Campus Web Committee

Checklist For Publishing Sites At Highline

Use this checklist to review your sites before publishing them. It will help you ensure that your sites are usable by the vast majority of students and other visitors to your web site. The Multimedia Instructional Development Studio (MIDS) has Macintosh and PC computers available for faculty and staff use. MIDS is located on the 6th floor of the library, near the Faculty Resource Center.

Please do not post a redesigned site to the public server until you have reviewed it using this checklist.  Contact your Web Manager to request development space, if you do not have it.

College Web Standards

• Each page contains name of organization unit
• Each page contains contact person, e-mail and phone number
• Each page contains date of last update
• The Highline logo links to the college home page (http://www.highline.edu) on all pages
• Images have correct width and height attributes; any changes in image size are done by a graphics editing program, and not in the code
• All pages have been spell checked
• All pages have been proof-read by someone other than the creator
• File download size is posted for all downloaded files greater than 50K in size

Accessibility

• Images have meaningful ALT tags (someone who could not see the picture would understand what was in it, or if it's clickable, what it links to)
• Colorblind users can see all necessary functions (http://www.vischeck.com) an help determine this, or make sure that information represented by a color is also represented some other way)
• Page achieves Level 1 Compliance  when validated at www.contentquality.com

Computer/Browser Compatibility

Pages should view similarly, and work effectively, on the following computer/browser combinations:

• Macintosh, Safari
• Macintosh, Internet Explorer
• Windows, Firefox
• Windows, Internet Explorer

Screen size

• Page is fully visible at screen resolution of 800x600

Functionality

• Members of the audience have used the page and provided feedback
• Each page has a meaningful <title> tag in the header
• Content has been verified (hours open, procedures, costs, activities, schedule, etc.)

Page last updated March 5. 2008