EDU Checkup

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Today’s Tip:

If you can use the little know ABBR and ACRONYM HTML tags to explain the actual titles of text in your content. It will not only help people on screen readers but also search engines who can determine when you say ENG if you mean Engineering or English. If possible to setup in the content management system that your institution uses to automatically make these tags it could save a ton of time.

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Today’s Tip:

When your site does not respond when a user clicks a link its like you have a prospective student about to walk in to your admissions office but the door is locked. Imagine how frustrating that would be, you want to ask questions, start registering and pay money but you locked the door in their face. Make sure your web server is up and running at all times and responding quickly.

(Bonus) Make sure all your academic programs have links back to more information. Image going to the library, asking for a book and all the person or computer can tell you is “yes we have the book” but nothing else. That would be very frustrating to now have to go off on your own and find the book without directions.

Site Links:

• Wormly – Web Site Monitoring

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Today’s Tip:

Make sure the content behind menu items is what your primary audience is expecting. If you have an Academics link on your homepage and the primary audience for the homepage is prospective students it should lead the user to a list of academic programs and not a list of academic administration links.

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Today’s Tip:

If you have text on images make sure the ALT attribute reflects the text on the image. If its no where in the HTML a screen reader or Google cannot read it. It might look pretty but that is only to people who can see it. Imagine if you considered Google a visitor to your site, without the ALT text set its just like putting a big black box instead of those images.