They are, you can tell your end, or your admin users that you're doing it wrong, but you can't tell your end users that you're doing it wrong because they have no other option in that case. So a lot of clients used to not care about that. It's wonderful to see clients making this, not just their purpose, but part of their whole mission. And being a foundation like Ford is a great example of that. The other thing I would like to add, when you go through the plugin, like Vaja said, it's not a video player. I just want to make that very clear. We do work with YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted videos for this, but it really is just kind of a framework for presenting, being able to switch between these videos at any given point. And so at that, what you do is you go in, you create a video, or you embed your video, or you can upload your video directly into the spot, and then you have a few different options. There is some transcripts location, and there's also this global accessibility statement that Ford came with that you wanted to tell people what they will expect from their accessibility, and that's always an option. So what we ended up doing, we created this kind of two-column layout heavily inspired by YouTube to really have the functionality right in line there. So we have the transcript available over here on the right by default, and then you have the accessibility statement that you can toggle to. Those buttons down below the player itself, those are actually inspired, but those are just kind of a tab structure, if you will say. The first button is special because it actually swaps between the videos, and then the other ones are configurable, where you can add multiple different types of things. You can have a transcript, you can upload it. If you have a text file or a VTT file from your video production, and that will automatically be imported here. And then you can also, if you don't have any of that available, you can actually just type out your transcript directly in that sidebar. So that's what this plugin was about. This came from their old CMS, they had that, and they really wanted to bring this forward to their new platform and reach out. One thing I wanna say about this plugin, it is we have not released it yet for Foundation just relaunched their WordPress build just a couple of weeks ago. Client work comes first, but then we're planning on releasing it to the plugin. Plus, we just went through a rename of the plugin, because there's two things that are hard in computer science, caching, naming things, and being off by one. But this will be available in the near future, and we encourage you, if you care about this, come help us build this, we'll have pull requests available on GitHub. We'll have comments, we'll have issues. We want people who care about this to really help us build this, and Ford Foundation is really also wanting to push this forward. So please come help us if you do care about this. So this is the dev site of the Ford Foundation, and we'll just do a quick demo here. The videos we have here, oh, no, no, put this down, is this one on? Is this one on here? Can you turn that up? So I'm just gonna go into one of these videos here to start someone that's already created. We have a whole video content type for them. And so one of the things that we have, oh, full screen, yep. Not used to Mac. All right, so one of the things we have here, Vaja also has her computer scroll backwards, but I digress. So you can see here, it's a bit bare bones because we want this to kind of blend in with people's themes as well as possible. The button styles here are directly WP block button and WP block button link for the CSS selectors. So it should blend in now. Of course, you can override any CSS you want here if you wanna customize it further, but that's what we thought would be the most sensible option as a default for people coming in here. Now this is Gutenberg only. We don't have a short code version of this for anyone that's still using classic editor or things like that. So you can see here, we've got the video. I'll go ahead and add a new one here at the bottom. So. How many people are building with custom Gutenberg block? All right, great. That was a big concern of mine. I was nervous, you know, because it doesn't have classic editor support yet. Yep. And I actually don't think that's in the plans. So I think that if that, if the, and that's where the GitHub comes into play. If you do care about this in the classic editor support, that's not been our focus for Ford Foundation in particular. Come in, help us build that. PRs are open, as we would say. So as you see here, it's very basic at the beginning. You have the embed URL, you have the video, the ability to switch between the two videos here. So you can click in here and I'm actually gonna go edit the secondary video now. And this is not, the primary use case for Ford is like Vajra mentioned is switching between the audio version and the audio described video. And that's why it's currently called video switcher. Now we've kind of renamed it and we'll be going through that process to kind of update the code to reflect that before we release it openly. But you could also use this in other contexts. You could not just use this for audio descriptions. You could use this for multilingual videos. Say you have one in English, one in Spanish or any other language. You could use it for the exact same thing.  And then you have this accessibility statement that Ford has placed. And one of the things that we did with the accessibility statement in particular, you know, that's not something you wanna edit on every post if you have a consistent one. So this is actually done in a settings page where you can go and where you can go and edit the, see it's currently called video switcher. I'll stay here for now. But the idea here is you have this accessibility statement across all of your video usage of that. We can disable this if you don't have an accessibility statement, but highly encouraged to let people know your commitment to making all of this accessible. So what we have then, you have your two URLs here. So if we go back to the other one, I'll just copy this URL. It's just, this is your standard embed block. This is nothing super fancy or technical here. The one thing that we do that we did add to the core embed blocks, looks like it's having an issue rendering at the moment. We did add all the video schema from the YouTube and Vimeo APIs. This also helps in letting screen readers in particular know more information about the video than just the video itself. So we actually go and grab the public information from the YouTube API. And we also support an API key in order to get extended descriptions from YouTube. And it automatically adds this to every YouTube and video block, even if it's not part of the video switcher or this particular block itself. And we also add it for the core WordPress videos as well. So it adds a schema data, metadata structure, kind of like H cards, the micro schema features of HTML. So you can see all of this data here. You can use this if you need to. And then you come in here, wrong one, so you can edit this URL. We have an update to this where it'll make it a little bit easier to switch between the videos. Currently, you have to go down to this button here and then toggle between the two. We're actually gonna render it where you have both videos rendered on top of each other. There's always a debate in our development teams is do you make it exactly like the front end or do you make it easier for the editors? That's always to pick your poison on that one. So in the back end particular. So that's what we have here. So you can, I'll just embed the same video twice. Not what you would do and not what you would actually want to do. So, and that's what you do. And then if you come back down to the transcript, you have the ability to upload a transcript. Currently, we're only supporting text and VTT files at the moment. We're debating whether we add more support for more formats, whether more that makes sense. We were thinking about, if you only have a PDF, is it okay if we grab that and put a download link to the PDF as opposed because you can't really render that in line. But that's really kind of going against what we're trying to do here where you're seeing it in the context of the video. So that's where we've landed at this point. Yeah, so this, and then if you go to the front end of this. So this is what it ends up looking like on the front end once YouTube renders itself. And we have this accessibility statement here shown by default, and let's see. Apparently the wifi's not great today. Let's try a different video. No, there