Webmasters - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Announcements:
Thank you to all who attended our Ninth Annual Webmaster Forum. It was a great success and enjoyed by all. Lou Rosenfeld did a great job on his keynote and breakout session and we were very glad he could make it. The Webmaster Committee did a terrific job putting this one together. Now we're busy planning for the big 10 Year Anniversary next year!!
Brownbags:
- “Latest Developments on the Web, Accessibility Challenges and Trends”
- Location: 2240 DCL, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana
- Date: Friday, May 16, noon - 1pm
- Presenter: Victor Tsaran, Accessibility Program Manager, Yahoo!
- Description: Victor will discuss the latest changes on the web as seen from inside Yahoo!. Particular attention will be given to accessibility and usability challenges related to web 2.0 and assistive technologies. Victor will also present Yahoo's views on the latest emerging accessibility standards, such as ARIA, and and discuss how it fits into existing best practices paradigm. Above all, Victor would be happy to listen to what you have to say and to learn about your experiences with web 2.0 in your daily development work.
- Other upcoming brown bags
- Survey Tools
- Flash Accessibility
Web Services is marking its 4th anniversity of the Web Services Toolbox from Public Affairs. In celebration we are beginning the rollout of our new design. Phase 1, which is complete, is releasing a new Toolbox homepage and framework for all other pages. Phase 2 will consist of redesigning each of the tools for the new layout. One by one the tools will be released as they are complete.
Check out the new design at Web Services home page..
The Campus Web Templates
The templates above address the following accessibility concerns: use of skip navigation tags, use of headings, print and screen stylesheets, use of CSS for styling much of the content and an example of an ADA compliant data table. They've been created to work on a wide variety of platforms and browsers.
For further guidelines see the Illinois Center for Instructional Technology Accessibility (iCITA) best practices web site.
Web Development Guidelines
We've assembled some of the most basic resources and guidelines on everything from campus web navigation, to web site accessibility, advice on metatags, links to the free Google search implementation, and other useful stuff for campus webmasters.
Video Archives of Webmaster Brownbags
The video archives are in RealVideo format. If you need a Realplayer you can get a free download.
Recent:
- February 22, 2006: Security and Privacy: What Every Webmaster Needs to Know
(Mike Corn and Ryan Eads) real video - November 16th, 2005: Elluminate multimedia course delivery system (Lena Choe) real video
