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content</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/images/">Using images in your content</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/images/sizes/">Image sizes for each content type</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/images/adding-images/">Adding images to your content</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/images/adding-images/using-existing-images-in-the-media-library/">Using existing images in the Media Library</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/images/adding-images/adding-new-images-to-the-media-library/">Adding new images to the Media Library</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/documents/">Adding documents: pdfs, Word, zip etc.</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/documents/document-link/">Adding a link to a document in your content</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/documents/editing-documents/">Editing and removing existing documents</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/google-calendar/">Google Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/maps/">Google Maps and Street View</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/maps/google-map/">Google Map (embed)</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/maps/street-view/">Street View (embed)</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/highlight-box/">Highlight box</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/highlight-box/call-to-action-button/">Call to action button</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/highlight-box/colour-block/">Colour block</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/highlight-box/document-download/">Document download button</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/highlight-box/video/">Video</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/icon-cards/">Icon cards</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/icon-cards/list/">All icon cards available</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/image-grid/">Image grid</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/infogram/">Infogram</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/issuu/">Issuu</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/key-facts/">Key facts</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/feature-item/">Landing page feature item</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/landing-page-text-with-featurelinks/">Landing page text with feature/links</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/lead-paragraph/">Lead paragraph</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/local-footer/">Local footers</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/logo-grid/">Logo grid</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/mailchimp/">MailChimp</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/">News and events</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/feed/">News and events feed</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/news-listing/">News listing</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/event-listing/">Event listing</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/event-summary/">Event summary</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/landing-page-news/">Landing page news story</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/news-and-events/manual-latest-news-block/">Manual latest news block</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/people-lists/">People lists and grids</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/people-lists/list/">People list</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/people-lists/grid/">People grid</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/people-lists/landing-grid/">Landing page people grid</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/prezi/">Prezi</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/quote-block/">Quote block</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/research-publications/">Research publications</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/slideshows/">Slideshows</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/slideshows/full-width-landing/">Slideshow - full width landing</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/slideshows/slideshow-tall/">Slideshow - tall</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/slideshows/slideshow-short/">Slideshow - short</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/social-metadata/">Social Metadata</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/soundcloud/">SoundCloud</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/tabs/">Tabs</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/umap/">uMap</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/videos/">Adding videos</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/videos/video-3-column/">Video - 3 column</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/videos/video-with-text/">Video with text</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/highlight-box/video/">Video in a highlight box</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/videos/video-playlist/">Video playlist</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/videos/video-general-content/">Video with general content</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/widgets-and-items/">Widgets and items</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/wufoo/">Wufoo</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/hiding-and-deleting/">Deleting and hiding content and sections (pages)</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/hiding-and-deleting/sections/">Hiding and deleting sections (pages)</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/content-types/general-content/documents/">Adding documents: pdfs, Word, zip etc.</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/restrict-access/">Restricting viewing access of your pages and documents</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/viewing-pages/">Previewing pages before they go live</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/publishing/">Publishing your pages (making them live)</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/jargon-buster/">Jargon glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/logging-in-error/">Error when logging into T4 (401 error) - how to resolve</a></li> </ul> </li><li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/">Digital tools and services</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/">Terminalfour (T4) Site Manager</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/">Qualtrics survey tool</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/creating-a-survey/">Creating a form / survey</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/publishing-forms/">Publishing a form / survey</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/reports/">Extracting survey data and reports</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/decommissioning/">Decommissioning your form and survey</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/survey-help/">Qualtrics surveys - further help</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/accessibility-qualtrics/">Accessibility on Qualtrics site</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/analytics-dashboards/">Analytics dashboards</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/analytics-dashboards/interpret-dashboard-data/">Guidance on your dashboard data</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/">Asset