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Featured Field Notes Week five: LFW.com in Italian, a forms guide with live examples, and registrations in Australia, Norway and the UK LFW.com now reads in Italian, the eight-part forms series became one guide with working examples, four proposals went out (two of them abroad), and LFW registered to bid in Australia, Norway and the UK. 
Leland Fiegel· 5 minutes - Forms Web forms that people actually submit A guide to the forms people use to register, renew, apply and get in touch, with a working example of every pattern: input masks, error messages, email typos and more. Leland Fiegel· 11 minutes
- Field Notes Week four: Try LFW opens, eight proposals go out, and homecoming at WeWork Try LFW opened with six demonstration sites you can edit in your browser, eight proposals went out, LFW.com published its security and procurement practices, and WeWork Rosslyn held a homecoming. Leland Fiegel· 5 minutes
- Field Notes Week three: two proposals out, nine in the queue, and a federal registration Two proposals went out, nine more are ready or in progress, LFW is active in SAM.gov and joined the Arlington Chamber and ASAE, and Monitor now checks PDFs every night. Leland Fiegel· 5 minutes
- Field Notes Week two: five proposals, a sponsorship, and a Storybook Cafe Five proposals went out this week, LFW sponsored its first event, and the site changed 15 times. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Audit findings What a stranger learns about your site in one minute What a curious visitor, a vendor or an unfriendly scanner can read about your website in about a minute, and how the free audit runs the same checks for you. Leland Fiegel· 4 minutes
- Audit findings Login names are half a login By default, WordPress lists every author's login name for anyone who asks, so attackers only have to guess the passwords. Four changes close the list without locking anyone out. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Audit findings One color value: fixing contrast without a redesign Light gray text on white is the most common accessibility finding there is, and the fix is usually one color value in the theme's palette. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Audit findings Embedding video without breaking accessibility A pasted YouTube link arrives with no name for screen readers and often no captions. Here is what an embedded video needs and how to add it without touching the video. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Audit findings Why the page is blank for a second When a page stays white for a second, the browser is usually waiting on a stylesheet, a font or a script in the wrong place. Three changes end the wait on most sites. Leland Fiegel· 4 minutes