The Center for International Studies (CIS) has moved into the College of Arts and Sciences and is no longer considered its own standalone academic college. As a result, the UCM web team migrated their website from ohio.edu/cis to ohio.edu/cas/international-studies. You may notice that their top menu and site structure has changed significantly. We worked closely with CIS to audit all their previous pages and site structure, and wrap in a site overhaul in the move. When referencing their site from your own, please be sure to use the new URL paths.

Please check the CIS Link Audit spreadsheet of any remaining links across the site that are pointing to the old ohio.edu/cis pages and update any of your own pages appropriately — by 09/15/2024. As usual, highlight completed corrections in green. After this date, the UCM web team will correct any remaining links.

The College of Health Sciences and Professions recently changed the way their schools and departments are structured. The School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness has broken apart into three departments:

Similarly, the School of Rehabilitation and Communications Science broke into three departments: 

The UCM web team worked with the college to make these website changes in site structure and content. You'll also notice most of the left menus for each department are now separate top menus for improved site navigation and user experience.

Please check the CHSP Department Audit spreadsheet for any remaining links or references across the site to the old ohio.edu/ahsw or ohio.edu/rehab URLs or school names, by 09/15/2024. After this date, the UCM web team will correct any remaining items. There are 4 tabs on the spreadsheet that need to be checked.

You may have seen recently that the College of Fine Arts has received a generous gift commitment, resulting in it being renamed. In any website references, please refer to the College's name as "Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts." The UCM web team has already updated the overall Fine Arts site name and a handful of top-level pages.

Please check the COFA Name Reference Audit spreadsheet for any remaining references to "College of Fine Arts" and use your judgment if the longer name should be added; it may not be necessary in every instance. Please do this by 09/15/2024. After this date, the UCM web team will correct any remaining items. Note there are three tabs to be checked on the spreadsheet.

Remember that October 1 is the deadline for reviewing and making a decision about the remediation plan for any files linked from your website. 

May 1, 2024  | Any new document (including PDF, Excel, Word docs, etc.) must be remediated before it can be posted on a Drupal website.
October 1, 2024 | All existing documents must be reviewed and a decision for action made.
May 1, 2025 | Any document linked from ohio.edu must be remediated or it will be removed from the website until it is in compliance.

The IT Accessibility office sent an email to all primary site managers with a link to your PDF report on July 8, 2024. For your reference, an excerpt is below:

This is the most recent scan of documents.xlsx on our website: Please navigate to the instructions tab on the spreadsheet and follow the steps provided to help you with finding your documents.

Please contact OIT’s Digital Accessibility Team: itaccessibility@ohio.edu. You can drop in on any of the UCM Web Team Open Labs that occur every Tuesday at 2 p.m. EST or Thursday at 9 a.m. EST with your questions about how to make an action decision on the files.

Many colleges and offices have documents stored in the OHIO Website SharePoint folder for linking from the web. These documents need to be reviewed (by the Oct 1 deadline) to ensure only needed/relevant documents are stored here and an action decisoin is made. This Sharepoint library is not to be used for document storage and should be reserved to house documents linked to from the ohio.edu website.

Note that the OHIO Website folders are only for active documents linked from the web. Any documents stored for historical or internal use, should be stored in your department’s SharePoint library (not OHIO Website library).  Your SharePoint 

If you need to remediate a PDF, make sure it is created following the Accessible Document Guidelines, and then complete the UCM Request for document remediation by our third party vendor.