Our autumn quarter Department Web Framework users meeting will be on Tuesday, December 1, from 1-2:00pm in Communications Building 126.
As a reminder for those that are new to the asweb-users list, the Department Web Framework Users Group consists of faculty, staff, and students who manage content on department websites supported by the Arts & Sciences web team. We hold these meetings quarterly to share ideas and best practices, encourage communication between departments, and gather feedback about our website service.
You may be wondering, how is this different from the divisional Marketing Roundtables? Those meetings have a similar format, but they usually cover a broader range of marketing and communications topics beyond the web. We encourage you to attend whichever meetings have subjects that interest you or apply to your job roles.
This quarter the DWF group will be talking about:
UW IT Accessibility Guidelines
The vice president for UW IT signed new accessibility guidelines into effect last May. These guidelines apply to all information technology at UW, including websites, email, and electronic documents. We’ll provide a brief overview of the guidelines and share a few examples of how you, as content authors, can make your websites more accessible.
Improving File Management
We know that uploading and managing PDF files and other documents on Department Web Framework sites is not as easy as it could be. Our team has developed a different approach for managing files, and we’d like to demo the way it works, hear your feedback, and see if you think we should move forward with implementing it on more sites (Sociology and Philosophy sites already have this setup, they were our test pilots).
There may also be time for some open Q&A.
Hope you can join us!