PDF accessibility
The University website has over 5,000 PDF files, most of which do not comply with accessibility legislation. If documents do not meet accessibility standards they could be breaking the Equality Act 2010. How can we…
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Vimeo channel to shut down on 30 June 2023
The University of St Andrews Vimeo channel will be shut down on Friday 30 June 2023. Here is what this means for users of the channel and those who have uploaded videos to the channel in the past.
Teams, OneDrive SharePoint what is the difference?
Office 365 offers a number of different applications that can be used to save, share and organise your documents. Managing your files can get a bit confusing, after all, these applications are built on the same…
How to write a friendly filename
Naming a file is the first step of saving one. It is often the same as the title of the document, a description of a photograph or image, or similar. A filename that contains capital letters, special characters or…
Biology and Medicine multisite migration
Over the past year we have been responsible for migrating the Synergy and Medicine WordPress multisites (hosted by Biology and Medicine respectively) over to our WordPress host, WPEngine.
Retirement of old long form page styling
We are retiring the old long form page styles due to their accessibility issues.
Jakob’s Law
Jakob’s Law is a principle of user experience design. It states that: Users spend most of their time on other sites
The three hats of user experience
User experience (UX) and design patterns fall under three categories (or hats) – white hat, grey hat, and black hat – or more simply put, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Digital Communications team update – August 2022
Latest updates from the Digital Communications team for August 2022.
Heading ranks
Headings communicate the organisation of content on a page. Web browsers, plug-ins, and assistive technologies can use them to provide in-page navigation and to understand the relative importance of the information.