Web Team Meets with Accessibility Coordinator
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Accessibility
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Suitcase is designed with web accessibility best practices in mind, and makes it easy for content owners to create accessible content.
For more resources and guides about web accessibility, visit ISU Digital Access.
Responsive Tables
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Tabular data is best displayed in HTML tables, but sometimes large tables do not fit on small screens making the table information unreadable. Suitcase Interim makes tables responsive so the layout of the tables adapt to small screens.
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When content creators add tables to their pages, news articles, or other types of content, Suitcase Interim automatically detects the table and makes it responsive.
Accessible Web Development
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Friday, March 24, 2017 - 1:00pm
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206 Durham
Workshop presentation and discussion led by Ann Greazel, Sarah Carney and Angela McMahon. The presentation included a live Zoom session with Dr. Zayira Jordan. The audience for this event was mainly ISU website content editors and web developers on campus.
The topic was covered how the BIT web development team raised awareness for accessibility requirements, implemented the requirements, and made part of development. It also includes how Jira is being used to document testing and WCAG 2.0 web accessibility standards.
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Webinar: Easy steps to keep your website accessibly compliant
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 10:00am to 10:30am
In this webinar, we will walk through some easy steps that content editors can do to keep websites accessibly compliant and improve usability!
We will walk through simple things to keep in mind when editing that make your website more inclusive.
PDF download of the slides for Easy steps to keep your website accessibly compliant
Check out the webinar recording below.
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Best practices - a potpourri of tweaks that will improve your site today!
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Friday, April 6, 2018 - 10:00am to 10:40am
Join us for a webinar where we will dive into some best practices for content editing!
We will explore some fast and easy fixes that will improve your site today!
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Making Documents Accessible
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Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 10:00am
In this webinar we will be taking a look at documents and making them digitally accessible. Often times as web editors, we need to be able to provide Word documents or PDF downloads online for our site visitors. Along with keeping your website compliant with the WCAG 2.0 AA standards, it is also important to keep your documents at those same standards.
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Images and Alt text
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Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 10:00am to 10:40am
During this webinar, we will walk through how to add images and alt text, along with best practices for each. In addition, we will review and provide resources for the WCAG AA guidelines for alt text and images.
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