Frequently Asked Questions

Every page is exactly one of six types — and you can tell by what it ends with:

• The Record — candidate profiles, Q&As, By-Topic: evidence, never opinion. Ends in sources.
• Lessons — teach one thing. End in a private quiz.
• Missions — guided journeys. End in action.
• Tools — charts, comparisons, games. End in “was this useful?”
• Hubs — doors on one subject (the kicker says so). End in doors.
• Back office — the covenant, privacy, this FAQ: the rules and the why.

The parts pages are made of:

• Gold box official · teal learning · green community voice (collects it, or a door to it) · plum evaluation · clay caution
• Fold — a teal-strip bar you tap open: something to do or look up
• Instrument — a form that counts the community: buttons say “Count my…” and always mean anonymous → published as combined counts only
• Quiz — a private self-check; no grades, nothing sent
• Go deeper — the outro at a page’s end for whoever wants more
• Kicker — the small line above every title naming the page’s family — tap it to go home to that family
• 🔖 Save · ★ Mine · 🔊 Listen · ↩ Back — yours alone, on your device, invisible to the site

The data words: a submission is raw and private · the gate is volunteer review · a finding is published, labeled, and dated · a mark lives only on your device · a count is the only thing that ever publishes. Approaches come from the record (what candidates and officials proposed); solutions come from the community (ideas you propose and evaluate).

The three form types: an Instrument counts (anonymous → combined counts) · a Content form sends words to the volunteer gate (publishes only if approved and de-identified) · a Contact form never publishes at all. Tools come in two flavors: charts (compiled, dated information) and interactives (you drive them). Mission stage lights: 🟢 Learn · 🟡 Consult.

Listening, yes. Every page has a 🔊 Listen button that reads it aloud — save lessons with 🔖 Save for later, then tap ▶ listen from My Journey on the road.

1. iPhone: Settings → Accessibility → Voice Control → on. Android: Voice Access app.
2. Say “show names” to label everything on screen.
3. Say “tap” plus a button’s name — every quiz answer and survey option here is a real button.

Answering is for passengers or parked — eyes on the road, ears on the lessons.

On a computer: hold Ctrl and press 0 (zero) to reset the page to normal size — on a Mac, ⌘ Cmd + 0. To make everything bigger or smaller on purpose: Ctrl (or Cmd) with + or −. This is a browser setting, so it may have been changed by whoever used the computer before you — common on shared and library machines.

On a phone: pinch with two fingers to zoom any page, and the site also follows your phone’s own text-size setting (Settings → Display or Accessibility) — turn that up and every page here gets easier to read.

Reading by ear: every page has a Listen to this page button near the top — read aloud by your own device, private, nothing sent anywhere.

Two official places. DiBB (Diné Bibeehaz’áanii Binaaltsoos) is the Council’s own legislative-record system — every piece of legislation, filterable by year, committee, and sponsoring delegate, from introduction through final vote. The Council website’s legislation page lists each year’s actions in plain view.

Worth knowing: the legislative process includes a public-comment window on DiBB before committee action — meaning you can read a bill and comment on it before it’s voted on, not just after. The full eight-step process is on the Office of Legislative Services site.

The Office of Legislative Services (NNOLS) publishes the Code. One honest caveat you should know: the codified Code runs current only through 2009 — laws passed since then exist as resolutions that haven’t been folded into the numbered Code yet, which is why looking up “current law” sometimes means chasing the latest amending resolution on DiBB. Our Title 2 & Title 26 lesson explains how to read resolution numbers (the last two digits are the year).

The Legislative Services site carries the Council calendar and the links to watch sessions live, and the Council website posts session information. Committee meetings — where most of the real work happens — are on the same calendar.

Depends on whose jurisdiction it is — and that’s a real question, not a runaround. Start with Who’s in Charge? (our door-by-door guide), test yourself with the jurisdiction game, and find every verified official contact in Resources.