we go. So this one only has, so yeah, that's the other thing. This one only has one. This, you can use this video with or without, or this block with or without audio descriptions and get all of the additional transcript features that are kind of built into it. So let's see, let's find one that actually has two videos. What was the one you were working on? I figured this is what, no. Yeah, so you can come in here and this is a much better example. So you can see here, we've got the videos here. We've got actually a download transcript button. That's the other thing we did on this sidebar. We don't know what we can limit you to. So we did make these kind of generic sidebar panels and you can create any block that you want in there. We created inner blocks to place within that panel so that you can really, if you have additional needs or you have additional blocks, you can integrate them well together just by placing them inside our panel. So you can see here, you have the transcript, you can download it, you can have the accessibility statement here as well and then you can switch between the versions. One thing that we have planned that is not available yet is that we will be able to synchronize the timestamps when you switch between the videos. Because currently when you switch between the videos it starts at the beginning because you're swapping embeds and that can get complicated. So one thing that we're targeting for the future is switching to that point in the video when you click switch. So that's on our roadmap as well. So yeah, I think it's fairly, when you think about it and really boil down to it it's really using it in an intelligent way and having a commitment to the process of building your video descriptions this way. Yeah, so at this point I think it's a pretty good overview. We will have it on GitHub soon. Come join us if you care about this and wanna help us build a better version of this. So thanks. All right, before you guys leave, one, don't forget video accessibility block is what it will be called. And then two, just wanna close out with a few more considerations. If you are going to go ahead and bring something all the way through to the community. The goal about that first, let's jump into a couple of the other use cases because I audio described video isn't very popular in my experience. The four foundation creating these additional videos was an investment in accessibility. And so if you do end up having videos to switch between for language or for accessibility purposes then that is the primary use case for this plugin, right? Just like Curtis said, there are secondary use cases that you can get into. And so if you ever have a video and maybe you have a video in a behind the scenes you could actually use it to switch between the behind the scenes. If you had a before and after video like you're doing some kind of reveal even if it's a website preview, you can do a video before, you can do a video of after. What will this allow you to do will allow you to pick to YouTube, to Vimeo, to self hosted videos. It will allow you to serve them and toggle between them with a transcript that can be downloaded and an extra statement that we're leveraging as an accessibility statement. And so definitely look into it for the primary use case for accessibility as well as for the secondary use cases. At the end of the day though, we want you to know that once you launch something for the client it's all about the relationship that you maintain with the client. When you launch something to the community you are making a commitment to support what you've launched to the community for as long as you keep it in the repo. That is the biggest challenge when you choose to contribute a plugin, all of us know.  Because then you end up vulnerable to introducing attack to the system through those that use your plugin. And so the biggest thing that we would just like leave you with is the commitment. You have to go through your code quality or documentation, your user experience or testing and then you have to plan for support and maintenance. And so we're grateful for an ongoing relationship with the Ford Foundation so that we can continue to maintain this plugin. But primarily once it's in the community it will be a community code base that will have to be maintained and updated separately than the code base that we're using for the client in the event that there are any differences in those changes. And so don't forget that if you're contributing to the community of plugin you can not abandon it. Because have you been there? We've been there.  Uh-huh. Do you contribute to WordPress plugins? If so, then you know the time it takes to actually make a meaningful contribution. And then lastly, if you're currently maintaining a WordPress plugin you have to plan to prioritize maintenance and support. It will be transparent. We're an agency. We have contributed plugins before. The biggest challenge is planning to support that plugin once it's introduced to the repo. All right, so we have like five minutes for questions. If you have any questions on accessibility on the video accessibility plugin or anything related to our work for foundation. I don't believe so. Had not thought of that at this point. Right, you'd get the just the straight up audio player. Yeah, no, that has not been a consideration at this point but that would be a great, I think, suggestion going forward. I had a few questions. The first is, since it is a Gutenberg block have you done any user testing with users that would be using screen readers? I mean, I know from my experience it's very difficult to navigate Gutenberg. It absolutely is. And we were targeting the front end user first. We did do some extensive screen reader testing since that's our primary use case for this video or for this feature. We have a little block at the beginning for the screen reader only that says a audio described version of this video is available so that you get to that video and you can switch to it before having to go through all of the videos of the, or all of the controls of the primary video. Does that make sense? Yeah, I'm more talking about from the editor. In the editor itself, yeah. The, we did follow Gutenberg best practices. We kind of kept it fairly simple as far as the block structure itself. And I think that's like a, there's six or seven blocks that we created that were all used in combination. But we didn't do extensive user testing of the admin. And so that would be a wonderful addition if you guys are able to help contribute that. All right. Any other questions? Yep. Like is Ford Foundation involved in the discussions of you open sourcing it and supporting it? They are actually the proponents of it. Yes. No, absolutely. It was their idea. We absolutely supported it. And they plan on keeping it going and it's gonna be part of their GitHub actually, their GitHub organization. And even if, you know, they no longer have a relationship with WDG at some point, they will keep that going as their commitment to WordPress in the longterm. I got what you said. For anyone else that didn't hear is, were there any challenges bringing it over from the external CMS to the new WordPress one? They did a really good job of documenting the features that we needed to have. So we actually didn't need to dig into what the previous system had. We just had the requirements for the new one. And at that point, it was much easier to scaffold out and build everything that we needed to. So, yeah, right there. Yeah, you spoke about making sure that the text content for accessibility that text is readable and understandable. So I guess, how do you make sure you do that in an accessible way? Like how do you take text and make sure that it's accessible and readable, so to speak, in an accessible way? You're talking about the text inside the video? Oh, no, I'm just talking about accessibility in general. Beyond just making sure that it's not up against a background that makes it harder to read. Like, what's the actual process of doing it? Oh, absolutely. I mean, WordPress has some controls in some areas for text contrast ratios. But that goes into the full process of the design. You have to have color schemes that make sense as far as color schemes. Now, as far as making text understandable, nothing beats actually using a screen reader. And a lot of times, the order of text may make sense in a visual format, but it doesn't make sense from a screen reader format. So document source order is important no matter what your designers tell you. So. All right, we are at time. We are really grateful for your questions and for your attention. And look up the Video Accessibility plugin. It'll be released soon.


