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The new Colorado accessibility law, HB21-1110, affects university websites and went into effect July 1, 2024. This means that university website owners/content managers must ensure your website content meets the minimum web accessibility standards.
Learn how to meet accessibility standardsThere's a tendency to publish web writing that is more focused on what it wants to say than what the user needs to know. Good content allows people to do or find what they need quickly and easily.
Identify your audience. Consider what they’re interested in or worried about – so your writing will catch their attention and answer their questions. Use the same terms and phrases they’ll use to search for content.
The ideal journey of your user:
The words on your website don't only convey meaning. They also convey personality, through voice and tone. Web writing, along with visual content, express the personality of our campus brands, as well as the identity of your university unit. The voice and tone of your site should be purposeful and consistent across all pages. In all university publications, we speak with a voice that evokes the energy of our Colorado environment and supports the quality standards of the University of Colorado.
Learn more about CU Denver voice and tone. Guides on CU Anschutz voice and tone are a resource yet to come.
The university follows Associated Press style, with several exceptions, which are detailed in our university editorial style guide. Some of these include: no use of the serial (Oxford) comma. In headlines and subheads, capitalize only the first letter of the first word and proper nouns, like names of people, places and events. And don't use end punctuation in headlines unless it's part of a quotation or you need a question mark.
Filling in meta data fields helps improve website accessibility (so all users can access your content on any device) and SEO (so your page will come up when a user does a Google search).
Enter these in page Title & Properties:
Enter this when you add image and video files to libraries:
Find rules for serial commas, composition titles, abbreviations and more.