A dashboard for visualizing The Michigan Daily's alternative text on images published since January 2023. At the beginning of every day, a Cloudflare Worker runs and collects data on the previous day's images, both with and without alt text.
The primary purpose of this project is intended to be used as an accessibility auditor for the editorial staff of The Michigan Daily.
Install dependencies with pnpm install
To set up the local database, run pnpm init. It may take a minute to fetch all the data.
Then, to open your local development environment, run
pnpm dev
# or start the server and open the app in a new browser tab
pnpm dev -- --openEvery day, the worker runs via a cron trigger and collects data on the previous day's usage of alt text.
To test the scheduled worker, run pnpm worker. You can go to http://localhost:8787/__scheduled to trigger the worker task.
To test daily slack notifications on the alt-text-tracker channel, create a .dev.vars file in the root of the directory, and add SLACK_WEBHOOK=<your-webhook-here>.
Database reads are cached upon arrival on the main page, and are invalidated when the worker runs or after 24 hours.
Caching is not emulated on a development environment. To test the page with cache emulation, run pnpm emulate. Every time a change is made, you may have to wait a few seconds for SvelteKit to rebuild.
To deploy changes to the worker, run npx wrangler deploy. To change or add a new webhook or secret environment variable, run npx wrangler secret put <KEY>.