Inclusivity Essentials_ Creating Accessible Websites for Nonprofits .pdf
Webwriting
1. Tips: Writing for the Web
Elaine H. Edwards
News Media/Marketing Coordinator
K-State Research and Extension
elainee@ksu.edu
2. Be like…
Beauty and the Beast
And not like
An annoying salesperson
or a slow-moving tortoise
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/james_dowlinghealey/Gsulcata1.jpg/view.html
Dowling-Healey, James, photographer, Permissions for Use
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
License.
3. Think about the AAAs
• Actions
• Audience
• Attention-getters
5. Helpful Hints
• See handout from K-State Research and
Extension Style Guide
• http://www.communications.ksu.edu/Deskt
opDefault.aspx?tabid=488
– Web Readers are Skimmers
– Links are key
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23. Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Writing for the Web by Elaine Edwards is
licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
United States License. Based on a work
at www.slideshare.net/elainecarol .