Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we highlight the topic of graphic charts and complicated images: What are complicated images? Graphic charts, such as pie charts, flow […]
Read more
Here in the Division of Marketing and Communications, our Visual Media team is capturing the vibrant campus with new photography every week. Our archive of photography is available for use on the website, using a web-based tool you can search for images and request them from um.visualmedia@maine.edu. When you cannot find an applicable image to […]
Read more
The University of Maine System has recently updated online guidance for Digital Content Management. Their writing for the web basics is a wonderful complement to our own user guide for UMaine websites, and we recommend reviewing this new site for helpful advice on content creation. Review the University of Maine System Writing for the Web Basics
Read more
Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. Icons are an effective way to present options and features on your web pages to reach a broader audience. Label your icons Just as images on a website should be given text alternatives for web accessibility, icons should be accompanied by visible labels […]
Read more
Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. With videos published to the campus websites, transcripts should be created and offered alongside the video. For many popular services (including campus systems such as Brightspace), transcriptions and closed captioning can be created automatically. While […]
Read more
Do you know how much traffic your website receives? Have you looked at Google Analytics for your website and don’t know where to start? Digital Communications can create interactive data reports or dashboards with your website’s data using Google Data Studio. During the workshop we will work with your website to create filterable dashboards to […]
Read more
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. In late January the Maine State Government updated their Web Accessibility and Usability Policy. It is worth reviewing this ten page […]
Read more
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.April 2 was World Autism Awareness Day, and this reminded us that there are design considerations for reducing the cognitive load of our […]
Read more
Our UMS IT developers have been hard at work making some important updates to our website in 2021, and this month we roll out two new features: People list content block The People list content block now allows for adding more people to a single list. The limit had previously been 25 people per list, […]
Read more
(Portions of this item originally appeared in our November 2018 newsletter) 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 email, and pitfalls to avoid when […]
Read more