Menu Terminology
Consistency in menu and navigation terminology ensures a clear, accessible experience for all users. To support this, UIS has developed a standard set of menu labels.
Consistency in menu and navigation terminology ensures a clear, accessible experience for all users. To support this, UIS has developed a standard set of menu labels.
The Office of Web and Digital Strategy has launched new department/term content blocks and new card blocks to provide additional options for editors to use, without requiring custom code!
Department content blocks include feeds for Programs of Study, News, Events, Directory, Featured Profiles, Resources, Research and FAQs. This allows these feeds to added within the gutenberg editor and moved anywhere within the page content.
You can now insert an accordion into anywhere in your content! Simply find the block called "Accordion" and insert it into your content within the editor. From there, you'll title your accordion and then insert most any block you'd like in the accordion body.
Department blocks can added to any Page by clicking the + button in the editor and clicking or searching for the block name.
Editors have the option to add content specific to their department or for some, by term. There are various types of blocks available for use:
Sign up for website editor training on the uis.edu website. Training typically lasts an hour and is open to all staff and students.
To comply with the Department of Justice’s accessibility ruling, the Office of Web & Digital Strategy will now only allow PDF uploads to websites, as they are compatible with current accessibility scanning tools. Uploading other file types will no longer be permitted.
Now editors have the option to add articles to Orbit for their employee news and announcements.
You can do so by selecting an option the Orbit news category, and the corresponding subcategory on what type of Orbit article it is:
Mobile accessibility is covered in existing W3C WAI accessibility standards/guidelines. There are not separate guidelines for mobile accessibility.
The Office of Web & Digital Strategy at the University of Illinois Springfield is passionate about accessibility. For the web, not only does law require it, it is the right thing to do.
The official UIS primary colors are Blue and White. See below for standard color codes for print and electronic media (websites and other screen-based presentations).
Pantone (PMS): #295
CMYK: C-100, M-57, Y-0, K-40
RGB: R-0, G-51, B-102
Hex: 003366