As digital practitioners, we’re often responsible for maintaining and/or abiding by our institution’s editorial and style guidelines. But do our guidelines reflect what’s actually best for our users?
Sarah Richards and her team at Content Design London have been looking into a creating a universal style guide that’s evidence-based, aimed at promoting best practice in accessibility and usability. As a sector, editorial and style guidelines in HE should reflect the same – we should be presenting content in a way that’s best received by our audiences.
In this workshop, we’ll first discuss a selection of editorial and style elements, what we do at our own institutions and any reasoning behind why we use a particular style. We’ll then work together to research and evaluate what styles are best for our users.
Summary
- Title: Cascading Style Guides: Finding Evidence For Editorial Best Practice
- Type: Workshop
- Hashtag: #A3
- Facilitator: Lauren Tormey, University of Edinburgh
- Date and time: 16.30-17.30, Wednesday 26 June 2019