November 2022 meeting agenda

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes for the coming month.
What’s New in Accessibility Technology: Terrill Thompson of UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will share “What’s New in Accessible Technology”, including an update on the new W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (version 2.2), the recent redesign and reorg of the Accessible Technology website, a new version of the “Accessible University” web accessibility demo site, preliminary findings from our research project on “predictors of web accessibility”, and an update on captioning efforts for UW-affiliated YouTube channels.
Security Short: Peter Giles from the Office of the CISO will share info on OWASP ZAP proxy, a tool for turning a security lens on your web application or site.

October 2022 meeting agenda

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes for the coming month.
Getting the most out of your usability study: Five mistakes to learn from and avoid to live your best usability life! Have you been thinking about running a usability study and don’t know where to start? Looking for ways to include a little more UX in your web life? Listen to some lessons learned along the way from the College of Engineering web team and how usability studies, surveys and data insights have helped them better understand their first-year student audience.
Who is minding the store? Or, what to do with an orphaned CMS website… Do you find that you are responsible for a website that runs on a content management system, but don’t have a technical team to maintain it? In this talk we’ll cover the security implications of this scenario and walk through steps to find help.

Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, we will not be hosting Web Strategy Office Hours this month.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we gear up for the start of the academic year.
Back-to-School Communications: We will get an overview of messaging and toolkits from:
- Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy
- Jacob Kelly, social media digital strategist & community manager
- Genevieve Haas, director of executive communications
Security Short: Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will take a closer look at subdomain takeovers: what they are and how you can make sure they don’t happen to your site.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
Centralizing News on Drupal: Wil Samson and Alex Bonilla from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of their centralized news system designed to empower the department and its divisions through timely and broad publication of articles.
Security Short: Securing your GitHub code repository is an important step in preventing software supply-chain security attacks. In the first of an occasional series on this topic, we’ll start with a basic primer on git and GitHub, explore the UW GitHub service, examine how to manage access in GitHub.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
Updates from the Privacy Office: Ann Nagel, Associate Vice Provost and Institutional Privacy Official, will give an overview of new initiatives at the Privacy Office.
Security Short: For our next Web Security Short, Peter Giles will present a “News Bytes” episode covering a handful of fresh security stories of interest to web developers and content creators.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
UW Events plugin: Teri Shelton, Front End Developer on the Web Strategy team in UMAC, will introduce and demo UW Events, a new WordPress plugin for event marketing. After the presentation, we will have a short interactive feedback session.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
Brand calibration: Courtney Coster, director of brand strategy in UMAC, will share an update on the brand calibration project and provide some milestones of note for this year.
Security short: Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will provide some tips and guidance to help you increase your security (and privacy) when browsing the web.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
Generation Z: Designer Clarita Hinojosa will share findings about this group of prospective students and their families to help inform messaging and design.
Clipboard security tips: We use copy-and-paste every day in our digital world. In this security short, Jeane Marty from the Office of the CISO will look at a couple of clipboard-related tools and tasks, and share some tips on how to use them securely.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will share the latest news and notes from around the UW web.
Using Data in Storytelling: Rebecca Gourley, digital content producer for UW News, will share easy (and free) ways to start incorporating accessible data in your web stories. (Mentioned: Accessible Data Visualization in Tableau)
Security Shorts: Pete Graff from The Office of the CISO will talk about the risks and benefits of using third party code in your applications.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will share the latest news and notes from around the UW web.
Distilling Drupal: Alex Bonilla and Wil Samson from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of a new customized Drupal system designed to empower the editor with a streamlined experience.
Sanitizing user input: In this security short we’ll cover sanitizing user-supplied content, why it is important for the security of your web site, and what tools are available to help keep user input squeaky clean.