The policies, guidelines and standards pertaining to the design of official web pages vary widely among University of Wisconsin campuses. Roughly, they can be categories as follows:
- Stand-alone accessible web design policies explicitly seeking compliance with the American Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), the W3C Guidelines or the "Access Board" Standards (Sect. 508).
- UW-Eau Claire (2000): Accessible Web Pages, along with Web Publishing & Accessibility
- UW-Madison (Jan. 22, 2001): Policy Governing World Wide Web Accessibility
- UW-Stevens Point (May 10, 1999): UWSP Guidelines for Accessibility of UWSP Web pages on the Internet
- UW-Whitewater (Jan. 11, 2000): Web Accessibility Guidelines/Web Accessibility Policy
- General web design policies which show some concern for accessible design and recognize (but do not necessarily fully appreciate) the ADA mandate.
- UW-Milwaukee (Feb. 20, 2001): University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Web Page Standards
- UW-Stout (March 5, 2001): Web Publishing Standards--Technical Infromation
- Web-related policies which emphasize readability by a broad range of browsers, including text-based Lynx, but do not reflect any cohesive concern for barrier-free accessibility and understanding of ADA.
- UW-Oshkosh (the previous March 14, 1996 version, mandated readability by a wide variety of browsers; the revised April 5, 1999 version, is much weaker in tone): Web Policies and Procedures
- UW-Platteville (Oct. 16, 2000): University of Wisconsin - Platteville World Wide Web Policy
- Web-related policies which call for a few accessible design features (excluding broad-range browser readability) but do not reflect any cohesive concern for barrier-free accessibility and understanding of ADA.
- UW-La Crosse: Web Style Guide
- Web-related policies which contribute close to nothing to web-page accessibility.
- UW-River Falls : World Wide Web Policy (April 15, 1996) and Standards (Oct.1998)
- UW-Green Bay (April 1, 1997): Office of the Provost--Policies and Procedures for the Campus Web Site
- UW-La Crosse : World Wide Web Policy Statement (Nov. 24, 1995; updated July18, 1996)
- No web policy found.
- UW-Parkside (none found on the UW-Parkside Administrative Policies)
- UW-Superior (The previously posted 1997 UW-Superior Web Publishing Guidelines, which fell into category 5, are no longer publicly accessible.)
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Created by Axel Schmetzke, Library, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Last updated
04/12/08
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Comments, corrections, updates, etc. are welcome! aschmetz@uwsp.edu
