LCSD1 Leadership Required Website Criteria

Information needs to be

1. Public information 2. Current (unless required by statute) 3. Accurate 4. Relevant to:

  • District mission
  • General public
  • Parents

5. Engaging (drive visitors)\ 6. Emergency notice\ 7. Consistent between schools

These guidelines were created and approved by LCSD1 District Leadership.

Guidelines Notes

Our District has put an emphasis on making sure website content is translatable and ADA compliant. The translatable pies is easily accomplished by using the website blocks provided by our website vendor. This allows the visitors to be able to use the language translate button at the top of every website.

Text/fonts within SchoolBlocks are recommended, when at all possible, remember that graphics are not translatable.

We were recently selected for an Office of Civil Rights website compliance review and are working towards creating and maintaining an ADA compliant website.

  • All documents attached to the website must be ADA compliant
  • PDF is the preferred type of document to attach to the website
  • In the concern for making everything translatable on the website, we have started using Word documents
  • We can continue to use either format as long as the document is ADA compliant
  • Leadership has asked that no personal work email address be listed on our website due to phishing and more types of attacks.
  • All videos must have closed caption or have a transcript. The cc or transcript must be reviewed for content clarity
  • All pictures must have ALT text, on the website and any documents that contain images that are attached to the website must have ALT text
  • Color contrast must meet ADA requirements. You must know how to use a tool to check this.

Check to make sure websites displays properly on a mobile device since most parents and students access your website that way.

Creating an Accessible Website

Laramie County School District 1 is committed to meeting accessibility requirements on its website, attached documents, videos, and several steps are being taken to fulfill that commitment

LCSD1 has adopted a website accessibility policy that establishes minimum standards of web accessibility for individuals with disabilities regarding websites and web pages that are used to conduct LCSD1 business and activities. That includes all web pages served by LCSD1's Content Management System (CMS), as well as all other web pages under the “laramie1.org” domain.

Compliance with the LCSD1's website policy, including the training and use of the accessibility tool, is required of everyone at LCSD1 who develops, maintains and contributes content to the district web pages.