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Digital Accessibility is now guaranteed for everyone, ensuring that all people have equal access to web content, mobile applications, and digital tools when visiting a site provided by state or local government. The April 2024 ADA updates reinforce the requirement that public entities, including George Mason University, provide fully accessible digital experiences by adhering to WCAG 2.1 AA standards by April 2026.

Digital Accessibility is now guaranteed for everyone, ensuring that all people have equal access to web content, mobile applications, and digital tools - at least when visiting a site provided by state or local government. Both the SiteMasonry and Mason WordPress themes meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 standards. To maintain digital accessibility text, images, videos, audio, and documents must be formatted to meet WCAG 2.1 guidelines.

George Mason University is committed to ensuring an inclusive digital experience. Both the SiteMasonry and Mason WordPress themes comply with Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA standards. One essential practice to maintain accessibility is adding descriptive alt text to images.

Guidelines for how to best use heading elements h1 through h6 to structure your content for accessibility and SEO

Academic program pages let you make a centralized promotional page that can be called upon from any SiteMasonry site connected to Content Hub. This is particularly handy as news stories frequently mention academic programs tied to people or events going on.

SiteMasonry Site Owners are able to add FontAwesome icons to a site media library. Icons can be used to customize CTAs and Mosaic Tiles. Social media icons can be used to configure the Socia Media Display block in a site's footer.

Redirects point from one URL to another. This is important to ensure that, when a page is deleted in favor of a new one, old links will still function.

The SiteMasonry's distributed content library, Content Hub, allows editors to add and share news articles, faculty profiles, and program descriptions to any (or all) sites on the SiteMasonry platform. Here's how to edit an existing item in Content Hub.

The SiteMasonry's distributed content library, Content Hub, allows editors to add and share stories, profiles, and program descriptions to SiteMasonry sites.

SiteMasonry's versioning workflow allows content to be modified in an un-published Draft state without changing the publically viewable (Published) version of the page or content item (news item, profile, or program)

Files that are being shared off Mason sites need to be stored in Blackboard. Review the steps you need to take to make a file public.

As a website editor, one of your main responsibilities is to ensure that the content on your site is easy to navigate and provides a seamless user experience. One way to accomplish this is by implementing best practices for links on your web pages.