Archives: AODA

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

New Grad Students Website

Web Services worked with the  Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs to launch a new Graduate Student website. Grad Students can easily navigate the site which has the most up-to-date information about key resources such as thesis requirements, awards and funding information and professional development opportunities (Grad Navigate). As... More

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Visit the new Undergraduate Admissions website

Web Services has worked with Admissions to design and launch a new Undergraduate Admissions website! It features a fresh new look, a reorganized How to Apply section, an updated Ask Carleton resource, and enhanced program and website search tools. You can view our wide selection of videos in our video gallery and find out... More

Thursday, April 4, 2013

AODA: Web Accessibility Requirements

Website accessibility falls within the information and communications standard of AODA. Section 14 states: “Designated public sector organizations and large organizations shall make their internet websites and web content conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, initially at Level A and increasing to Level AA.” All new... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Introducing the New Current Students Website

Current Students now have a new and improved website. The new Carleton Current Students site runs off WordPress 3.5.1 and uses Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS) as a CSS pre-processor. When coding the site, it was important for it to be fully accessible and responsive. When designing the site, the Office of the Associate Vice-President... More

Monday, February 25, 2013

Coffee Break with Web Services Recap

Last Wednesday, Web Services hosted their 6th Coffee Break with Web Services event. At this event, the Web Services department presented on various topics, including  upcoming AODA web requirements, the new CCMS template for departmental and administrative websites, training and support and latest accomplishments. To read more about the event,... More

Monday, February 11, 2013

Important notice about Carleton Websites and Accessibility

Carleton University is committed to meeting our obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). For all of our websites, this means conforming to Section 14 of the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation. As such, Carleton websites and web content must conform to accessibility standards by January 2014. If... More

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