Content Managers Meeting NOVEMBER 2016 Whats New Content

Content Managers Meeting NOVEMBER 2016

What’s New? Content Managers Webpage Web Accessibility File Uploads SEO Required Fields

Content Managers Webpage

Content Managers Web Page Content Manager’s Website Content Manager’s link on the technology website, under the Web Services section.

Content Managers web page • Documentation links • • • SEO WCMS My IU Event Calendar • WCMS Widget Examples • Web Accessibility • Contact a Content Manager for web content updates • Announcements • FAQ’s

Accessibility

Accessibility Why? Legal Obligation ◦ Americans with Disabilities Act ◦ Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 ◦ *Section 504 & 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Standards Increases your Audience ◦ Register for an event ◦ Content consumed ◦ Understand your users ◦ Hearing ◦ Visual ◦ Motor skills Required by IU as of November 1, 2016

Accessibility Alternative Text (alt text) ◦ Required ◦ Descriptive summary of the picture ◦ Example: Manny the koala climbs a tree in the Amazon Example of how screen readers read alternative text.

Accessibility Skip Navigation ◦ Use tab on all IU Northwest webpages. ◦ To access the “Skip To” accessibility menu link in the top left corner. Headings • h 1, h 2, h 3, h 4, h 5, h 6 • Example of a Heading structure You. Tube video of a Screen Reader example

Accessibility For more information regarding accessibility, please visit: IU Northwest Web Accessibility page accessibility. iu. edu Web. AIM Laws How people with disabilities use the web

New Features

New Features File Uploads New Files ◦ Image Files ◦ Has a file limit of 110 kb ◦ Can only upload. jpg, . png, . gif ◦ All images need to be compressed ◦ Use Tinypng. com for compression ◦ Document Files ◦ Has title field

New Features SEO Title, Keywords and Descriptions will become “required” fields as of December 5, 2016 Please visit our documentation page on how to write SEO information.

Best Practices

Best Practices System Names Lower case; hyphen for spaces ◦ No uppercase letter; no spaces ◦ Naming convention only applies to system names and accordion ID’s Naming convention ◦ Short and descriptive Becomes part of the URL EX: faculty-staff-handbook http: //www. iun. edu/registrar/faculty-staff-handbook. htm

Best Practices Link text, not URLS Avoid putting URL’s in content Instead hyperlink informative text Don’t You can find more information on our Faculty handbook 2014 -2015 academic year http: //www. iun. edu/faculty/handbook-2014 -2015 -academic-year Do You can find more information on our Faculty handbook 2014 -2015 academic year

Best Practices Link descriptive text AVOID USING “Click Here” “Learn More” INSTEAD “Learn more about IU Northwest” “Click here to sign up for the IU Northwest hockey team”

Best Practices Clean Up Group accounts for document storage Documents that are no longer needed on the web, remove from WCMS Put back up copies of documents in a department account ◦ Department box account ◦ Shared network drive

Best Practices IUNHELP Please send all web requests to IUN help for assistance iunhelp@iun. edu

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