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
Windows 10 October 2018 Update: New .ZIP bug could lead to data loss
(Reposted from TechRepublic: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-october-2018-update-new-zip-bug-could-lead-to-data-loss-admits-microsoft/?ftag=TREe331754&bhid=23541743592606605630532585926095)
I normally do not repost material from other people’s websites or blog posts, but this was too important to not make available immediately.
Microsoft has admitted that a second bug made it into the Windows … Read the rest
How Does It Look on a Mobile Device?
In the past, we have run Google Analytics which told us that the majority of the web sessions on the OCPS portal were coming from desktop computers. In fact the number was as high as 95% in recent months. However, … Read the rest
Quick Tip: You Need to do more than just say Click Here
I am sure that as you look around the Internet, not just the OCPS web pages, you will find many instances where the text on the page asks you to ‘Click Here’ to go to another page, or to a … Read the rest
SchoolMessenger Webinar Recording – 10/8/2018
Anyone who attended the live training webinar on October 8, 2018 should have received a link to the recorded session. Since then, we have downloaded the video and published it on our OCPS servers so that everyone, even those … 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
Checking the Accessibility of your Documents
So now that you have created your Word document, how can you check if that document is accessible? There are many accessibility checkers available on the Internet. However, did you know that you have an accessibility checker built right into … Read the rest
Tables Have Accessibility Requirements Too
Tables have long been a popular way of displaying related information that would be difficult to read if you provided the same information in paragraph form. Tables imply a structure to the data and thus are visual. Each row of … Read the rest
New Version of Presence (Portal) Imminent
School Messenger has notified the support team here at OCPS that a new version of the portal will be installed later this month upgrading our current user experience. The dates have not been finalized yet. I will post additional details … Read the rest