Action Needed: No action needed from editors right now. Retheming Update: The New Design Has Been Approved Our university website retheming project is now underway, and the new design has recently been approved. This is an important step. Our current website theme is five years old. Five years may not sound like much, but on the…
The Deadline Moved, but Some Weeds Are Still There
Action Needed: Review pages and documents. Remove, archive or update outdated content where appropriate. Accessibility Update: The Deadline Has Been Extended The Department of Justice has extended the Title II web and mobile app accessibility compliance deadline for larger public entities to April 26, 2027. The DOJ also confirms that the rule uses WCAG 2.1, Level…
Silktide Is Going Statewide
Action Needed: Continue using Silktide as usual until told otherwise. What Is Silktide? Silktide is a website quality tool that helps us find and fix issues across our sites. It can help identify accessibility problems, broken links, spelling and grammar issues, content quality concerns and policy items. Silktide describes its content tools as checking spelling, grammar…
June 26 Is Bringing an Eraser
Action Needed: Save or move anything important from the test site before June 26, 2026. Maintenance Is Scheduled for June 26, 2026 The next website deployment is scheduled for June 26, 2026. During this maintenance window, the test site will be overwritten by the live site.That means any pages, edits, uploads or other work created only…
We Made a Study Guide for Search Engines. You’re Welcome.
Action Needed: No action needed from editors. Schema Has Been Added We have recently added Schema to the website. Schema is also called structured data. That sounds more complicated than it is. Think of Schema like labels on a file folder. The labels do not change what is inside the folder, but they help someone understand…
Developer Spotlight: Steven D. Shelton
Steven Shelton Digital Development Librarian Associate Professor UTC Library Library IT Did you know UTC’s web team extends beyond our small group of three in the Division of Communications and Marketing? We are fortunate to work with two talented developers in Library IT—Steven Shelton and Natalie Wright—who support major web projects, including the upcoming retheme.…
What to Know About Editor Access and Training
To keep UTC’s web content usable for everyone, editor access will be tied directly to required accessibility training, ensuring that UTC is in compliance with the DOJ accessibility mandate. Content editors who have not completed the training by Feb. 6, 2026, will have access to their accounts paused until the requirement is met. This isn’t…