SwVCC Marketing Communication and Publication Guide

ADA Compliant Sites

SwVCC uses a product called LIFT TEXT which, when enabled and configured for  a web server/site, allows each page to be converted to text for easy delivery to PDA's or cell phones as well as screen readers "on the fly" or as it is requested through a browser.

This ensures page content delivered text only is the same content as the original site contains.

SwVCC uses stylesheets for formatting purposes which streamlines site maintenance and delivery. To meet basic requirements for a W3C WCAG / A compliant site, web publishers should do the following, at minimum:

1. DO NOT use frames to build web pages.

2. Provide a text description of EVERY image on a page, including bullets or other small images used in site building.

3. Leave a space at the UPPER LEFT CORNER of the site layout to contain a text only and skip to link.

Suggestions:

Go to http://www.sw.edu/substyle for a browsable directory of stylesheets and banner images for SwVCC pages. Only the BODY DIV portion of these stylesheets are customizable.

The substyle template provides:

Background META tags needed for site search tagging and ADA compliance.

Layout for search feature

Main navigation

Global information for SwVCC layout