Web Authoring Help

Standards

• Minimum Content
• Under Construction Pages
• Linking to Administrative Documents
• General Statement
• Official Web Pages
• Web Ownership Plan
• Getting Started
• Personal Home Pages
• Acceptable Use Statement
• User Agreement
• Publishing URLs and Links
• Graphic Standards

Accessibility

• Scanned Text
• How to write an alt text description
• Accessibility Report for CMS Webs
• Absolute (fixed) sizing.
• Use of out-dated or deprecated html tags
• Inserting links that go to different pages or web sites with the same text
• Opening a web page in a new window (pop-up)
• Empty alternate text for images or image maps
• Creating Accessible PDF files
• Special scripts/tags detected by accessibility report

CMS Tips/Tools

• Logging into CMS
• Slide Show Example
• Multiple File Upload
• Linking to PDF files
• Uploading files
• Insert images
• Configuring Forms
• Forming a Link to the Schedule of Classes
• Optimizing Meta Tags for search engines

Multimedia & Digital Video/Audio Captions

• Animated GIF's and Flash Animations
• WebAIM tutorial for captioning QuickTime
• Suggested Styles and Conventions for Closed Captioning
• Captioning Digital Video Files
• Captioning Digital Audio Files
• Turn on caption feature in Windows Media Player

Web Author Certification

Other Resources

• Media Access Generator (MAGpie)  Makes text captions for QuickTime and Windows Media files
• AppleScript Tools  Use the SMIL tool to caption your movie.
• High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU)
• W3C Style Sheet Reference
• W3C HTML Reference
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Section 508
• Web AIM
• Microsoft Accessibility Tools
• Nation Center for Accessible Media