Sumaking kanapehaka wewa. Tm mwza nshutwa nmau mtia kua tekia na tini kika wazumon ma cave shakhta. Na kwa wazumon ma cave shakhta. Tanapehaka wajun na kakajata. Tadpede kama kakajata koma mwza nsi na tini kika mapulladi ma mwza kajata. Nmia mwza kajata na mwza kajata. Kwa wazumon ma cave shakhta. Kignu kwa wazumon ma kakajata. Kama kakajata kama kakajata. ulahovu mkwungu iwa nga mkwungu nga mkwungu nga sbbesti and Braxton aia mkwungu kwa usti kutuntatatita kukunikia mkwungu nga lafarki kwa kubika nga mkwungu nga mkwungu nga mkwungu k mkwungu na kutumiku ag cues ana aizaya tansuru vash number 8 vash number 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, um shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me. I read one more time, Isaiah chapter 6, verse number 8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, um shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here I am, send me. God is looking for someone to send, very important. And that someone, that somebody, that person, could be you, could be you. That's you, is looking for somebody to send, to send to bring hope and good news to the people. Remember yesterday we were talking about reaching out to the cities and we saw from that text that God is looking out for the believers to seek for the peace and the welfare of the cities where they are dwelling. So this morning is asking then, oh can I send. We will not be revived and we sit. When the revival start taking place then we are agitated by the spirit of God to go out for mission. To become disciple makers, to make disciples and I said we have to be intentional. Let us not just end by listening and getting information and saying I know these things. It's a time for us to practice what we know and what we are learning every day. It's all about disciple making. So he's asking who shall I send and I say here I am I, send me. But also on this, when God sends, when God requests or is asking who shall I send, he comes with a package. The sending has a package. He will not send you without what to say. In fact God is asking who knows what I want to be said that I can send him. He is asking who is willing to go and just want to send somebody. It's when you volunteer then God gives you what to share, what to say.  He makes your way straight. He prepares the way before you. He only wants you to go. Think remember of Jonah. Jonah sent by God and Jonah went, in fact Jonah never wanted to preach. You see after Jonah preached in that great city of Nineveh and people, the entire city God converted. Jonah was very mad with God. He never wanted to speak. Even didn't know what he was speaking about. God, I'm just emphasizing the point that when God incurs you to go, he also gives you what to say and how to say. He prepares you and prepares the way. Well, the story here that is so captioned, smelling like an angel is a very interesting story. I just want you to listen to this story then I'll make final remarks. I'm just reading as I got this story by Sebastian Buxton. Here's the story. As I knocked on the door, a small framed middle-aged woman opened it slightly to greet me. I began explaining that I was going door to door selling Christian literature. She quickly interrupted me and asked if I could come back tomorrow. She appeared emotionally disturbed. I leaned upon my own experience and replied, ma'am, we don't usually come back. So if you're not interested, it's perfectly fine. We have some sample books I can offer you for about 10 to 20 dollars. Again, she dismissed my comment and requested I come back the next day. I quiescended and promised to return the door rapidly closed. A case of a literature evangelist under this moment, this morning, this afternoon, this afternoon, even wherever you are, if you're a literature evangelist, I respect men and women who work in the cities, knocking doors, giving all those printed pages so inspired. I have done that work. It's a work that you can't compare with anything else very impactful in the ministry. Now, this is a very interesting story. Now, let's sort of continue to say despite my stubborn resistance to the spirit, I returned to her home before I could even finish knocking the door opened and she invited me inside to wear in the kitchen. I was so actually convinced that this would be a waste of time that I did not even bring all my books inside with me. I soon regretted that decision. Sitting in plain sight was a blank bank check already signed. This meant that she was ready to purchase the books. She just needed to know the price. I began apologizing to the spirit for my lack of faith. Upon her return, she noticed the display I created on her countertop and said, I will purchase every book you have if you can answer me one question. In shock, I said, of course, anything. The other questions go, are you an angel? She asked, I shook my head. No, I am not an angel. Are you sure you are not an angel? She asked suspiciously, squinting. Yes, I am positive. You can ask my mother, she tells you, I said with a slight chuckle. I then asked curiously, why would you ask me that? Now, her response changed my entire understanding of how involved God had been in bringing us together. How God was involved in bringing them together. The woman told me that one year prior, she had a dream in which she dialoged with an angel. She told me that one year prior, she had a dream in which she dialoged with an angel whose face she could not see due to its brightness. When she woke up, thinking it was just a dream, she sat up and realized that the same angel was at the foot of her bed. The angel rapidly flew out the window and as quickly as she could, she ran to the window to catch a glimpse of him, but to no avail.  Now listen the ease of the smell. And of a powering smell rested in the room, the smell was pleasant but unfamiliar. She began a search for the source of the smell. She smelled every perfume, culling, harp, essence, air freshener, innocent, she could find none of them much until I showed up at the door. The woman told me, you had the smell. The smell that was left in my house by the angel that I've been searching for, that's now when you came in, you had the same smell. I was so overwhelmed that I panicked and asked if you could come back tomorrow. I figured if you want an angel from God, you would come back. And to think I almost did not return. I nearly missed an opportunity to be a part of a miracle of God by losing my heart for souls in the root of service. She went on to say, even right now, you still have the smell. Can you imagine? Even right now you have the smell. We prayed together and embraced and she requested Bible study. You see friends, this is very, very powerful and this way this door is entitled Smelling like an angel. One ear apart an angel comes into somebody's house and he leaves a smell and this lady has been looking and trying to figure out what kind of a smell. It's a good smell. She smells every kind of a perfume since she can, nothing that compares until when this literature evangelist walks into her house and she's shocked when she opened the door the smell was exactly that which was left by an angel one ear ago. And this woman panics and she treats bugs. She doesn't want to do anything. She asks the religious evangelist, please come tomorrow that she can figure out what exactly is happening. You see friends, God has a way of ordering the events and situations of our lives and in our lives. He has a way of orchestrating divine events and appointments.  