MC
Specific Standards
- Every web directory
on MC live servers MUST have a file called index.htm
or index.html, and this file must be the top-level navigation
'home' page for that directory.
- Display the name
of the Content Manager, phone number, e-mail, and mailing
address on the index page (home page) of each site.
- Use
links to display important content that is managed by other
college units -- especially such time-sensitive information
as schedules, curriculum, and course descriptions -- in order
to avoid outdated material and errors. Do not replicate or paraphrase such
information directly on your pages.
- Review
content frequently and update as needed to ensure accuracy
and currency, especially near the opening of registration
for each new semester.
- Display a standard
Montgomery College banner across
top of the page for all top level pages and on index (home)
page for department and
individual (personal) web sites. The banner must load each
time from the main College website -- i.e. banner image should
not simply be copied onto your local page. Please see http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/webinfo/bannerOptions.html for
a list of banner images. (Note: This standard does not
apply to MC Infonet website.)
- Name
files properly. Use only non-special characters and no
spaces in web
site filenames.
- Once a set
of web pages has been published, maintainers should avoid
reorganizing
the material in ways that change the file names of any part
of the material. There is no way to judge how widely existing
URL's
have been book-marked or linked to from other locations. Arbitrary
name changes will cause content to disappear. If a name change
is unavoidable, always cover any prior file names with working
pages directing the viewer to the new location.
- When entirely
new folders are created
-- even inside already existing accounts -- any shifting of
previously existing links
to point to material in the new folder(s) must be managed, in
cooperation with IT Web Group staff, to preserve 'automatic' forwarding
from the legacy URL's at least until all in-house menus and directories
can be brought up to date with this new navigation. Only then
will warning message be loaded at the legacy URL, for outside
clients to update their bookmarks.
- Each
document's <HEAD> element must contain a meaningful and concise
<TITLE>.
- Use relative
hyperlinks. This allows web pages to be domain name or
path independent,
increasing their portability.
- Ensure that
web
pages successfully function in the most commonly used Internet
browsers.
- Content Manager
or Point of Contact is responsible for maintaining
back-up of web pages, and for restoring their individual
sites in the event of any corruption of online data (such as
accidentally loading an incorrect page, needing to restore an
earlier version, etc.)
- Always reference
'http://www.montgomerycollege.edu' as the official
URL of Montgomery College.
- Clearly
identify the target of each link. Link text should
be meaningful enough to make sense when read out of context.
For example, "Follow this link for exam information" ---
but NEVER "Follow
this link for exam information"
Accessibility
Standards
MC
supports accessibility of College websites to all users,
including people with disabilities using assistive technology.
To promote accessibility, the College will use Federal
Section 508 Standards for Electronic and Information
Technology (36 CFR §1194.21-.22). The
508 standards are listed below with links to a tutorial
to assist developers in applying the Standards. Links
to and
examples from the
US Access Board's implementation guidelines, as well
as the MC
.edu and Intranet websites are also provided to present
a variety of approaches to meet the accessibility standards. |
- A text
equivalent for every
non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc",
or in element content).
- Equivalent alternatives
for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.
- Web pages shall
be designed so that all information
conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.
- Documents shall
be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated
style sheet.
- Redundant text
links shall be provided for each active region of a server-side
image map. [Note: Montgomery College websites do not use server-side image
maps.]
- Client-side
image maps shall be provided instead of server-side image maps except
where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric
shape.
- Row
and column headers shall be identified for data tables.
- Markup
shall be used to associate data cells
and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers.
-
Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification
and navigation.
- Pages shall be designed
to avoid causing the screen to flicker with
a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz (2 to 55 flashes
per second).
- A text-only page,
with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make
a web site comply with the provisions of this part,
when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content
of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes.
- When pages
utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the
information provided by the script shall be identified with functional
text that can be read by assistive technology.
- When a web page requires
that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client
system to interpret page content, the page must provide
a link to
a plug-in or applet that complies with §1194.21(a) through (l).
- When electronic
forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall
allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field
elements,
and functionality required for completion and submission of the form,
including all directions and cues.
- A method shall be provided
that permits users to skip repetitive navigation
links.
- When a timed
response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient
time to indicate more time is required.
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