Content & Design Guidelines for NIH Home Page Slides
Acceptable Slides for the NIH home page need to meet one of the following criteria. Slides should be used:
Slides are for topics of broad interest. Announcements of local interest for or for specific audiences should be handled in a targeted fashion. Slides are designed to point to an existing NIH URL. We cannot point to NIH sites residing in non-government domains unless you have an HHS domain name exemption. Slides should not be used to promote specific meetings. Promotion for local meetings of interest to selected audiences is better suited for other areas of our website such as http://www.nih.gov/news/index.html#events and http://calendar.nih.gov. More sources for advertising events are available at http://www.nih.gov/employee/advert.htm. Slides need to meet a high level of quality in terms of graphics and design. They need to be prepared by a professional graphics designer; the text on a slide needs to be limited in length—easy to digest at a glance; content needs to be clear, concise, and jargon-free. The slideshow has been designed to be universally accessible by users and user agents/devices. Development was done using software that had built-in accessibility components. The product was tested using one of the industry-standard screen readers. Efforts have been made to adhere to the Section 508 guidelines for the Web. For more information, please visit Adobe Accessibility Center. Technical Specifications:To add new slides, create new graphics in JPEG format. The images should be 410 pixels wide by 199 pixels high. See figure below. Figure - Sample New Slide – Annotated
The image should be optimized for web display. A link URL should be provided so that when the user clicks on the slide they can be taken to another Web page. This page was last reviewed on September 6, 2007.
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