Ken Newquist

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I'm the director of app and integration development at a liberal arts college, a freelance #writer, #scouter, Seeing Eye #puppyraiser & #geek parent.

My interests include #WordPress #Moodle #WebContentManagement #InternalCommunications #DataAnalytics #EnterpriseReporting #Podcasting and #EnterpriseArchitecture #Backpacking #Camping #Scouting

For my geeky profile, follow
https://dice.camp/@nukehavoc

Bloghttps://sites.lafayette.edu/newquisk

We're trapped in a maze of Google Support, trying to get them to acknowledge that access to our business profile semi-broken.

We can manage it through the backend, but the Google Search interface isn't working (it works for other profiles).

If you've encountered this phenomenon and have any suggestions, please post to this support thread: https://support.google.com/business/thread/252143042/verified-owner-can-t-access-business-profile

Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters (hat tip to Joshua Walker of the University of Michigan, who posted about this over on #HEWEB Slack).

Now to find the time to read all of these... #accessibility

https://www.tpgi.com/digital-accessibility-blogs-and-newsletters/

Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters - TPGi

Digital accessibility blogs and newsletters

TPGi

I came across this on the #Accessibility channel of HighEdWeb Slack, and it was too good not to share (hat tip to Joshua Hori of UC Davis):

A visual map of WCAG 2.2:
https://intopia.digital/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Intopia-WCAG-2.2-Map.pdf

Back from #HEWeb23 and wanting to do all the new and shiny things. But first ... work.
Academic Program Pages: Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty Bitty Living Space

Learn how Old Dominion University increased traffic with an academic program webpage redesign.

Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals
Next session at #HEWeb23: "Leveraging machine learning to meet goals, serve prospective and current students at ASU". #MachineLearning
Somehow, I didn't realize that Dayana Kibilds had a podcast. Subscribing now. #Podcasts #HigherEd https://www.enrollify.org/podcasts/talking-tactics
Enrollify | Podcasts | Talking Tactics with Day Kibilds

Listen and follow Talking Tactics to learn from and celebrate your most creative and resourceful peers reaching enrollment success — one tactic at a time. Hosted by Day Kibilds

#HEWeb23, Day 2 starts with "Data visualization cheap and easy-ish or, lessons learned from a data dashboard project".

ok, actually, it started with a bacon & egg sandwich, but the second thing was data dashboards. :)

#Dashboards #Analytics

Equalify - a reporting tool for web accessibility. This looks very cool as a Siteimprove alternative.

https://equalify.app/

Equalify – Accessibility Reporting At Scale

This is awesome, and exactly what we've been looking for: an inline accessibility checker for WordPress:

Editoria11y - Inline editor reporting
https://wordpress.org/plugins/editoria11y-accessibility-checker/

Editoria11y Accessibility Checker

Content accessibility checker written to be intuitive and useful for non-technical authors and editors.

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