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Hopkins Guidelines for Web Development

There are no specific Enterprise-wide guidelines regarding the use of color, fonts or graphics. For general suggestions, please refer to the glossary page.

Accessibility

Congress enacted legislation (Section 508) that requires all web sites funded by Federal dollars to be accessible by those with physical handicaps. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/) has guidelines that explain how to make Web content accessible to the widest possible audience (people using different hardware such as PDA, laptops, etc. as well as people with disabilities). You may also use Bobby WorldWide (http://www.cast.org/bobby/) to help identify changes that can be made to your pages so that users with disabilities can more easily use them. For more information select the Section 508 button at the top of this page.

Disclaimers

Disclaimers and any legally related information should be refered to the University or Hospital legal department for approval before being added to a web site. Consider whether your site might need a disclaimer. For an example, see the Johns Hopkins Medicine (http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/disclaimer.html) or School of Public Health (http://www.jhsph.edu/Resources/web_policies) web sites.

Logos

The logo should appear somewhere on every page so that people know that they are still at a JHU site.

Johns Hopkins University

All departmental Web pages should carry the University logo. On home pages or splash pages, it should appear within the upper half of the 600 x 800 pixel screen. The University considers the logo to be a valuable asset which promotes the university and is a consistent, recognizable identity among our various constituencies. Under no circumstance is the logotype to be altered in any way. The University logo consists of the words "Johns Hopkins" above the word "University". Versions of the logo are also available that substitute the word Engineering, or Institutions, or Alumni for the word University. The logotype may be downloaded at http://www.jhu.edu/~design/stat.html.

Please note that the seal is NOT the University logo.

Johns Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/graphicstandards/require.html#logo

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

http://www.jhsph.edu/identity/coreIdentity/logoIntro.shtml

Privacy

All web sites that elicit personal information from visitors must have a privacy statement about what information you collect from your customers and how that information will be used. Please refer to the Privacy Guidelines for more information and sample privacy statements.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of a student's educational records. The law applies to all schools which receive funds under an applicable program of the US Department of Education. For more information select the FERPA button at the top of this page.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has as one of its main purposes the simplification and efficiency of the transmission of health information. But this simplification and efficiency is not to be at the expense of the security and privacy of the health information. The Act itself presents a balanced approach to these various purposes. For more information select the HIPAA button at the top of this page.