As many people have noticed, we’ve altered the headers, colors, and fonts in UCLA’s LibGuides to match the recent modifications to the Library’s main site. These changes were made to meet accessibility standards for the web. Please review your public guides to ensure that there changes worked properly on all pages. In a few rare cases, mostly involving tables, you may need to edit your guide to adapt to the new colors. Please contact Scott Martin if you need help doing so or spot any other problems.
There’s also one accessibility upgrade which we need you to do. One of the major requirements for an accessible website (usually #1 on any list) is to include alt text for every image. This is the text that will be read by a screen reader if the user has one. Please make sure all images you’ve added in your guides have alt text. You can add or edit alt text in the LibGuides rich text editor by right clicking on an image and selecting “Image Properties”.
Remember, alt text is a replacement for the image when the image can’t be seen, so should convey the “meaning” of the image. It should be short but informative. A good way to test your alt text is to turn off the images in your browser and see if the resulting page makes sense. For more detailed advice, see http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/
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