‍And Denis Goldberg

Many those

who saw

who knew

and even cared.

Doubtless they get their due elsewhere.

Fewer those

who knew the cold twist through the gut

the vomit taste of fear:

because they felt – and chose and dared

these words for them, for you.

You knew

the yardstick of success

knew the test of comfort, pleasure

chose another measure of your life

– no more than your brother’s.

We value it no less.
– Dave Evans in Poets to the People, 1981, Heinemann, page 20

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Debbie

We can also work on the layout order of things – but let’s decide on the handling of header images and then move from there.

DENIS’S LIFE page – poem by Dave Evans has wide line spacing on cellphone

Youtube automated subtitles sometimes wrong. Not in Anne’s interview or UCT (which I edited). We may not be able to edit those which belong to others.

The most irritating thing about website yesterday – found getting back from youtube to site – took ages or back to link. Did not happen with short ones embedded in Activities – open in new tab…

Optimise load times

Accessibility

Sarah – remove half-box around “own amount” block on Donate page: INCREMENTS

Some observations from Sarah: (to consider at some point -not urgent

• Submenus on media section –  take a look at organizational structure
• Newsletters – scrolling is not obvious on a phone despite that instructions are there. Consider a header for the different sections?
• Color Pallet – is it coherent end to end? Does it matter?
• View the archive headers on Denis’s life – make more prominent? Should message change when open?