The How to File a Complaint mission walks every pathway — Ethics & Rules for elected officials, the Auditor and the fraud hotline for public money, ONLR for workplace issues — including what happens after you file and the document-first habit that protects you.

Three doors, three jobs. A lesson teaches you how something works — one subject, plainly explained. An issue page reports what the candidates said about it, on the record, side by side. A mission puts both in order and adds the part only you can do: a guided path through the lessons and the record that ends in participation — ask a candidate a question, file the complaint, share what you’ve observed, suggest what we build next. If you want to understand, start with a lesson. If you want to compare candidates, start with an issue page. If you want the whole journey with somewhere to act at the end, take the mission.

Yes — four ways, depending on what you’re after. The search bar at the top of every page searches all 290+ pages. The Candidate Comparison organizes what candidates said by topic — healthcare, housing, veterans, accountability, and seven more — side by side with private judging tools. The Explore the Issues gives each big topic its own page with candidate answers, laws, and voting dates. And The Threads traces twenty themes across the whole interview record. If a topic search ever comes up empty when it shouldn’t, tell us — that’s a fixable gap.

Yes — no app store needed.

On Android:

1. Open the site in Chrome.
2. Tap the ⋮ menu (top right).
3. Choose Add to Home screen.

On iPhone:

1. Open the site in Safari.
2. Tap the Share button.
3. Choose Add to Home Screen.

The sunrise appears on your home screen and the site opens full-screen like an app.

Bonus: pages you’ve visited are saved on your phone automatically, so they keep working where there’s no signal — open what you need on WiFi first, and it travels with you.

Yes — every page has a 🔊 Listen to this page button under its title. It uses your own phone or computer’s built-in voice, so it works without an account, costs nothing, and sends nothing anywhere — same privacy rule as everything else here.

Listening on a trip, without signal: open the pages you want (a Learning Mission and its lessons) while you’re on WiFi — the site saves visited pages on your device automatically — and the Listen button’s voice also lives on your phone. Both keep working with no signal at all. Set it playing before you leave the driveway.

Someday we’d love real recorded audio — a Diné voice reading the guides would say the words right, which no robot ever will. If that’s a contribution you could make, the Lend Your Voice pilot is waiting for you — readers and fluent reviewers both.

Three honest limits. First, on iPhones the reading may stop if your screen locks — a phone-maker limitation, not ours; your phone’s own Listen to Page feature (in Safari’s reader menu) can keep going. Second, the voices are English voices, so Diné Bizaad words will be pronounced badly — the spellings on the page and the elders remain the authority, never the robot. (The reading voice does carry a small pronunciation guide for the most common Diné words — draft approximations awaiting fluent-speaker review, making the robot less wrong, never right.) Third, if you listen while driving, set it playing before you roll, hands off the phone after.

Yes.

Stays on your device — only you can see it:

• Your reactions and answered-checks
• Your candidate assessments and notes
• Your quiz answers, priorities, and My Ballot Notes

Leaves your device — only if you choose to send it:

• What you submit through a form (a question for a candidate, a suggestion, a correction)

No uploads, no accounts — we can’t see your marks. The covenant in the footer is the rule: every decision stays with you.

Volunteers, as a nonpartisan community project — part chapter house meeting, part coffeehouse that never closes. How it’s made, including our AI-assistance disclosure and correction process, is on the About page. The interviews come from Cal Nez’s Politics on the Navajo Nation, on the record. We never endorse, rank, or recommend any candidate.

Not being interviewed yet is a scheduling fact, not a statement about the candidate. Interviews are added as they happen; candidates are welcome to request one. Every candidate — interviewed or not — has a profile with an “Ask this candidate a question” form.

Tell us — corrections are part of the covenant. Every lesson and profile carries a correction link, or go straight through Participate. Candidates and their campaigns can also submit corrections and materials from their own profile pages.

What’s New — the running changelog, linked in the footer of every page. Every build is stamped in the footer, too.