News & Updates
cuTheme Go Live Checklist
Launching your website is an exciting milestone—congratulations! To help you transition smoothly, we’ve created this quick checklist. Follow these steps before submitting your go-live request: …
Yes it’s portable, but is it accessible? PDFs and a11y
Portable Document Files (PDFs) – we rely on them to convey a lot of information at Carleton. They are very useful – for the appropriate …
Don’t be the weakest link
Understanding link language Hyperlinks are the simple but essential snippet of technology that make the internet possible. (If they didn’t exist, imagine typing addresses every …
Upcoming Launch of the New University Event Calendar
We’re excited to announce that the University Event Calendar is being upgraded to a new, modern version.
New Web Accessibility website launches
Web Services in ITS has launched a new website focused on best practices for creating accessible content on Carleton websites. The Web Accessibility site highlights 10–15 commonly overlooked …
cuTheme Rollout: Phase 2 Begins!
We’re thrilled to share that Phase 2 of our cuTheme migration is officially underway. After a successful initial rollout, we are now focusing on the …
New VPN Requirement for Gravity Forms
We would like to inform you of an important update regarding the access and export of information via Gravity Forms. VPN Requirement for Accessing File …
Announcing the Pilot Phase of cuTheme Rollout
We are excited to announce that we will begin the pilot phase of our cuTheme rollout on June 10. During this phase, we will offer …
CU Ecommerce update
For the first time in eleven years CU Ecommerce enjoyed its very first planned outage last week. If you have an ecommerce page live and …
CAPTCHAing the moment with Forms
Occasionally, we come under attack. For once, it’s not for our dress sense. Instead, it’s a malicious cyber-attack. This occurs a few times every year: …
Being an A11y: the meaning of Accessibility
While there is a huge commitment to the principles of accessibility among the Carleton – and no more so among the community of people who …
Accessibility Wrapped 2023!
This is a list of the top web accessibility achievements at a very granular level. Looking through the list you might think this is a …