Now this literature evangelist was giving up in fact she says when she came the second time and walked in she didn't carry all her books because anyway she didn't believe she could even do a sale. But look at this. God had prepared one ear before she could come. Can you imagine that? What opportunities we lose at times when God speaks to us in simple, common ways we don't recognize it was him and we lose the opportunity for our lifetime and for eternity. This moment of prayer. The question is when last did you pray that God may give you a divine appointment?  This indeed was a divine appointment. No, Isaiah says I had God calling and asking whom shall I send and Isaiah says I can't lose the opportunity. Here I am Lord on this appointment I'm ready for you. But how many of us we are still hearing God asking whom shall I send but we are neglecting the voice of God. As we pray today there are many souls dying and the song says where the social men are dying and the Lord calls for you let none hear your prayer let none hear your handily sing that it's nothing I can do. This varies up and go. God shall make a way for you. God shall prepare a way for you. He did it for this literature. He is doing it for many people. Do not sit handily in the house. Many people are perishing for lack of one who can reach out with the gospel of hope. And so this moment we are going to pray for specific divine appointments in our lives and especially this weekend and the season of 40 days of prayer. Pray that God may give you a contact a person for Bible study. God can give you somebody that you'll be doing Bible study with. God can do that. We are talking about divine appointments. God has a way of disarvanging and arranging orchestrating events just to give you divine appointment. Just be available for him. Have an attitude of being available for God and we shall be amazed at how much God will use you. So can we pray today and can we join with me? We are praying specifically for divine appointment from God. Gracious Father in Heaven Thank you for the privilege of listening to the story, the testimony of this man. Beautiful story here how God orchestrates event to give us divine appointments. And today Lord we are praying that you will give us divine appointment somehow in your own ways in your own means where even we cannot imagine or desire. You create situations and events that you give my viewer a contact of somebody who is yearning for the message, the gospel, for the want of God and that they can be an instrument in leading them to eternity. Lord, give us a testimony the way you give this person here a testimony. Give us encouragement the way you have given this literature evangelist here encouragement and for the many literature evangelist here in the city and across the globe. Lord we thank you for these men and women and we pray for them that they will never get discouraged even when it doesn't make sense still they can cover on for they are in a divine appointment. Lord I pray that you will touch our thoughts to see how glorious is the divine appointment that you have given us those of us who have accepted the call that we will seize the moment and utilize every single opportunity that many shall be reached out given hope and be prepared for eternity. Lord bless us and give us testimony once you give us the divine appointments and share with other people to know what you can do is our prayer in Jesus name. Amen. Lord bless you dear viewer for being with us today again. I pray that you may continue praying for the seven member list that you have chosen if you have not yet chosen we are praying for seven people in your contact seven people who want to commit to you but today we are also praying that God may give you divine appointment connecting you with somebody who is yearning to know Christ that you may be the pathway you may be the means you may be the bridge that will connect them to Christ as we continue praying through the day the Lord be with you.


Good morning, Vice Chair Peterson. I'm going to go ahead and send a prompt over to you. Thank you.  Get a quick question for you before we start whenever you're ready. Sure. So is it typical for me to read all of the findings starting on page 11 of the report? No, not for this meeting. Yeah, I've never seen that done. But we can ask Susie once she's here because she's really more of the expert than I am. OK, works for me. Good morning, Jesus. Good morning. Can you hear me OK? Sounds really good. Thank you. Excellent. I'll mute. And it looks like we have Susie join us now. Yes, I'm here. Good morning. Glad you sent a message. I just got up to my eyeballs in something else. I know Monday morning is an odd time to have a hearing. It caught me by surprise, too.  Timberlies my brain on Monday mornings. So was there a question that I can answer here? Yeah, that's my Vice Chair Peterson asked me a question, which I think I gave him the right answer, but I wanted to confirm with you. So I was just wondering if we typically read the whole findings of the report before the vote? We don't. We handle it very much like Planning Commission. If people ask, if somebody I have been asked how a finding was made, and I think at that point we can read it or explain it. But it's pretty straightforward. And this is such a I don't know what to expect actually as far as neighbors, the neighbors on Monteverde have never been too keen on any of those properties being subdivided, although they're fully aware of the situation on the north side of Monteverde. So I don't know if we're going to hear from anybody or not. But if it's the case, I think if we needed to, we could. And then you know you're pretty much running the meeting and I'll do a presentation, just like I would at the Planning Commission. Jesus is there to answer any of the questions that come up. Most of the questions usually are engineering. So we need his expertise there. Works for me. OK. And how? Oh, and we're just about ready to go. Just a couple more minutes. Yeah. Excuse me. I'm going to grab some water just so that doesn't happen while I'm doing my presentation. So it looks like it's nine. Should we give it a go? I think that would be fine. That would be fine. Hearing no objections. I'd like to call to order the March 28, 2022 meeting of the subdivision committee of the city of Santa Rosa. Due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders, N-25-20 and N-29-20, which suspend certain requirements of the Brown Act, the subdivision committee will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using Zoom webinar. Committee chair and staff are participating from remote locations and or practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during public comments or during their public hearing items will be able to do so by raising their hand in the Zoom meeting and will be given the ability to address the committee. Do we need to take roll? You can. You can. It's up to you, Julian. Sure. I'm sure. Well, I believe everyone is present. Jesus McKiegg, Susie Murray, and myself, vice chair of the planning commission. With that, I'd like to move to item two. This is public comment. This is for any member of the public wishing to speak on an item that is not on today's agenda. So if you want to talk about the Woodifield subdivision, this is not the time to do that. This is for anything else. If you wish to make a comment, please choose the raised hand on Zoom. Make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so.  