1. Web & accessibility resources
Web Services Unit
Web & accessibility resources

3. Web Policy Supporting Guidelines

4. Main requests & Resources

5. Web Policy and CMS Training

6. Web Requests

7. Analytics Requests Timeframe: 2-3 days
Analytics Request: - One-off reports for selected dates
- Recurring reports i.e. weekly/monthly

8. Banner Designs & Business Cases
Timeframe: four weeks
Banner Design Form: if you require a design to be created (recommended)
Banner Request Form: the business case with completed banner design attached

9. Registration Forms & Surveys
Timeframe: one week
Online Form Template: for any registration or feedback forms
Surveys (SurveyMonkey): two weeks
> OSQ approval > Ethics approval > Set up > Testing

10. Resources – Tips & Tricks

11. Resources – Tips & Tricks
Tips & Tricks: short tutorials for Simple Edit Interface
Ongoing: common questions will be added and updated as necessary
Suggestions: We are open to suggestions if there are certain processes you
find confusing or would like a reference

12. Accessibility Resources

13. Accessibility – What/Why/How?

14. What is Accessibility?
The Web is designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location to physical and mental ability.
Accessible webpages: available to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight and cognitive ability.
Badly designed webpages: create barriers that exclude people from using the web.

15. Why is Accessibility Important?
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes access to information and communication technologies, including Web, as a basic human right.
Accessibility Supports: social inclusion for people with disabilities, older people, people who live in rural areas and people in developing countries.

16. Why is Accessibility Important?
Business Case: Overlaps with other best practices such as mobile web design, device independence, multi-modal interaction, usability, design for older users and search engine optimisation (SEO)
Case studies have shown: accessible websites have much better search results, reduced maintenance costs and increased audience reach.

17. Accessibility – Tips & Guides

18. Accessibility – Using Alt Text
Good Alt text:
Girl sitting in field of purple flowers
Girl sitting amongst tulips
Young girl surrounded by flowers
Bad Alt text:
Image00001
Girl
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Alt text: Provides alternate text version of the picture for vision impaired using screen readers, people who have turned off images on their mobile, people in rural areas with low bandwidth and technologies that cannot see images e.g. search engines

19. Accessibility – Hyperlink text
AVOID generic terms:
Click here
More info
Hyperlink text: should provide meaningful description of the link and its destination
Click here for more information.
More information about accessibility can be found through the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

20. Accessibility – Multimedia Transcripts
Transcripts: Any media relying on sound (video & audio files) should be accompanied with a text transcript to allow access to the hearing impaired and other technologies like search engines which cannot hear.
Captioning: All multimedia should be appropriately captioned with a meaningful description of the content.

21. Accessibility – Page Organisation
H1 Headings are built into
the page as the page name
H2 and H3 Headings should
arranged strategically within the
content to distinguish the hierarchy
of information
Page Organisation: The hierarchy of information on a web page plays an important role in the access of information from assistive technologies, usability and SEO.

22. Accessibility – Documents
Accessible Documents: It is the owners’ responsibility to provide and upload accessible documents or alternate versions for the web
How? Adobe training resources – linked from WSU site

23. Accessibility – Document Tips
If you are unsure if your document is accessible or unable to provide an accessible PDF:
Provide an alternative version for users in MS Word
Avoid using .docx files as many older computers are unable to open these documents
Consider providing the information as a web page rather than a document
Scanned PDFs are NOT accessible: they read like images and none of the content can be pulled out. If the scanned document is absolutely essential, it needs to accompanied with an accessible word document or html version

24. Timeframes for services
Minor Content Changes: 1 day
Publishing pages: 1–2 days
Analytics: 2-3 days
Registration Forms: 1 week
Surveys: 2 weeks
Page buttons: 1-2 weeks
Promotional Banners: 4 weeks
Social Media Account requests: 4 weeks
New mini-site: (case-by-case) 1-2 months
Thank you! 