Content Managers Meeting November 2016

Content Managers Webpage What’s New? Content Managers Webpage Web Accessibility File Uploads SEO Required Fields

Content Managers Webpage

Content Managers Web Page Content Manager’s Website Content Manager’s link on the technology website, under the Web Services section.

Content Managers web page Documentation links SEO WCMS My IU Event Calendar WCMS Widget Examples Web Accessibility Contact a Content Manager for web content updates Announcements FAQ’s

Accessibility

Accessibility Why? Legal Obligation Increases your Audience Americans with Disabilities Act Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 *Section 504 & 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Standards Increases your Audience Register for an event Content consumed Understand your users Hearing Visual Motor skills Required by IU as of November 1, 2016

Accessibility Alternative Text (alt text) Required Descriptive summary of the picture Example: Manny the koala climbs a tree in the Amazon Example of how screen readers read alternative text.

Accessibility Skip Navigation Headings h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 Use tab on all IU Northwest webpages. To access the “Skip To” accessibility menu link in the top left corner . Headings h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 Example of a Heading structure YouTube video of a Screen Reader example

Accessibility For more information regarding accessibility, please visit: IU Northwest Web Accessibility page accessibility.iu.edu WebAIM Laws How people with disabilities use the web

New Features

New Features File Uploads New Files Image Files Has a file limit of 110kb Can only upload .jpg, .png, .gif All images need to be compressed Use Tinypng.com for compression Document Files Has title field

New Features SEO Title, Keywords and Descriptions will become “required” fields as of December 5, 2016 Please visit our documentation page on how to write SEO information.

Best Practices

Best Practices System Names Lower case; hyphen for spaces No uppercase letter; no spaces Naming convention only applies to system names and accordion ID’s Naming convention Short and descriptive Becomes part of the URL EX: faculty-staff-handbook http://www.iun.edu/registrar/faculty-staff-handbook.htm

Best Practices Link text, not URLS Avoid putting URL’s in content Instead hyperlink informative text Don’t You can find more information on our Faculty handbook 2014-2015 academic year http://www.iun.edu/faculty/handbook-2014-2015-academic-year Do

Best Practices Link descriptive text AVOID USING “Click Here” “Learn More” INSTEAD “Learn more about IU Northwest” “Click here to sign up for the IU Northwest hockey team”

Best Practices Clean Up Group accounts for document storage Documents that are no longer needed on the web, remove from WCMS​ Put back up copies of documents in a department account​ Department box account ​ Shared network drive​

Best Practices IUNHELP Please send all web requests to IUN help for assistance iunhelp@iun.edu

Thank You!