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Ricardo Aragon

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Ricardo Aragon

Worked on the pressbooks/pressbooks-book repository over five months, delivering features and fixes focused on accessibility, UI consistency, security, and workflow automation. Improved the book home page by unifying author and contributor styling using CSS and SCSS, enhanced accessibility through semantic HTML and ARIA attributes, and maintained code quality with expanded unit testing in PHP and JavaScript. Addressed security by sanitizing external links and DOIs to prevent XSS vulnerabilities. Streamlined localization by removing obsolete workflows and configuration files, reducing maintenance overhead. Prioritized responsive design and mobile usability, ensuring reliable widget positioning and improved user experience across devices and screen sizes.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

71%Features

Repository Contributions

10Total
Bugs
2
Commits
10
Features
5
Lines of code
196
Activity Months5

Work History

November 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

In November 2025, delivered a focused feature to streamline localization in pressbooks/pressbooks-book, removing the .po generation workflow and Transifex configuration to simplify localization and reduce ongoing maintenance. This work reduces pipeline complexity, accelerates localization updates, and mitigates future drift in localization configurations. No major bugs were reported this month; the emphasis was on feature delivery, maintenance reduction, and codebase hygiene.

September 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 monthly summary for pressbooks/pressbooks-book. Delivered an accessibility- and mobile-focused UI improvement: Ed11y Widget Responsive Positioning for Single-Chapter Pages. Implemented via commit 828362cad1e23907a01789d96422737c63576583, ensuring correct widget display across screen sizes, with special emphasis on small viewports. This work enhances reader experience, accessibility compliance, and layout reliability across devices.

July 2025

2 Commits

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for pressbooks/pressbooks-book: Security hardening and targeted bug fixes focused on external links and DOIs, with direct impact on user safety and data integrity. Delivered critical fixes to sanitize page-buy URLs and escape DOI URLs, reducing XSS risk and improving trust across the site.

May 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

Performance summary for May 2025: Focused UI polish on the Book Home Page in pressbooks/pressbooks-book to ensure consistent presentation of author/contributor information. Delivered a unified styling approach and responsive spacing improvements to eliminate overlaps and improve legibility, including adjustments to margins and the license section for a cleaner layout on large screens.

March 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 (2025-03) monthly summary for pressbooks/pressbooks-book: Delivered three focused improvements across UI, accessibility, and maintenance. The work enhances user experience, accessibility compliance, and software hygiene by delivering consistent license icon rendering on the book home page, improving interactive control semantics and ARIA attributes, and updating dependencies to current versions. These efforts also expanded unit test coverage and reinforced maintainability for future feature work.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness95.0%
Maintainability96.0%
Architecture92.0%
Performance96.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSHTMLJavaScriptPHPSCSSShellYAML

Technical Skills

AccessibilityBackend DevelopmentCSSDependency ManagementFront End DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentGitHub ActionsHTMLJavaScriptPHPPHP DevelopmentSCSSSecurityUnit TestingWeb Development

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

pressbooks/pressbooks-book

Mar 2025 Nov 2025
5 Months active

Languages Used

CSSHTMLJavaScriptPHPShellSCSSYAML

Technical Skills

AccessibilityBackend DevelopmentCSSDependency ManagementFront End DevelopmentFront-end Development