Now, I don't see any raised hands. Is that accurate, Madam Post? Yes, yes. I don't see any either. And you can feel free to call me Kimberly. That's fine. With that, seeing no public comments, I'll close this item two and move to item three, the public hearing. This is item 3.1, the Woodifield minor subdivision exempt project, tentative map minor 5409 Monte Verde Drive, M-I-N-20-001. And I believe you have a presentation. I do. Can you confirm that you can see my screen? Yes, I can. So the item before us today is a tentative map, a tentative parcel map, because it involves fewer than four parcels. And it's a proposal to subdivide an almost one and a half acre parcel into three 10,000 square foot lots and with one remainder parcel. The remainder parcel is currently constructed with a home and other accessory structures. And there is no architecture required, nor is there any architecture proposed at this time for the three new lots. The only required entitlement is this tentative parcel map. Here's an aerial view of the site. And as you can see, the north side of the site along Spain is vacant. And that's where the three 10,000 square foot lots will be facing Spain Street. And then on the southern portion of the parcel, it fronts Monte Verde Drive. And that area will remain as one parcel. And that's where it's developed. So just to give you some perspective of the neighborhood context, the star is the subject site, excuse me. And as you can see around it, there's quite a lot of residential development with the larger lot development along Monte Verde and then a school down on Calistoga Road where that, where that field is. Not a whole lot of project history. The application has been in since January of 2020 with several stops and starts having to do, it was right around the time we shut down for COVID. There was a lot of delays there, but then as we finally got into conditioning, there were some questions and we had to do some revisions and what have you, but yay, we're finally here. So here are diagrams showing both the general plan and zoning. On the left, that light yellow color that you see is low density residential. And the parcel, as you can see, is kind of split in half. It's shown by the blue box. It's split in half with the lower half in an area designated as very low density residential on the general plan. So the difference in these two land use designations are the one on the north can be developed with two to eight acres or units per acre. And the one on the south is site, that very low density is 0.2 to two units per acre. So there's a significant difference in how many homes can be developed on both sides of that property. As designed here, both sides will be consistent with their respective general plan land use designation. And then on the right, as you can see again, shown outlined in blue, the area that has the very low density residential land use designation is zoned RR20, which is consistent with that general plan land use designation. What that says is that parcels need to be a minimum of 20,000 square feet. And then the northern area here, which is where the subdivision is really proposed, it's R16 and the minimum parcel size there is 6,000 square feet. So the project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act. And for several reasons, I think it's consistent with section 15303 in that it involves the construction or may involve the construction of three new residential structures. It also qualifies as infill development. And it's also qualifies for a streamlining measure because it's consistent with the general plan land use designation and zoning and ant. So here's an image of the actual map. So again, this is Monte Verde down here. This is Spain street up here. These are the three 10,000 foot parcels and then the remainder 30, it's almost 35,000 square foot parcel. And then during staff's review, one of the big circular issues that we got into is how do we ensure that low impact development measures will be applied when there's no new construction proposed? If there's any question on that, I am absolutely deferring to Jesus McKay who was very much involved in resolving that, but it did get resolved and there are no unresolved issues at this point. So I did receive one phone call last week and I explained the zoning district issues, that it was a neighbor, he didn't give me his name, he's a neighbor on Monte Verde and he wanted to know if there would be any more development along Monte Verde. And I told him that there was nothing proposed at this time and I think that the parcel that's there will remain looking like the parcel that's there. So along Spain Street, eventually we expect to see something different. That said, the parcel at the front of Monte Verde could by right install an accessory dwelling unit. And of course, anybody who talks to me knows I'm always encouraging that. So that concludes my presentation. If there's anybody that says called in and you can't see the screen and you do have questions, my name is Susie Murray and my telephone number, I'm there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I do answer my phone and I do return calls. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also reach me by email at SMURRAY at SRCity.org. That concludes my presentation and I'll stop sharing my screen. Thank you. So I don't have any questions for staff or the applicants. So I would move to the public hearing portion of this. Again, any member of the public wishing to speak on this item, if you wish to make a comment, please choose the raised hand on Zoom. Make sure to unmute yourself when you were invited to do so. If you're dialing in by a telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. And I see one raised hand, a Barbara Boyd. I have a screen shared here and I'm gonna go ahead and get the timer going. Can, let's see, let's make sure your sound is enabled there. Are you asking me? Yes, we can hear you. I can hear me, I can't see me. Yeah, we're in the webinar version of Zoom. So we are, we can enable sound, but we don't use cameras for anyone, but the staff and the panelists that are participating. Okay. So no worries, but we can hear you, just fine. Can you see the timer on your screen? No, but it won't be, I won't be more than three minutes. Okay, okay. Let me just go ahead and get that up there, sorry. Oh yes, now I can see it. Okay. So I'm just supposed to go on? Yes, whenever you're ready. Okay, my only concern is I have a home at 531-2 Spain, which is there's two locks between my house and the subdivision. And this is on a hill and there is a lot of water that comes down that hill. And it doesn't really affect my property, but my neighbor, I don't know for what reason that the county or the city allowed him to have the house so far down. It's considerably farther down than my house. So a lot of water runs off and floods his garage. I'm just worried with this new subdivision, if you don't do proper drainage, we could have a problem later on. Because right now, it can soak into the dirt. Once you build houses on it, more water is going to come running down the hill. I just want to make sure that you guys really get some good drainage when they do build houses. That's all. Thank you. Now I saw one other hand, which was a salt diamonds. So I'm going to get a prompt over to you. And when you answer that prompt, it should enable your sound. