Responsibilities of publishers
As a Typecase publisher, it's your responsibility to make sure the web content you publish is:
- accessible to all users
- easy to find on the website
- easy to understand and written in plain English
- free of mistakes, including broken links
- formatted correctly
You must also:
- identify and fix problems with any web content that belongs to or is associated with your primary organisation in Typecase
- respond to emails from the Digital Content team and the Digital Supporter if we contact you about web content you're responsible for.
This includes content that you publish but may not have created yourself.
Even if you have publishing access, you must ask someone else to review any changes you make to web content before you or they publish it.
Your access can be denied or removed if you repeatedly disregard the guidance for using Typecase.
Digital accessibility
The government's Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Apps) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations make it a legal requirement for the University to make our websites accessible to Level AA of the internationally recognised Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
The Government Digital Service (GDS) assesses the accessibility of public bodies’ websites, like ours, as defined by the WCAG guidelines.
You should aim to make all your digital content as accessible as possible for people, regardless of their physical, mental, or environmental circumstances.
Who can have publishing access
You can only get publishing access if you're a permanent member of staff.
Each team can have up to two full-time members of staff with publishing access or the equivalent, for example:
- four part-time members of staff
- two part-time and one full-time member of staff
Meeting the criteria for publishing access
Before you consider requesting publishing access, you must have:
- written approval from your manager, as it can lead to additional work
- used Typecase for at least six months (unless you've been hired as a full-time web editor)
- created and edited multiple web pages
- a thorough understanding of:
If you've been hired as a full-time web editor, you can request publishing access within six months of completing Typecase training.
If nobody in your team meets this criteria, email web-support@bath.ac.uk to ask the Digital Content team to review and publish your pages.
Requesting publishing access
To request publishing access, send three or four web pages that you've created or have significantly edited to beta-content@bath.ac.uk
Please tell us:
- if you're a permanent member of staff
- if you work full-time or part-time
- how many people in your team already have publishing access
- when you completed your Typecase training
The Digital Content team will review your pages and provide feedback so you can make changes based on the Typecase manual.
If you meet the criteria, can show you understand the feedback, and we're satisfied with the changes to your content, we should be able to give you publishing access.
If we give you publishing access, we'll continue to check the pages you publish to make sure you're carrying out the responsibilities of a publisher correctly.