Thinking About Accessibility

[Tagger 2,722]

I don't think it can be understated how important the VHL Portal has been to the VHL's growth over the last ten season or so. We went from a league that pretty much had to contract to eight teams based on player count (even with a number of members having two players at the time) to a league that has 12 teams of full rosters and a big reason for that was how much easier the Portal made it to create and maintain your player in comparison to the old purely forum based ways of the VHL that were used in its first 60 seasons.

 

But, as a league, I feel like we could always do more to make the league more accessible to new members who come in and find themselves overwhelmed by how the league works. I've got a couple of ideas in mind as to how we could improve the league in that regard; one idea I've had involves making short 1 min or less videos for each PT that covers how to do them and then subsequently claim them in the portal, but I'll have to wait for the right time to record all of them.  

 

Another idea I had was maybe come up with another way of demonstrating what point tasks you can/cannot do in each given week. This isn't exactly as aesthetically-pleasing an example as I'd like due to my limited google sheets skill, but I think you can see the idea that I was going with here, just trying to set up a different way that people can see what's available for them to do each week in the VHL.

 

VHL Weekly Activities for Capped TPE
Main Point Task (For Up To 6 TPE/Week)		Mini Point Tasks (For Up To 6 TPE/Week)		Jobs
You can do one of the following each week:		A 150 Word VHL.com Article (2 TPE) *		You can also earn Capped TPE by performing jobs that help the VHL
A 500 Word Media Article (6 TPE)		A VHL Related Player Card/Graphic (2 TPE) *		Vacant Roles can be found in the Job Interviews forum.
A VHL Related Graphic (6 TPE)		A 5 Minute VHL Radio Podcast (3 TPE) *		Examples of VHL Jobs include:
A 15 Minute Podcast (6 TPE)		Ask/Answer Press Conference Questions (Up to 2 TPE)		Updater (3 TPE)
If you've done any of the three above in the SBA or EFL, you can claim them as Affiliate Welfare (6 TPE)		Answer VHL Trivia Questions (Up to 2 TPE)		VHL/VHLM GM (2 TPE)
		Review Other Members Main Point Tasks (Up to 2 TPE)		Recruitment Team (Up to 12 TPE)
If you don't have the time to submit a Main Point Task, you can claim for Welfare (4 TPE)		Note: You can do up to two of the three PT's marked with a *, but you can't do two of the same in one week (E.g. two Player Cards)		VSN Writer/Editor (Up to 10 TPE)
You Can Earn A Maximum Of 12 TPE/Week Through These Activities Combined

[Beaviss 4,957]

Yeah that's been a tough issue to tackle for awhile. I was thinking we could generate some sort of step by step guide that's built into the portal but that would be a ton of work for @Josh and or @Will. Maybe something that could trigger a reminder notification on the forums also. Something like "Don't forget to complete this weeks point task!" which would link to a relevant section.