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you. Okay, thanks. I love it. This is Dr. Diamond. I live at 5339 Spain Avenue. I've lived here for 27 years. One of the reasons I bought a home on Spain Avenue is because it's been such a quiet neighborhood. I think if this construction is done, levels of not just the construction noise for a year or a year and a half, but traffic in and out has increased. There's a number of families who've moved in with very young children who like to play outside. It's a bit of a concern. I'd also like to mention most of the years I've lived here, I've had dogs. And when I walk my dogs, especially in the evening, I commonly see quite a bit of wildlife on Spain Avenue. I've seen raccoons, opossum, herds of deer twice a year. I hear owls at night. There was a family of red fox down where Spain takes a right angle turn. A few houses down from me. So there's quite a bit of wildlife that I think will be impacted by this. And that's basically it. I have concerns that the whole character of the neighborhood is gonna be impacted in a decreased quality of life if three new houses are put into that parcel. Thank you. Thank you. Now, I don't see any additional hands. So with that, I'd like to close the public hearing and turn to our planners and see. I think Jesus, the first question from Ms. Boyd is probably for you related to drainage and flooding in new developments and any sort of standards to deal with that issue. Can you talk about that a bit? Hi, good morning, Vice Chair Peterson and all those listening. It's my pleasure to help answer that question. Basically, with drainage design, they are, the developer must make sure that none of the flows from their site, it will impact other lots that are adjacent to them. And additional to that, any lots that do historically drain onto the property must either have that drainage taken into the lots individual drainage system or have it rerouted as a bypass out to the city system. So in no case would this new development be allowed to have impacts to its neighbors. And that type of a design is going to be worked out since they did not show the design for the houses. The actual drainage can't be shown on the map right now. That's something that'll be worked out with the development of the lots. But just to be clear, that is a process that the city and the construction portion of it will deal with. Yes, sir, that is great. And then I don't know. So we've got a couple from Mr. Diamond. I don't know if this is for you again, Jesus, construction standards for sort of noise and traffic, maybe hours of operation, things like that. I can take that, hey, Suze. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. So we do have, we have a noise ordinance and we understand that during periods of construction there is increased traffic, there is increased noise. I believe there was a condition of approval added onto this that construction hours would be limited to, I think 8 a.m. on Monday, Monday through 8 to 6, maybe on Monday through Friday. I can look, oh, I don't have that up on my screen. I was just going through it. I saw the same thing and I also can't find it in the moments, but it was great. I'm bringing it up right now and I know right where to find it on my report, but I typically add that condition when it's in a developed residential. Hours of construction, yes. On Monday through Friday, the construction hours when those homes are built, those three homes will be limited from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 to 5 on Saturday with no construction allowed on Sundays or holidays. Thank you, Kimberly. There I go. I have a brain on Monday morning. And so that kind of addresses the noise after the homes are developed, adding three homes to a neighborhood. I don't imagine that will have too significant an effect, although I will say that it has been intended for this type of development for years. And in fact, it could be a much more intensive development for 30,000 square feet of parcel. I think they could have gotten six homes there. So right now they're proposing three. With regard to the wildlife, I'm so happy to hear that you're still seeing the wildlife. Again, I don't think the additional traffic and at areas once construction is complete will have an impact on that wildlife. These are still going to have quite a bit of open space on the lots and the lots surrounding them. Yeah, and then as far as again, the quality of the neighborhood or it's not the quality of the character of the neighborhood, these are going to be three very... Significantly, they're very nice sized lots for the neighborhood and adding three more homes. It's three more opportunities for some really good friends, I think. So it's the land use that's intended for there and on the very low end of the density spectrum. So I think that addresses the comments. Great. Well, I have no remaining questions for staff or applicants. I think we've answered the public's comments. So at this point, I would turn to the vote on this item 3.1. I guess I can go in order here. Hey, Susie McKague. I vote aye. Thank you. Susie Murray, I think you're on mute. You're right. My dog was snoring. Aye. And I will also vote aye, making that three ayes in a unanimous vote for item 3.1. There being no additional public items on this meeting, I will adjourn the March 28th, 2022 meeting of the subdivision committee and like to thank everyone for their time and the public for their feedback. So we'll see you the next time.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and we're finally going to talk about the Funko Fayer happening on January 19th. That's right, you guys know me. I don't like to ramble at the start of the video. Besides, you know, telling you to subscribe if you're new and smash the like on the video. Of course, I go, I always gonna say that. We're just gonna hop right into it. So Funko is hosting a virtual event on the 19th of January called the Funko Fayer 2021 where they're going to be showing off new products for a lot of different franchises and of course, I'm talking about it because they're gonna show off some new FNAF products. Now I'm gonna be completely honest, 100% honest with you guys. That's all we know. Legit, that's all we know is that they're gonna be revealing some brand new FNAF products. That's it. We don't know, like, what characters we're gonna see. We don't know, like, what type of merch we're gonna see. Pops, Mystery Minis, action figures. We have no clue. So this video is gonna be a kind of speculation about what I want to see, what I hope we see. But to be fair, again, we shouldn't hype ourselves up too much because, I