Best Practices
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Images are an important part of a good website. They help tell your story, attract attention and make content easier to understand. But large image files can slow down your website and create a frustrating experience for visitors—especially on mobile devices. The goal isn’t simply to make images smaller. The goal is to use the…
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Personnel profile pages help faculty, staff and the public find contact information, learn about expertise and connect with CAES employees. Currently, CAES uses three types of personnel profile pages, each serving a different purpose and drawing information from different data sources.
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On many CAES and UGA Extension lab and program websites, our researchers and specialists add publication lists. Here are instructions to add a list style with a hanging indent to meet APA Style and WCAG 2.0 Level AA guidelines on your WordPress site.
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The Fix Alt Text plugin is our primary tool for ensuring our websites have required text alternatives for images to meet WCAG accessibility compliance. It helps us find missing alt text in bulk and prevents new errors before they happen.
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If you plan to take photos or record videos of students for websites, marketing materials or outreach projects, please review the FERPA guidelines.
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Watch OIT’s video instructions on using the Accessibility Checker in Foxit PDF Editor Pro.
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This one-stop handbook provides CAES and UGA Extension website content managers with the resources they need to manage, edit, and publish official websites consistent with the CAES Web Publishing Policy.
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Ensuring digital accessibility means making your content usable for everyone, regardless of ability. Our new handbook offers resources, training, and best practices to help CAES and UGA Extension personnel meet ADA and WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.
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A new federal rule requires state and local governments, including public universities, to ensure all digital content—websites, mobile apps, and social media—is accessible to people with disabilities. Issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, this update to Title II of the ADA was published on April 24, 2024, and took effect on June 24. As…
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Writing for the web is not the same as writing for a print publication. When developing your web content it is important to appeal to both online visitors and search engines. Review our list of quick tips for writing quality web content.