Web and accessibility training
The following trainings help to:
- Ensure all web content is accessible to everyone regardless of physical disabilities.
- Maintain the health of our websites including university branding and communication standards.
What is accessibility?
Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring that no barriers prevent the interaction with, or access to, university websites and digital platforms by people with impaired abilities. While many features, checks and enhancements are integrated into our systems and methodology, many accessibility practices are still applied manually by the content creators/editors.
Who is a web editor?
CLAS web editors are all personnel with access to edit websites and/or social media platforms within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Required training
1. CMS training
- Who must complete this? All editors accessing university websites that use the cms.wayne.edu platform.
- Access: Self-paced
- Course: Web Communications
- CLAS web editor guide: Welcome to your new website (you must review and acknowledge this before receiving access)
2. Basic accessibility training
This training satisfies the requirements to help ensure adherence to the university's web accessibility policy.
- Who must complete this? All editors publishing on university websites (including faculty sites), social media platforms and HTML email creation tools regardless of the content management system (e.g., CMS, WordPress, Twitter, etc.)
- Access: Self-paced
- Courses:
- Virtual Accessibility Training (for web/email + social media roles)
- Social Media Accessibility Training (for social media roles only)
- Note: The Virtual Accessibility Training is for those who edit websites, manage social media and send HTML emails. The Social Media Accessibility Training covers social media management only and satisfies the university's accessibility requirements. You should complete the accessibility training that supports your role.
- Optional: Read the official university announcement regarding web accessibility training
3. I've completed training, now what?
Although we're able to verify that you completed your assigned training courses, the CLAS Marketing Team does not receive a formal notification that you've done so. Once you've completed your training course(s), please notify us at clas@wayne.edu to receive access to your assigned platforms.
FAQs
- Are faculty/lab/conference site editors required to complete training?
Yes. Faculty/staff hosting individual sites on wayne.edu must complete basic accessibility training (item two from above) to help ensure that all content published under any wayne.edu entity adheres to the university's accessibility standards.
Faculty/lab/conference sites hosted on other platforms outside of the university's CMS, e.g., WordPress, manual FTP and HTML, Wix, etc., are not required to complete CMS training (item one from above) as that training is specific to the university's CMS platform.
Faculty with questions/concerns about making their materials accessible should visit the OTL Virtual Resource Hub for assistance.
- Is social media content required to be accessible?
Yes. The university is required to provide equal access to all content published regardless of platform, i.e. website, social, etc. Within the Virtual Accessibility Training course, there is a dedicated module for Social media accessibility that explains how to format accessible content per platform, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- What training items do I need to complete?
All editors publishing on wayne.edu sites must, at a minimum, complete the accessibility training (item two from above). Publishers using the university's content management system (CMS) (department, program sites, etc.) should complete item one as well.
We are currently developing a generic web training course that is non-platform-specific (WordPress, manual HTML, etc.) for best practices on wayne.edu sites.