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. If your website has documents such as PDF, Word, Excel or Powerpoint files for download and viewing, those files must also abide by […]
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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. All university-provided computers have a license for Microsoft Office— is your copy of this software up to date? To find out, open one […]
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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. Recently the University of Maine System licensed a new accessibility tool, GrackleDocs. It is available to everyone from the “Add-ons” menu when editing […]
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Our first video captioning workshop was held last week on Nov. 10, thank you to all who attended, your questions were great. This is now available as a recording for those who were unable to attend the session. The Kaltura-hosted playback of this zoom recording offers controls that display either the main video or a […]
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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 feature accessibility events from the 2021 WP Campus conference. Get real: authentically reinforcing diversity, equity and inclusion through your digital marketing When your […]
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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, the focus is on event emails and using flyers online. Using a flyer to promote your event When promoting an event […]
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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 revisit the topic of alt text. What is “alt text”? Alt text is an alternative description for an image on […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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