Programming (Code)

Federal, State, and World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative Priority 1 Compliance

Unit web sites are required to meet the minimum federal guidelines for accessibility, as well as those put forth as a recommendation by the State of North Carolina.

• Summary of Section 508 Standards
  • See www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=11
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines,” Priority1
  • See http://ww.w3.org/TR/WCAG10

XHTML 1.0 Transitional

XHTML 1.0 is the minimum World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) programming standard for UNCG unit web sites. XHTML is a reformulation of HTML into an XML format; it will allow future compatibility with various devices and user agents. The transitional implementation of XHTML 1.0 is the most lenient and easiest to upgrade from HTML. XHTML may be either hand-coded or created with University-supported web development software. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1

Unit sites must be built according to this standard, not to a web technology product such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

Deprecated and presentational tags such as such as <font>, <b>, and <i> must be avoided in favor of CSS rules.

CSS 1.0

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 1.0 offers a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, and spacing) to web documents and web sites as a whole. CSS must be used for presentation of fonts and colors instead of HTML. CSS can be either external files attached to an XHTML page or snippets of code within an XHTML page.

Identity (Presentation)

A UNCG web page has three elements: Header, Body/Content Area, and Footer.

Technical specifications:

• The Body/Content Area must be 720 pixels wide or greater.
• If the unit pages are not a liquid layout (i.e., set to a percentage of screen width),
  the CSS media attribute must be set to "screen" or an alternate style sheet for other media,
  such as PDA or cell phones.
• The Body/Content Area must have no margins or padding; it must align to the upper left of
  the viewing area (0, 0).

Colors

A unit is not restricted to University Colors in the Body/Content area. However, if a unit chooses to employ University Colors, the correct web hex values are required, as detailed the University Colors specifications. See www.uncg.edu/ure/graphic_standards/color.html

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