Our capstone team is tasked with creating the website from the ground up that allows users to submit an essay along with a PHQ-9 survey. This includes the front-facing HTML and CSS the user interacts with as well as the entire backend such as scripts, any cookies needed, and database infrastructure. The current state of the website is considered an MVP of the general design and user experience for the site.

The general design of the website is heavily influenced by the color palette DAD uses for their own website, while also following the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines for a highly accessible website.

Currently, any username and password will let you advance through the website as if valid credentials were provided. A separate team is working on an anonymous authentication API for us to implement on the login page, which when supplied with valid credentials, will return us a login token of some kind and some information about the school and contest that user is entered in. This allows the website to manage who has access to specific submission pages as well as give a slight level of customization for the submission page to help reassure the user they are in the correct location. This comes in the form of listing the hosting school's name, contest name, and possibly even the school's logo at the top of the page.