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.
To begin:
- Open
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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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
Shorts – Decorative Images, Text Images, and Color Contrast
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
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
Short Topics for School Home Pages
Footer Information
Every school has a footer banner across the bottom of every page. It includes the school’s physical address, main telephone number, fax number, and general email address. It also references the EEO statement found on the district’s legal … Read the rest
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.
While single spacing a list is acceptable for a list that simply displays … Read the rest
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
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
Color Contrast in the Calendar
While I truly understand the desire to use different colors for event titles in your calendar, you should only do so with full concern about ADA Color Contrast issues. Color Contrast is a mathematical interpretation of the degree of contrast … Read the rest