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How to Make Article Text Accessible
Updated onArticleAdding headings to your articles not only helps to convey their structure visually, but can also aid end-users that rely on screen readers (eg. they can listen to a list of headings, skip around between headings, etc.). We recommend keeping headings short and nesting them, as appropriate.
To assist authors in creating this structure, the document outline section of both the web and desktop ScreenSteps applications displays the heading level that will be reflected in the published article. They start at the H2 level (given the article title is always the designated H1) and end at H5.
Additional Help Resources Accessibility Accessible Articles
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How to Check That Your Site Pages are Accessible
Updated onArticleThe default color presets for the 2019 template are AA WCAG 2.1 compliant. If you choose to adjust your template colors (either to achieve AAA compliance or for branding purposes), you may want to run your site pages through the WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool in order to ensure they still meet (or exceed) the default compliance.
Additional Help Resources Accessibility Accessible Sites
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How to Turn Automatically Generated ALT Tags On/Off
Updated onArticleThis feature is only available in the desktop editor.
Setting Up ScreenSteps Authoring Content Working with Images
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ScreenSteps Accessibility Updates April 2018
Updated onArticleOver the last several months we have been doing a lot of work to make it easier for ScreenSteps Knowledge Bases to meet accessibility standards. These standards are often required by higher educational institutions.
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How to Add a Link to Another Article, Heading, Chapter or Manual
Updated onWorkflowThis article will show you how to add a link to an existing article, heading within an article, manual or chapter in your site. The advantage of using this method to add links in your articles is that no matter where you move your articles in your site, ScreenSteps will maintain the link. This prevents your links from breaking if you ever reorganize your site.
Setting Up ScreenSteps Authoring Content Writing Articles
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WordPress integration is discontinued with version 4
Updated onArticleAs of ScreenSteps 4 the ScreenSteps WordPress integration will no longer be maintained. This decision was made due to the overall lack of adoption of this feature.
Our WordPress integration was updated in order to support the new article format in ScreenSteps 4 so existing WordPress connections will continue to work. We will not be adding features or releasing bug fixes going forward, however.
If you would like to display your ScreenSteps content in WordPress we recommend that you use the ScreenSteps API.
If you have questions, send them to [email protected].
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How to Allow Users to Rate Articles
Updated onArticleIf a site is private then you can turn on article ratings.
Setting Up ScreenSteps Customize Your Site Comments and Ratings
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How to Enable/Disable Comments for Articles
Updated onArticleIn ScreenSteps you decide whether or not you want comments to appear at the end of articles. You can control whether or not comments appear at the following three levels:
- Site settings
- Manual settings
- Article Settings
If comments are turned off for a site then no comments will appear for any articles in the site. If comments are turned on for a site then you can turn comments off for an individual manual by editing the manual properties. If comments are enabled for a site and a manual then the article setting can turn comments off for an individual article.
Setting Up ScreenSteps Customize Your Site Comments and Ratings
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How to Customize Your Login Screen
Updated onArticleYou can customize the look of your login screen by adding custom CSS in your account settings.
Setting Up ScreenSteps Customize Your Site Basic Customizations