Library</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/search/">Searching for assets</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/search/search-tips/">Search tips</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/search/saved-searches/">Saved searches</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/downloading-assets/">Downloading assets</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/lightboxes/">Using lightboxes</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/uploading/">Uploading images</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/guest-access/">Requesting guest access to the Asset Library</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/asset-library/accessibility-statement/">Accessibility on the Asset Library site</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/blogs/">College blogs</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/blogs/how-to/">Blogs - getting started with WordPress</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/blogs/terms-of-use/">Terms and conditions </a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/blogs/accessibility/">Accessibility statement for Imperial blogs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/ict/training-and-resources/inclusive-technology/">Inclusive Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/ict/self-service/connect-communicate/sharing-and-collaboration-tools/sharepoint-online/">SharePoint</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/digital-signage/">Digital signage</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/digital-signage/large-screen-guidelines/">Main Entrance large screen guidelines</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/ict/self-service/connect-communicate/sharing-and-collaboration-tools/wikis/">Wikis</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/social-media/">Social media</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/be-inspired/social-and-multimedia/directory/">Social networks</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/news/">News website</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/news/creating-articles/">Creating news articles</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/events-website/">Events website</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/events-website/events-authors/">Instructions for events authors</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/events-website/feed-generator/">Using the feed generator</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/events-website/things-to-consider/">Approaches to consider</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/communications/what-we-do/internal-communications/email-newsletters/using-poppulo/">Poppulo (email newsletters)</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/search/">Search Engine</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/workspace-on-box/">Workspace on Box for public file sharing</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/mobile-apps/">Mobile apps</a></li> </ul> </li><li><span class="currentbranch0"><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/">Digital skills training</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><span class="currentbranch1"><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/">Web skills materials</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><span class="currentbranch2"><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/">Accessible content guidance</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/headings/">Using clear and effective headings</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/images/">Text alternatives for images</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/links/">Writing descriptive links</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/tables/">Using tables</a></li> <li><span class="currentbranch3"><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/">Publishing accessible documents online</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/">Creating accessible Office documents</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/image-alt-text/">Add alternative (alt) text to images</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/add-a-document-title-to-your-documents/">Add a document title to your documents</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/hyperlinks/">Make hyperlinks accessible</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/heading-styles/">Use heading styles properly</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/formatting-tables/">Formatting tables</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/checking-accessibility/">Checking the accessibility of your document</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/accessible-charts/">Making accessible charts</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/powerpoint/">Creating accessible PowerPoint presentations</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/video-audio/">Creating accessible video and audio</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/video-audio/descriptive-transcripts/">Provide a descriptive transcript for your videos</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/video-audio/podcasts/">Making accessible Podcasts (audio) </a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/video-audio/social-media/">Accessibility for social media</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/surveys/">Writing accessible surveys</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/checklist/">Accessible content checklist</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/writing-for-web/">Writing for the web</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/analytics-dashboards/">Analysing online traffic with Google Analytics dashboards</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/blogging/">Blogging</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/images/">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/seo/">Increasing the visibility of your website (SEO)</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/social-media/">Social Media</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/events/">Creating events</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/writing-news/">Writing news articles </a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/writing-news/content-guidance/">Content guidance</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/">Top tips</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/accordions/">Accordions</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/a-z-lists/">A-Z lists</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/bullet-points-and-numbered-lists/">Bullet points and numbered lists</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/call-to-action/">Writing calls to action</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/carousels/">Carousels</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/headings/">Headings</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/sidebars/">Sidebar content</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/tabbed-content/">Tabbed content</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/documents/">Uploading documents online</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/using-tables/">Using tables</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/collecting-personal-data/">Collecting personal data</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/top-tips/writing-surveys/">Writing Surveys</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/user-testing/">User testing techniques </a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/ga/">Google Analytics </a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/accessibility-course/">Digital Accessibility online course</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/t4-site-manager/">T4 website CMS training</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/events-website/events-authors/">Events website training</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/training-stats/">Online training feedback and stats</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/training-stats/accessibility/">Accessibility training feedback</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/training-stats/pwp/">PWP training feedback</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/training-stats/t4-training-stats/" class="">T4 V8 training overview stats</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/training-stats/t4-training-feedback/">T4 V8 training feedback</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li><li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/">Policies and standards</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/new-websites/">Creating a new website</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/comments/">Web and social media comments policy</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/url-policy/">URL policy</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/accessibility-standards/">Meeting our accessibility standards</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/accessibility-standards/teaching-videos/">Video standards for online teaching and learning </a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/accessibility-standards/regulations/">Digital accessibility regulations</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/accessibility-standards/exemptions/">Exemptions</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/accessibility-standards/testing-tools/">Accessibility testing tools</a></li> <li><a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/policies-and-guidance/accessibility-standards/glossary/">Digital 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This means everyone should be able to get the same information, including those with disabilities. Documents include PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.</p> <p>You should avoid online documents where possible and use web pages as the primary way for publishing information online. This has many benefits: </p> <ul> <li><strong>Accessibility: </strong>The templates and content types on the Imperial website meet AA standards. If you follow our advice on headings, links and images your content will be accessible too.</li> <li><strong>Responsive design: </strong>The Imperial website template displays on different screen sizes – from phones to large display screens.</li> <li><strong>Usability: Imperial</strong> web pages should offer a better user experience than someone downloading and opening a document.</li> <li><strong>Easier to find for users: </strong>Web pages have a much higher search ranking by Google than PDF or other documents.</li> <li><strong>Quicker and easier to update:</strong> Once a web page is created, small changes can be made easily. This is much quicker than updating and publishing a PDF.</li> <li><strong>More control of the truth: </strong>Web pages usually have the most up to date version of the content. With documents there is a risk of people sharing old and inaccurate content. </li> <li><strong>Branding:</strong> the website design meets Imperial's branding standards.</li> <li><strong>User data: </strong>There is much more data  about visitors to web pages so you can get insights on how they interact with your content.</li> </ul> <h2>Forms and surveys</h2> <p>You should use the College’s form and survey tool, <a rel="noreferrer" href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/tools/qualtrics/" title="Qualtrics%20survey%20tool" class="Hyperlink SCXW193915682" target="_blank">Qualtrics</a> rather than a PDF or word document. Qualtrics forms can be embedded directly on to your web pages. You can also check out our guidance on <a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/surveys/">writing accessible surveys</a>.</p> <h2>Email newsletters</h2> <p>Rather than send your internal newsletters as documents, we would recommend you use the Poppulo, the College's centrally-supported tool for managing and sending internal email newsletters to staff and students. Read the <a href="/admin-services/communications/what-we-do/internal-communications/email-newsletters/">guidance on how to write email newsletters and how to get access to Poppulo</a>.</p> <h2>Writing accessible PDF and other online documents</h2> <p class="Paragraph SCXW193915682">If you have to publish a document, it should be in addition to your web pages.  </p> <p>A good example of this is the <a href="/admin-services/finance/annual-report/">Annual Report and accounts</a>. This was created as a printed piece which was broken down into several web pages, to give it the greatest reach possible. The PDF version is offered as the secondary way to consume this information. </p> <p>The Nielsen Norman Group have written a great article on why you should <a title="Avoid PDFs for on-screen reading" href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/avoid-pdf-for-on-screen-reading/">avoid PDFs for on-screen reading</a> as well as some guidelines on how to use PDFs effectively.</p> <h2>Advice for making PDFs more accessible</h2> <p>Adobe have some great advice on how to <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/using/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html">Create and verify PDF accessibility</a> using Adobe Acrobat.</p> <h3>Adding a document title</h3> <p>One of the most simple, but important things you can add to your PDF document is a <em>document title</em>. The document title is stored in the file metadata and is often read by a screenreader user before they download the document, so adding this really helps them understand what the document is.</p> <h3>Adding a title in Adobe Acrobat</h3> <ol> <li>Choose <span class="uicontrol"><strong>File</strong></span> > <span class="uicontrol"><strong>Properties</strong></span> > <span class="uicontrol"><strong>Description</strong></span>.</li> <li>Enter a title in the <span class="uicontrol"><strong>Title</strong></span> text box.</li> <li>Click <span class="uicontrol"><strong>Initial View</strong></span>, and then choose <span class="uicontrol"><strong>Document Title</strong></span> from the <span class="uicontrol"><strong>Show</strong></span> drop-down list.</li> <li>Click <strong>OK</strong> to close the <strong>Description</strong> dialog box.</li> </ol> <h5>Using Microsoft Office to create PDF documents?</h5> <p>If you are creating your PDFs in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, there are instructions for <a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/add-a-document-title-to-your-documents/">adding a document title in Microsoft Office.</a></p> <h3>Guidance for creating accessible Microsoft Office documents</h3> <p>We have put together some guidance covering the main things you can do to <a href="/staff/tools-and-reference/web-guide/training-and-events/materials/accessibility/documents/ms-office/">make your Office documents more accessible</a>. This includes Word, PowerPoint and Excel.</p> <h4>PowerPoint presentations</h4> <p>Please ensure you always use the latest Imperial PowerPoint templates from the <a href="https://brand.imperial.ac.uk/">brand management platform</a>, which have been designed to be accessible. 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