Web: Policies
Understand UCSC policies, rules, and regulations, including:
- Policies for use of UCSC computing facilities
- Restrictions on use of University resources and facilities for political activities
- University of California Electronic Communications Policy
- Rule Book for Campus Activities, Organizations, and Students
Include only material to which you own the copyright:
- See UC Policy and Guidelines on the Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials for Teaching and Research
- Obtain explicit written consent before reproducing any content to which you do not own the copyright
- Obtain written permission of any people shown in any photographs (see Photo Release Forms page)
Provide access for the widest audience, including those with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act:
- Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). This includes: images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), image map regions, animations (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic objects, ascii art, frames, scripts, images used as list bullets, spacers, graphical buttons, sounds (played with or without user interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio tracks of video, and video.
- Ensure that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.
- Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets. For example, when an HTML document is rendered without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read the document.
- Provide client-side image maps instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape. Provide redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map.
- Title each frame to facilitate frame identification and navigation.
- Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site's content.
- For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation. Provide text transcriptions as well.
- For data tables, identify row and column headers (except in the case where the table is being used for layout purposes).
- Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported. If this is not possible, provide equivalent information on an alternative accessible page.
- Clearly identify changes in the natural language of a documents text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions).
- Provide alternate mechanisms for online forms
- Make link text descriptive but not verbose
- File formats other than HTML (e.g. PDF) should not be used in place of HTML files
- Test Web pages using multiple browsers (especially LYNX)
- Use "Bobby" a free web-based tool that analyzes your site for accessibility to people with disabilities and offers additional recommendations on how to increase your site's accessibility.