Guidelines and specifications

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Conventions

University of Kassel
Name of the institution
Recipient First name Last name
Street House number
Postcode City
Office building:
Street / Room

Always complete as follows: +49 561 804-1111

Link to the title of the target website or document

Avoid link titles such as "You can download here..."

In addition to good texts, photos, graphics and videos are a sign of professionalism. The use of high-quality material is therefore very important.

Binding requirements for photos, graphics and videos

  • Images and graphics must be saved in the corresponding photo folder.
  • To ensure that images and graphics are displayed well on both large and small output devices, they must be uploaded with a width greater than 1,111px and in JPG format (graphics as PNG files).
  • Women and men should appear as often as possible in the images and be displayed equally.
  • Videos should always be uploaded to the video platform "Panopto"(www.uni-kassel.de/go/panopto) first and then integrated into the website (in german Language)
  • For the publication of personal photos, you require the consent of the persons depicted as well as the permission of the author/photographer: Information on the protection of personal data / Information on copyright.
    Declaration of consent (in german Language)
  • All media files must be named with an appropriate file name.
  • Graphics and photos must be provided with an image description (alternative text).

Copyright and the right to one's own image must be observed! And: The accessibility requirements demand that information must never be displayed as an image alone.

Language rules

Building designations

Accessibility

Accessibility

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Data protection

FAQs, current information, documents and forms

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