1. Content Managers Meeting
November 2016

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

3. Content Managers Webpage

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

5. 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

6. Accessibility

7. Accessibility Why? Legal Obligation Increases your Audience
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

8. 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.

9. Accessibility Skip Navigation Headings h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
Use tab on all IU Northwest webpages.
To access the “Skip To” accessibility menu link in the top left corner .
Headings
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
Example of a Heading structure
YouTube video of a Screen Reader example

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

11. New Features

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

13. 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.

14. Best Practices

15. 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

16. 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 academic year Do

17. 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”

18. 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​

19. Best Practices IUNHELP
Please send all web requests to IUN help for assistance

20. Thank You!