1. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Michael Donovan River Campus Libraries

2. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Agenda 1.What is a style guide? 2.What are the resources for page editors? 3.What are the responsibilities of the Digital Initiatives Unit and Page Editors? 4.Questions?

3. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries What is a Style Guide? A set of guidelines (i.e. a ll text is top aligned and left justified )

4. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries What Does it Accomplish? Universal Design ADA Compliance Aesthetics Usability

5. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Sources for Guidelines Web Design and Usability Literature  Sarah Horton’s Web Style Guide (www.webstyleguide.com)www.webstyleguide.com  WebAIM web accessibility standards & SEC. 508. (http://www.webaim.org/standards/)http://www.webaim.org/standards/  World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML & accessibility standards ( www.w3.org) www.w3.org  Research Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (www.usability.gov/guidelines)www.usability.gov/guidelines Experience & Education

6. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Resources For Page Editors Staff Documentation Page Editors’ Updates & Web Updates Page Editors’ Checklist Link Checker Digital Initiatives Unit

7. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Page Editors’ Checklist

8. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries All Guidelines Fit Into Categories Universal Design ADA Compliance Aesthetics Usability

9. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Digital Initiatives Unit Responsibilities Create & update the style guidelines Apply the style guidelines to top level pages Keep Page Editors up-to-date

10. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Page Editors Responsibilities Apply checklist to your pages Check links Give feedback on use of tools

11. A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Questions?