mean, we saw what happened with Security Breach not too long ago. So again, let's try and lower our expectations because, you know, it is Funko after all. Then again, you know, they've actually been doing pretty well with some of the new merchandise, right? The statues of Security Breach coming out in March the same month as the new gameplay trailer. As well as some of the new plushies. I mean, I know some people didn't like the Phantom Balloon Boy plushie, but I don't mind it. And I think we can all agree the Frostbear merchandise and the Security Puppet plushie top notch. So hopefully all this new merchandise is on that same level. So I have a little excerpt here from a article that I'm gonna share. Two week virtual event introduces new products for 2021 across the vinyl. Soda, Funko Games, Paka Paka, and Lounge Fly. I've never heard of those last two. Funko Incorporated Funko, or the company Funko. A leading pop culture consumer products company is kicking off 2021 with its first ever Funko Fair. A two week long virtual affair that will introduce fans and partners to new products expected to hit retail later this year. So that's something to keep in mind is that it's not going to release the second we see it. It's going to take a bit, but they all are expected to be released in this year. So keep that in mind. So this is a quote from the Chief Executive Officer at Funko. He says Funko is always discovering new ways to surprise and delight our fans by bringing the best of pop culture directly to them. Funko Fair is all about virtually showcasing the newest products that our incredible creative team has been working on for the past several months. This is a terrific opportunity to usher in 2021 with a fresh slate of consumer products that celebrate imagination and pop culture. The following licences have confirmed their participation in Funko Fair. Warner Brothers, including DC, the Pokemon Company International, NBC Universal, Five Nights at Freddy's, and many more. Additionally, there will be days designated for Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars branded products by Funko. Lounge Fly will also showcase their latest accessories. The fair kicks off the morning of January 19th with a new episode of Fun TV. I legit know who that is. A monthly short form production co-hosted by Brian Moriarty and Mike Becker. Sorry if I butchered those names. But the full plan for Funko Fair fans can follow along by tuning in to Funko's social media channels at original Funko. So that's it. Again, that's all we know is that from January 19th for two weeks running from January 19th to the 29th, we're getting new products about FNAF. When we're going to get them during those two weeks, I have no clue. Hopefully they release a schedule that would be very helpful. I don't know how many we're going to get. I don't know what products we're going to get. I don't know what characters we're going to see. Legit. When I say that's all we know, I mean it. That's all we know. So I'm going to spitball here and talk about what I hope we see. I think everyone can agree that the statues are some of Funko's best works yet. They just look absolutely fantastic, so I hope we see some more. Maybe security breach? Maybe not. It would be cool if they went back to some of the older games and took inspiration from them. Maybe like a Springlock failure? The Bite of 83? Maybe even the Bite of 87? Though I highly doubt it. The one statue I really want and I swear to goodness gracious Mamma Mia, if they don't make it, I'm going to be so mad. Mr. Hippo and Orville sitting in a pork on a bench feeding the birds sourdough bread. I mean come on, tell me you don't want to see that. But in all seriousness, I do hope we get some more statues. Even though they're like 50 bucks, they look incredible. There's been a lot of hype recently about the new withered wave which apparently has been confirmed, but I honestly have no clue. I believe that comes from like Puppet Steve or someone, so I'll take his word for it. I think showing it off at the Funko Fair would be pretty awesome. Not in line if they are making withered merchandise right now. Plushies, action figures, maybe even pops. Though I've heard that they stopped doing FNAF pops. I don't know if that's true. I don't know why. I do really like them though, so I hope they do some more for security breach. FNAF Help Wanted characters, FNAF Special Delivery characters, I mean they've kind of skipped out on Help Wanted entirely. No Glitchtrap merchandise, no Dreadbear, no Grim Foxy, like come on Funko, we're all waiting. And we do already know that more Special Delivery merchandise by Funko is being worked on right now. Mainly some action figures based upon Chocolate Bonnie, Chocolate Freddy and Chocolate Chica, which those last two aren't actual skins as of right now. Who knows, maybe this year we will see them. But yeah, we know 100% that those are being worked on. I mean really, I'm just excited for anything. Like I said, statues, I really want to see some more of those. More action figures, plushies, pops, mystery minis, you know, we have a lot of characters that need merchandise. Though to be fair, I think the one group of characters people are really waiting for would be the withered characters from FNAF 2. So I really hope we see some of them because, oh my god, we've been waiting so long and I think now would be a phenomenal time. Then again, we shouldn't get ourselves hyped up too much because if it turns out to be bad, we have ourselves to blame. I mean, take a look at what happened a couple of days ago again with the Security Breach tech demo that we all thought was going to be the official trailer 2. But then it was just kind of, you know, the trailer 1 but with more locations. So let's not get ourselves too hyped up because if they release some more recolors, oh boy, we're going to be upset. But I do hope we get some good things. Like I said at the beginning of the video, Funko has been incredible recently in my personal opinion. Again, I know some people didn't like the Phantom Balloon Boy plushie. I know people have some problems with the statues, but really, I think they're killing it right now. When Scott said things will be changing, he meant it and in a great way. So again, I hope we see some amazing new products by Funko sometime in that two week period. Again, I have no clue what day is going to be the FNAF day. I really hope they release a schedule soon because it does happen in like five, for some people, four days.  I'm sure they're going to pump out all that content first. So I'm guessing FNAF will be kind of later on in the event because, you know, when you compare FNAF to Marvel, I think there's a little bit of a difference. So, but then again, that's not confirmed. I'm just, you know, spitting straight facts, even though they're not facts. I'm talking and speaking of talking, I'm done. Thanks for watching. I know this video took a little bit of time to get out, but I just wanted to share some of my thoughts on the Funko fare. Again, let's not get ourselves too hyped up, but, you know, hopefully we see some good things. So that's it. Thanks for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye. Core Collection is coming hopefully tomorrow.


