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  • AEM University - offers role-specific learning paths, where you’ll gain access to a library of content specific to your job role. Whether it’s learning how to create a website, modify content, or manage user permissions – AEM University has you covered!
  • DoIT Report A Problem - Report issues with EXISTING equipment or services that are no longer working or are degraded in quality (something that was working but is now broken). This form should NOT be used to request new hardware/software or services.
  • Google Translation Hub - a self-serve document translation service for organizations that translate a large volume of documents into many different languages. Translation Hub machine translates your documents while preserving their format and layout.
  • Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) 2.0 Standards - The Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) requires Illinois agencies and universities to ensure that their web sites, information systems, and information technologies are accessible to people with disabilities. While the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act already require the State to ensure accessibility, the IITAA establishes specific standards and encourages the State to address accessibility proactively.
  • Microsoft Teams WCM RoundTable - Link to the Web Content Management RoundTable team in Microsoft Teams. This team includes channels that address Accessibility Compliance, Adobe Analytics, AEM Platform and Service Notices. This hub aims to keep Illinois AEM Authors in the loop of any changes, updates, or upcoming outages to the platform.
  • WCM Authoring Guide - The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Web Author Guide is your trusted source for all things AEM, DoIT’s new content management platform.
External Resources
  • Adobe Experience League - Join innovators creating experiences customers love with Adobe enterprise products. Access a vast library of learning content and courses, get personalized recommendations, and connect with a vibrant community of fellow learners.
  • Adobe Stock - Explore diverse collections of incredible, high-resolution, royalty-free, stock assets from Adobe Stock.
  • Akamai Edge Redirector Cloudlet Information - Helps more efficiently manage large numbers of redirects. By executing redirects at the ​Akamai​ edge, you can reduce round trips to the origin and offload hits from your origin infrastructure.
  • Elastic Search - a distributed, free and open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. Elasticsearch is built on Apache Lucene and was first released in 2010 by Elasticsearch N.V. (now known as Elastic). Elasticsearch is known for its simple REST APIs, distributed nature, speed, and scalability.
  • Siteimprove Training - Training courses provided by Siteimprove. Training provided covers a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to Accessibility, Analytics, SEO, and Website Performance. Certifications, Learning Paths, and Live Training, among other content, are also available.
  • Weglot Training - Offers fast-track training to understand how to use Weglot and kickstart your website translation project the right way! Discover all the key steps to get the most out of Weglot and customize your website translation project to meet your needs. Takes about 25 minutes to complete.

Popular Browser Plugins

Accessibility Insights

Accessibility Insights for Web is an extension for Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge that helps developers find and fix accessibility issues in web apps and sites.
AEM+

An extension to improve AEM authoring productivity. AEM is cool, but for heavy users, such as developers and testers, the experience is sometimes not perfect. This extension attempts to make up for these shortcomings to increase the speed of development and testing and enhance the user experience.
AEM Navigator

Useful for AEM developers for easy navigation. Useful for Touch UI.

AEM Navigator is meant for AEM developers to ease them to navigate through various consoles easily and way faster.
axe DevTools - Web Accessibility Testing

Find and fix more accessibility issues during website development with axe DevTools.
The free axe DevTools browser extension is a fast, lightweight, yet powerful testing tool driven by the world’s most trusted accessibility testing engine, axe-core, developed by Deque.
FireShot

Useful for AEM developers for easy navigation. Useful for Touch UI.

AEM Navigator is meant for AEM developers to ease them to navigate through various consoles easily and way faster.
Siteimprove

Measure of the quality and potential impact of a site's digital presence. Instantly see:

  • how a web page lives up to quality standards
  • how discoverable it is for search engines
  • how well it performs with regards to accessibility standards
WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Identify many Accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.

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