When you include a date in a document such as the school supply list shown below and that date is for a past year, there is always doubt as to whether that document still applies because nothing has changed or … Read the rest
New Portal Branding
School Messenger will be implementing the new branding for the OCPS district web sites (not employee intranet or school sites) overnight on November 13th while you all are watching the election results in this country. You will see the … Read the rest
Creating Your Accessible PDF from Word
Now that you have a Word Document that is accessible, how can you create a PDF that you can distribute to others outside of OCPS.
Since the 2007 version of Word, you have had an option to change the file … Read the rest
Hyperlinks in Documents
As with links on a web page, links in a document must have alt-text. However, there is a major ‘gotcha’ which I’ll explain a little latter in this post. Let’s begin though by looking at what are some of the … Read the rest
Accessibility of Images in PDFs
Accessibility of Images in PDFs follows essentially the same rules as images on web pages. There are three basic types of images:
- Decoration
- Example of something
- Actual content
All three types of images must have alt-text associated with them. However, … Read the rest
Thinking About Accessibility of PDFs on your Website
First, let me be clear that accessibility is for everyone, not just the visually impaired. Some aspects of accessibility are directed toward those who have reasonably good vision or hearing and are meant to make documents easier to understand. Other … Read the rest
District Web Site Webinar Now Available In-House
The video recording from the August 13, 2018 webinar for district web admins/authors is now available from our intranet site page:
https://intranet.ocps.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=125187&pageId=338087
The videos on the left side of the page are the introductory videos created in 2017. The Mastering … Read the rest
District Web Site Webinar by SchoolMessenger
Yesterday, August 13, 2018, we conducted the first of two detailed webinars for our Mastering your website series. You can currently access the recording of the webinar at the following URL by using your school credentials:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7706018895353682946
I don’t know … Read the rest
Home Page Clutter
Not everything is important
We know there is a lot going on at your school, but not everything is important enough to be on the home page. The net effect of putting too much stuff on your home page is … Read the rest
Use External Link Pages Wisely
Using a whole content page to link to another site:
In this first case, another site could be another OCPS site other than your own, or it could be a site outside of OCPS. An example might be a reference … Read the rest