Website for Youth
Background
Funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities (MTCU), this two year program will enhance the website by updating it to meet usability, accessibility, and standards-compliance guidelines, and will develop new content for a youth employment oriented section that educates youth about employment, apprenticeships, and school-to-work transition options with focus on referring them to local employment centres.
Project Goal
To enhance the website by:
- updating design to meet usability, accessibility, and standards-compliance guidelines,
- developing new content for a youth employment oriented section that refers youth to local employment centres by educating them about
- employment
- apprenticeships
- school-to-work transitions
Project Principles
Our Youth Employment oriented section will be …
- Informative
- providing detailed and relevant information relating to:
- employment
- apprenticeships
- school-to-work transitions
- Original
- creating new content from current and new information and research, that is:
- unique in presentation and/or content
- speaks to the needs and wants of youth
- creating new content from current and new information and research, that is:
- Referral Oriented
- referring youth to their local employment centres to aid them in progressing toward their newly realised goals
- Accessible
- meeting usability, accessibility, and standards compliance guidelines; thus being accessible via a variety of browsers, operating system, assistive technologies, and alternative web access devices
- being written in simple, jargon-free, colloquial language that appeals to, and is understood by youth
- Holistic
- addressing issues indirectly related to youth employment issues by providing information and directing youth to request referrals from their local employment agencies (e.g.: health care, child care, discrimination, youth records, etc.)
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