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Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Create a School Site Newsletter Infrastructure

Goal: To create two links under School Information that will represent:

  • A link to the current version of your school newsletter
  • A link to a page that contains an archive of school newsletters using a document container.

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Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

The News Aggregator

A Brief Introduction on How to Use the News Aggregator on Your School Home Page

This document explains the steps needed to add (and edit) news stories that appear in the Recent News section of your School’s home page.

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Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

Fixing Color Contrast Issues – Revisited

One of the more common compliance issues with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is also one of the easiest to fix. Color contrast in relation to the text on the background requires that the text be easy to read by … Read the rest

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Posted on December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

Shorts – Decorative Images, Text Images, and Color Contrast

A bear driving a school bus of third graders?

Decorative Images

I want to visit images again to review a couple of common issues I have seen on sites. These issues are easy to recognize if one simply ties to adopt the mindset of a blind or vision impaired … Read the rest

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Posted on December 7, 2020November 27, 2020

Short Topics: Image and Link Alt-text

Image Alt-text

Image and link alt-text is extremely important to the visually impaired who cannot see either the picture or the link text (link text is what appears on the page). Often the alt-text is the only clue to these … Read the rest

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Posted on November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Shorts – Storing Images and Files

Adding Images to a Page:

All images should be added to a page after uploading the image to the Image folder. First select File Administration under the Site Administration dropdown menu.

Start by selecting File Administration from the Site Administration dropdown menu

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Posted on October 23, 2020October 23, 2020

Account for Motion Disabilities

I have seen many pages on our portal with a list of links that appear on one line after another like those shown in the following image.

A list with sequental hyperlines that are single spaced

While single spacing a list is acceptable for a list that simply displays … Read the rest

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Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

Can Alt-Text Have Line Breaks

Well, that depends. It depends on where you try to create them.

Let’s start with a word document. If you have a word document that contains an image, you can right-click on the image and select the “Edit Alt Text…” … Read the rest

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Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

More Style Guidelines for your website

  1. Do not publish blank pages

  2. If your drop down menu is already getting too long, don’t include two separate entries for items like Code of Conduct that go directly to either the English or Spanish versions as shown below:

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Posted on March 6, 2020March 9, 2020

The Style of Links

In today’s post, I want to talk a little about style when creating links on a web page. More specifically, I want to talk about how style changes based on the type of medium used to display the link. For … Read the rest

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