Re: News is only found on the index page of the new WAI site?

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Gotcha. So we don't forget, I added it *under* "About W3C WAI" in <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pqcSChcWZwTShpov34jDfvX2E-jW6_M5khV38D53Qqk/edit#gid=887243996>

In footer is good for now, although I don't think it's a priority to bother Eric with this week!

We haven't looked at the footer at all, afaik, so we'll probably have other changes to it, too.

~Shawn


On 9/26/2017 2:46 PM, Wise, Charlotte wrote:
> The issue is that there is a section of the site that should be findable that is only available on the home page, and that breaks a fundamental rule of usability. Revisitable content like news should be in the navigation somewhere; that's a common convention everywhere on the web. It won't clutter up the utility navigation to put a 4-character word up there next to "About W3C WAI," but if that is a concern, I think we absolutely should at least put it in the footer right now.
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> Best,
> Charlotte
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> Subject: Re: News is only found on the index page of the new WAI site?
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> On 9/26/2017 1:54 PM, Wise, Charlotte wrote:
>> Just want to confirm that News is only available below the fold of the index page of the
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> I still think the fundamental problem is that News is too far down on the home page. It is *News* :-) (and it is the easiest thing to be updated frequently). If the concern with having it higher up was visual design -- ie, it's boring -- then we can spice it up. I can easily define a set of icons for the common types of News items, and we can include images sometimes as appropriate.
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> I still think we should consider a 2-column layout with News the left column very high up. Per earlier e-mail -- probably not try to do that this week.
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>> prototype? I don't see it in the footer or utility navigation as I am updating the test plan. Am I missing an omnipresent link somewhere? If not, I strongly recommend placing a link to a page with all News/Announcements in the footer, utility navigation, or both.
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> Open to discussion - my perspective right now: good to have in footer; don't want News to clutter the the utility nav at the top.
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> ~Shawn
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>> Best,
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>> Charlotte
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