General guidelines

Custom CSS and custom content

There is a custom css field and possibilities to add script and other content in articles. Please use this with utmost care as Digitalist that host and support the sites have no control of content changes done by an editor.

Consequences by adding or changing current CSS is that functionality might break or look really bad when upgrading the platform.

Accessibility

When editing content it is easy to exclude people if you do not have equal usage in mind. Here is a few examples what to always consider and further reading:

Read more about accessibility

Video content

Make sure video content is paced in a way that the visitor and avoid flickering animations and sequences that can cause seizures. Use understandable language and give an alternative in text in the video article.

Captioning of videos

Do not include text in a video. It does not scale, it is not translatable and is hard to read. A visitor can't control the text display if it is "burnt into the video".

More information about video and captioning