Official web pages include the Buffalo State home page (www.buffalostate.edu); academic department and program pages; office, administrative, and support unit pages; and news and information pages. Nonofficial pages include individual faculty and staff web pages.
Official web pages developed outside the template system but still residing on the www.buffalostate.edu server are required to follow the Web Publishing Standards.
Nonofficial pages (intranet-residing or personal pages) are not required to follow the Web Publishing Standards, with these exceptions: nonofficial web pages residing on any Buffalo State server must be ADA compliant and free of copyright violations, commercial advertising, and inappropriate material. In addition, only official versions of the college logo may be featured on unofficial pages. Nonofficial pages also should reflect up-to-date content.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT
The guidelines on this site explains how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities.
Section 508 Checklist
http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/checklist
All of the standards on this site are excerpted from Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, 1194.22. - a helpful, once-over-style checklist, for people trying to determine if their sites are compliant.
Policies of ADA
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/
The policy links on this page are compiled as a resource by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG).
