Accessibility All content sitewide meets accessibility standards (e.g., images, alt. text, links, documents/PDFs, video captions, color contrast, etc.)
For more information, see Accessibility
For accessibility help, including questions about web accessibility and/or how people with disabilities interact with the web, contact accessibility@ku.edu .
Images All images use quality alternative text to describe the image for accessibility compliance (see exception below for images that are also links).
All images that are also links use the alternative text field to describe where the user will go, not a description of the image itself.
For more information, see Images
Documents and PDFs All documents and PDFs hosted on the site are accessible (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.). To be considered accessible for KU CMS sites, PDFs must have no issues via Adobe Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker tools. This includes issues that are automatically identified by Adobe (e.g., alternative text, tagging, tables, etc.) and the two issues that must be checked manually: 1) Logical reading order; and 2) Color contrast.
Any scanned PDFs on the site have undergone necessary remediation to make them fully accessible. Scanned PDFs are strongly discouraged.
For more information, see Documents
Links All link titles are descriptive - meaning the link title tells users succinctly what they will find if they follow the link.
There are no links that use non-descript text like “Click here” or “this link.”
There are no links on the site that show the actual URL (e.g., https://admissions.ku.edu) instead of a descriptive link explaining the link destination. Exception: Properly formatted bibliographic citations may include URLs as link titles (e.g., selected publications in Person Profiles).
Links to internal pages are relative URLs (e.g., /yourpagename or /node/#) not absolute URLs (i.e., full URL with the development domain .cms-dev/), which will break as soon as the site goes live.
All links open in the same window – unless the link destination is outside the KU domain.
References to links use the term “select” instead of “click” to accommodate for modern touch screen devices that do not use a mouse.
There are no links on your new site to content (e.g., images, documents, etc.) on your previous Drupal 7 site. Any links to content on your Drupal 7 site will break when your new site goes live.
For more information, see Links
Videos All videos hosted on the site, including those with little or not talking, provide captions for accessible access.
All videos hosted on the site are of a professional quality, including high-resolution imagery and audio.
For more information, see Videos
Contact Information and Footer The site has contact information in the footer, including address, email and phone.
Placeholder departmental links in site footer are removed if not in use.
For more information, see Footer and Contact Page
Site Menu If the pages are present, the menu of an Academic site contains the following recommended link titles: About, Academics, Admissions, People, Research
If the pages are present, the menu of a Non-academic site contains the following recommended link titles: About, People, Resources
For more information, see Menu/Navigation
Site Menu - Main Menu Requirements for Academic Sites KU Style Degree abbreviations followed KU style standards: BA, MS, PhD, etc.
Person Profiles All person profiles are created using the Person Profile content type either manually or using imported information from Faculty Pro.
For more information, see Person Profile
Web Writing All pages have been reviewed and edited to use modern web writing guidelines and best practices.
For more information, see Web Writing
Headers All page titles, headers and sub-headers follow guidelines and best practices.
All pages contain only one H1 header class header.
All pages follow the basic logic for header classes H1, H2, H3. For example, an H3 cannot occur prior to the establishment of an H2.
All headers reflect page organization, not aesthetics.
There are no empty headers on any pages.
For more information, see Headers and Sub-Headers
Site Maintenance Plan A formal site maintenance plan has been created for your site that that includes at minimum two site-wide reviews per year to address out of date content, broken links, and new opportunities to improve the user experience.
For more information, see Site Maintenance