Web Works Newsletter Summer 2024
June 2024
In this issue: What's New? | Get Your Website Ready for Summer | Accessibilty | Training Info
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What's New?
Optimizely Upgrade to CMS12 Coming
We are in the middle of an upgrade to our content management system, Optimizely. We are migrating from CMS11 to CMS12.
Here are some sneak previews of what's in store for our editors:
- What benefits you get by upgrading to Optimizely CMS 12
- 3 small, but helpful UI changes in CMS 12.10
Tell Us: What do you want to see on your website?
Please take a moment or two to share with the Web Services team your ideas/comments/challenges with editing your school or office website. We will use these responses to guide our website improvement plan for this coming school year. We appreciate all the work you do to keep our website up to date and accurate!
Get Your Website Ready for Summer
For Schools
- If Google calendars, sites, documents or social media accounts are owned by a staff member leaving your school, you will lose access to them. Update permissions before they leave!
- Update school supplies page if needed
- Remove old announcements and content (archive)
- Edit Welcome or Principal’s Welcome letter page and remove text related to School Year 23-24
- Change home page link cards and/or card carousel to put Supplies, Uniform, etc. in a more prominent location
For Offices
- Review Website Standards
- Review your website for outdated content and archive.
- Check your media folder for outdated documents and archive.
- Clean out your projects.
- Need assistance? Sign up for training or a website appointment
Review Our Website Standards
We are continually updating our website standards for offices and schools.
Accessibility Central
Try Out a Screen Reader
A great way to see if your site is accessible to people with vision disabilities is to test it using a screen reader.
For PCs
For our PCs, we have used the free screen reader NVDA to read our sites.
You can learn more about NVDA and how to install it here.
For MACs
MACs have a built-in screenreader - VoiceOver.