Web@UK - (tentative) October 25, Wednesday, 1:30-4PM, 106 McVey Hall
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Web Publishers Meetings
South Campus
October 16, 2PM, location TBA
North Campus
October 17, 2PM, location TBA
A most common problem found while running accessibility-checking applications on websites is not providing assistive devices a way to move past a website's repeated navigation and directly to the content.
You will most likely use this only for pages after the home page because the navigation is not yet repetitive.
This monthly section is designed to help all of us move toward using cascading stylesheets (CSS) exclusively and confidently to separate the content portions of our sites from the design or layout portions.
Shamick Goworski of Ag Communications' Creative Applications for Learning Environments (CALE) Lab presented several compelling reasons in a mini-seminar created by Ivelin Denev, Becky Simmermacher, Craig Wood and Shamick. We greatly appreciate the time they've taken to bring all this together and share it with us.
They've made it available online at http://www.ca.uky.edu/CALE/CSS%5FPresent/. Be sure to click on the four bulleted links below the names to view changes to the page itself that reflect different uses of CSS. This site is a work in progress.
I. Introduction
Creation and maintenance of Web pages and other Web materials at the University of Kentucky is governed by this policy, the Policy Governing Access to and use of University of Kentucky Computing Resources, the Graphic Standards Manual and the UK Hospital Policy on Management of Hospital Personal Computer Resources (PDF) as well as relevant laws and regulations. Adoption of and authority for this policy is through the University's Web Advisory Committee (WAC).
People maintaining Web pages at UK should also be familiar with the Web Standards and Guidelines and the University of Kentucky Style Guide.
The University of Kentucky has the greatest respect for academic freedom and intellectual creativity. This policy statement is intended to support the academic freedom of the members of the University community, while protecting the interests of the University and all of its students, faculty and staff. It is designed to provide guidance to those who use University resources to publish materials electronically via the Internet and the World Wide Web. Individual units of the University that wish to create more detailed guidelines for Web materials may do so, as long as they do not conflict with this university-wide policy.
This policy is a revision to the previous Web Policy issued in January 1999. This new policy incorporates a number of policy changes issued through other means since that time as well as long-standing practices. This policy also replaces the 1998 UKCMC Web policy. UKCMC units are still required to use white backgrounds, no frames, the Master Navigation Bar on all pages, and the UKCMC footer on all pages as part of the design formats referenced in this policy. The WAC reserves the right to revise this policy in the future.
II. Scope
This policy governs any electronic documents made available via standard Web protocols which represent an official unit or activity of the University, are hosted on University resources, or bear marks, logos, or symbols that might imply endorsement by the University regardless of where they are hosted.
III. Definitions
The following terms are defined with specific meanings for the purposes of this policy.
The ease of presentation and utility to all users particularly understood to include those with disabilities. With regard to the University Web site, disabilities of note include blindness or limited vision, colorblindness, a wide range of disabilities which limit the use of a mouse or keyboard, hearing impairment, and others.
A name, symbol or trademark officially registered or adopted for identifying an organization and/or its products.
A unit which reports to the President, the Provost, a vice president, a dean or a director.
A specific series of evaluations conducted by University Public Relations to check that a Web site conforms to University policy and standards, does not violate copyright or other legal proscriptions, presents a professional and consistent appearance, functions properly, and is properly supported.
Electronic documents created for the purpose of displaying either on the World Wide Web or in a Web browser. These documents may be static or dynamically assembled at the time of request.
(NOTE: None of following directly effects the rendering of web pages. However, it does effect how users will set up the new browser, and that may effect how the view your web pages.)
Curious to know what Internet Explorer 7 will look like and how it will operate? Well, several colleagues advise NOT to install IE7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) on the machine you use most just to find out. Install it on a spare instead.
Why? Because (among other things) it eliminates IE6, requires right-clicking to make Favorites folders open and permanently places some familiar icons to the right of the URL window without giving users (as in previous versions) the option to put them wherever they want. These are just the nuances I've noticed. You may find additional IE options that no longer work.
It’s important to also know that beta software might not behave the way you expect. IRIS's Adam Recktenwald explains. "We've done some tweaking that allows myUK to properly recognize several varieties of IE7 (beta / RC1, etc). SAP and/or IRIS can’t support beta software - this includes non-Production releases of IE7. Users are more than welcome to try it. However, they are at their own peril. SAP and Microsoft work closely together and once a production release of IE7 is available, SAP will shortly (within a few days usually) certify IE7 as a supported browser type."
In an article released 9/18/06 titled "Internet Explorer 7 looms — be prepared" by Woody Leonhard of the Windows Secrets newsletter, he states, "By the end of this year, Internet Explorer 7 will be "pushed" onto tens of millions of desktops. You'd better be ready."