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LibGuides Standards & Best Practices: Guide Checklist

Best Practices Checklist

Guidelines Instructions
  Naming conventions followed for both guide title and page titles Guide Type & Name
  Guide type assigned
  Guide subjects assigned
  Friendly URL assigned Getting Started: Friendly URLs
  Profile box is added to the guide home page Creating Content
Accessibility Guidelines
  Content is thematically chunked into pages and boxes
  Content reused when possible
  Text written with web consumption in mind: keep it short and simple
  Resource lists are kept short and organized in order of importance
  Consider your users: use plain language and be inclusive when adding content
  Be selective about what to create and be future-friendly
  Use default font with minimal italics and bold and no underlining or ALL CAPS Accessibility Guidelines
  Start with Heading 3 when you use headers for content structure in rich text editor
  Link text (title) should be descriptive
  Database or links descriptions should display beneath the link title
  All images have alt-text descriptions
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