The Web Advisory Council (WAC) at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a campus-wide collaborative community focused on enhancing the quality, consistency, accessibility, and user experience of UIS websites and digital services. WAC exists to bring together experts across units, including marketing, communications, web editors, deans, directors, and accessibility specialists — to define best practices, share resources, and guide digital governance for UIS.
The University of Illinois Springfield web team has launched updates to the main website header and Quick Links navigation to improve accessibility, usability and overall site performance.
These enhancements are part of UIS’s ongoing commitment to creating a more accessible and user-friendly digital experience for students, faculty, staff and visitors.
Finding information on the UIS website just got easier.
The Office of Web and Digital Strategy has enhanced the website’s search functionality by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), delivering more accurate, relevant, and helpful results for both visitors and employees.
Before you start using Siteimprove, please make sure that you are logged into both Siteimprove and the UIS website.
Finding your way around campus just got a whole lot easier. The University of Illinois Springfield is excited to launch a new interactive 3D campus map, designed to help students, faculty, staff, and visitors explore UIS with confidence.
As part of the University of Illinois Springfield’s ongoing commitment to digital accessibility and compliance, the UIS Web Team has begun distributing weekly accessibility reports to campus units through Siteimprove.
These reports are a key tool in helping units identify, prioritize, and address accessibility issues on their websites as we work toward meeting the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) accessibility compliance deadline of April 2026.
The UIS Web Team is excited to share that we are actively working on a comprehensive redesign of the University of Illinois Springfield website, with an anticipated launch in Fall 2026. This redesign represents a major investment in improving the usability, accessibility, and overall experience of the UIS web presence for students, faculty, staff, and the broader community.
The Office of Web & Digital Strategy is collecting feedback to guide the upcoming redesign of the uis.edu website. We’d like your perspective on what’s working well and what could be improved. Your input will help us better understand common challenges and positive experiences across campus. Your feedback will directly inform our redesign process as we work toward a Summer 2026 launch of the new site.
Inconsistent menus — where different parts of a site use different labels for the same content — can confuse users, slow down navigation, and undermine trust in the site. That’s why we’re launching an effort to standardize menu terminology and structure across all units.
Simplified, predictable menu labels and consistent structure help ensure that:
You spoke and we listened! The web team has added some new features and blocks based on feedback and requests.
There is now Image Cards with a description that can be used to add more visual elements through the editor.