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. Maine CITE is offering a free webinar in August, Creating Accessible Content. Here is their description of the webinar: Webinar: Creating Accessible Content Date: […]
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Effective June 14, a VPN connection is now required for website editors to access the campus WordPress dashboard from outside the campus networks. As the most popular web content management system (WCMS), WordPress is a regular target for cyber threats. UMS IT has seen an uptick in attempts to login to our WordPress environment, and […]
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Beginning Tuesday June 14, 2022, you will need to use a VPN connection to sign in to the UMaine WordPress system when you are off campus. Instructions for downloading and installing VPN software from UMS IT Digital Communications and UMS IT have resolved the issue regarding the password option for pages, and we will re-implement […]
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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 call attention to a great resource developed by the University of Maine System: Accessibility Guidelines on the University of Maine […]
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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 call attention to resources and trainings available through the Maine Department of Education’s Maine CITE Program. A main focus of […]
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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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With our staffing reduced, we are working to better streamline our support requests going forward. Our “Request website services” form has been updated to include support requests in addition to website and account requests. Please use this form going forward, as it will help us gather information needed for website support. Request website services form
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