Slider content block The slider content block now has a pair of options. Display a random slide, and restrict to only a single slide. Between the two, there are several uses for this feature: Randomize on, single-slide off If you want multiple features in the slider, randomizing where the slider starts will help change up […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on tools that create graphics for social media, such as Canva. Creating graphics with text embedded Social […]
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In our October newsletter we offered instructions to add Kaltura videos to your webpages. What about YouTube, Vimeo, and other websites where videos are published? The good news is that adding videos from other services is even simpler. Using oembed When embedding a video from YouTube or Vimeo, the website ‘oembed’ feature can be used if […]
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Do you receive unhelpful spam from your web forms? While there have been tools available that attempt to thwart the automated form submission robots that are responsible for this, such options have introduced barriers to visitors that rely on assistive technology. For this reason we had not allowed for the use of reCAPTCHA (a popular […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter— and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on how different website features should be used for their intended purpose Heading tags A well structured page […]
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The UMaine website design allows for site navigation as a horizontal bar below your website header title and image. This is sufficient for many sites, but larger websites do need “sub-section” navigation for better usability. To date, this has been accomplished using the sidebar template on pages where a secondary menu can appear. Our Digital Communications […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter— and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on how screen readers work with social media communication tactics such as “hash tags.” What is a hashtag? […]
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Pin multiple videos Previously only one video could be “pinned” at a time in the Zoom interface. A new accessibility feature allows for pinning multiple videos in the interface, which is helpful to keep a sign language interpreter on screen throughout a video. More information is available on Zoom’s website. Re-arrange videos in gallery view Gallery […]
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We now offer a “shortcode” for use in the text editor which allows for a shaded box treatment, with the headline in a blue bar across its top. Adding a shaded box treatment Here is an example of this shortcode “around” the text to give it a shaded box display: Headline appears here] Text appears […]
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Kaltura is the streaming video platform provided to all campuses for use with learning management systems (Brightspace) and websites alike. However, the code Kaltura creates for embedding videos requires some adjustments to work with our campus WordPress environment. If you have a Kaltura-hosted video that you wish to embed on a umaine.edu web page, you […]
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