Clark Schmidt Clark 2020 was a big year for you in terms of baseball. What do you take away from that season? Yeah, I mean it was I definitely learned a lot. It was definitely obviously it was an unprecedented season with all the extenuating circumstances with the COVID and all that stuff. But to be able to make it up the other end have a healthy year front to back get all my outings in whether it was at the alternate site or up in the big leagues. It was it was a really good year. I took a lot away from it. I learned a ton whether that was being around the guys or just working on my craft. I felt like I made a lot of a lot of really good strides and I'm really happy with where things are at. What were some of those strides and what areas did you feel like you grew this season? Well you know working down in the alternate site it was it was really a lot of development. You know I mean working with Sam Breen and Desi our pitching guide directors being with them day in and day out having them watch all my throwing sessions all my you know bullpens and games or whatever it may be it was way more hands-on. So you I got a lot of development that you typically wouldn't get in a year. You could work on things whether that was pitch development. For me I was working on my foreseam profile. I wanted to add a little bit more rides my foreseam to complement my two seam and just continue to refine the command of my fastball and and being able to work down that on the alternate site was it was a lot of fun and I felt like I made a lot of strides in those areas and there's obviously some things I continue to work on and those are things that I'm working on right now. Just continue to clean the arm path up and continue to be able to repeat my mechanics late in the games or are the big things that I'm working on right now and just continue into to be a strike thrower and also just attack the zone and not kind of not be afraid to nibble around the corners. You talked about trying to get some more ride on that foreseamer. How do you go about doing so what are they identified to help you get to that next step. Yeah. So there's a lot that goes into it. I think that with the way analytics are in baseball now the way edge electronics wrap so does slow motion cameras all the stuff that we use track man's. I think that the pitch development is at a place where it's never been before. I think that if you really spend some time and really put focus on a certain pitch or whatever you whatever area you're trying to work on you can really make a lot of improvement and a lot of gain a lot of ground. For me it was kind of a lot of finger position and a lot of like finger pressure on certain points of the baseball. So being able to work on the edge electronic as multiple times a week being able to be on the wrap soda with these guys. They're so good at what they do. And I made a lot of really really good strides with it. And I think by the end of the year it was it was almost like a completely different foreseeing than what it was in the beginning of the year. So I was really really happy with where I'm out with that right now. Is all the information ever too much where you're constantly diving in and you're starting to think too much when you're on the mound. Yeah I definitely can be too much. That's that's where I kind of fall back on what I said earlier. I think that in a typical season when you're out this year being at the alternate site you don't really have to worry about you know results as much as you would in a normal season. So I could really really focus and hone in on what I want my profile of my pitches to look like and what I want my mechanics to do and what I'm trying to do with the baseball rather than just being like OK I really need to strike this guy out or get it out here. So that's where I think I gained a lot of ground in the alternate site. And I think but in a normal season it can definitely be a rabbit hole where you kind of pay a little bit too much attention to it and you kind of nitpick and then you kind of get that ball rolling down the hill and it's kind of hard to bounce back from. So you kind of got to stay yourself from from getting in those two deeper holes. But it's good to work on things especially now during this time during the off season. I think I'm I put more work in than I've ever put in during this off season. I feel better than I've ever felt. So it's one of those things where I'm trying to keep this work and continue to feel good and kind of keep these weeks going consistently where I'm feeling the way I'm feeling. How do you manage how much you train and how much you throw in this off season considering everything that went on in 2020 and not really necessarily having clarity as far as what's going to happen in 2021. Yeah I think that's that's probably the biggest question and the hardest thing to gauge. I think that a lot of the big saying last year was I'd rather be overprepared and underprepared. And I think that that's still kind of range true today. But in the same sense you're trying to you don't want to overdo it a little bit too much and there's times where you kind of back off and kind of have a feel for things. But it's tough. I think nobody nobody really knows when season is going to get started. I think nobody knows if the spring train is going to get pushed back or not. We all hope that it's all going to start on time and kind of the world goes back to normal. So I'm I'm preparing as if it is. So I'm preparing as if we're going to have spring training normal time in February. And and hopefully that works out. So for me I'm just going to continue to put the work that I'm putting in and then let it let those chips fall where they fall and and just know that I'm going to be extremely overprepared and ready to go when spring training to start or spring training starts. Has your confidence reached a new level considering the fact that you did get some reps in the majors last year. You talked about some of the progress with some of your pitches as well. Yeah I think it's if you look at my results last year I I didn't do what I wanted to do. I didn't have a very good year results wise. And I think typically maybe you would talk to somebody and they would say that would kind of hurt their confidence for me. I think it it put my confidence. I know that I can get these guys out. So it's not like nothing took a knock on it at all. I think that I learned so much from last year whether it was a short amount of time and innings and small sample size. But I learned a lot. And I probably would say it motivated me even more. So I'm at a place right now where I'm kind of hungrier than ever to get back out there next spring and and kind of show that these guys that I can compete and help this team win a World Series. And I'm excited to come into spring training fighting for a rotation spot. That's something that that means a lot to me. I think last year there was kind of some extruding circumstances with the roster size and limitations and stuff like that. I mean not being on the roster. And this year that's not the case. So I'm hungry and I'm ready to go. And like you said I mean my confidence is higher than ever just because of work that I'm putting in the preparation. I think for me the confidence lies in the preparation that I'm putting in and I've never put this much in before. So yes I'm very confident.


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In this video, I'm going to show you where you should find Zotero in your Microsoft Word, as well as your Google Docs ribbon or toolbar, so you can use Zotero to site in your documents. Once you have downloaded Zotero software onto your device, the new Zotero that is, it is automatically bundled to include your ribbon, a plugin within Microsoft Word and in Google. And where is that? So when I say ribbon, I'm talking about this toolbar up here. So when you download your Zotero software, you should have this Zotero feature or plugin in your Microsoft Word automatically once you reopen it. Sometimes this doesn't happen automatically, and I'll walk you through what to do in that case. When you're in Google, Google Docs, it will show up here automatically as well. It doesn't look quite the same, but the functionality is the same. And we'll talk about that in the next video. So what do you do if you do not see either of these options? So I'm in the troubleshooting tab of the Zotero guide, and there's some FAQ information about what do you do if you do not see Zotero in your Word ribbon. Restart your computer. Often it takes a system refresh to connect to Microsoft. So make sure you have everything saved. And you have down Zotero downloaded and just restart. Often that will fix the problem. If that doesn't fix the problem, you need to make sure that your Zotero connector, which I'm in Firefox and my connector lives up here. So this is synced to your Zotero software with your free Zotero account. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, you need to rewatch the syncing video in this series. Third option, if that doesn't work, is to make sure your Microsoft Word is updated to the newest version. And you have to use the downloaded version of Microsoft Word. The browser version will not work. So you, if you're an OU student or faculty member, you can download Microsoft Office for free from OIT's website. And then of course restart your computer after Zotero's downloaded and go through that step number two all over again. If that's not working, worst case scenario, then you need to explore Zotero's help forum that will give you step by step examples on how to manually download Microsoft Word for Mac, etc., to see if it can get effects for you.