Alerts are used Use an alert to notify the public about a change or impact to a City service. For example, to flag a health advisory or notice. Some appropriate examples of when to use a Page Alert, include: facility closures, program changes, unavailability of online applications, and changes in service hoursfacility closure, a suspended program, the outage of an online application.
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Criteria
Only one alert per page.
Hyperlinks may be included as part of the alert text if the content is robust enough to require change is complex and requires a separate page for detailed alert informationlinked page with extensive details. Detail Alert alert pages will be hidden from navigation and only linked to from the Alert box alert message.
Page Alerts should be are limited to text and , necessary hyperlinks , and should not include lists, bolding, italics, headings , in-line or inline images.
Should be limited to Alert copy must be no more than 250 characters.
Alerts should not be used as an alternative to a Highlight highlight.
Only one Alert box per page.
Two Alert messages allowed in one box Two alert messages are allowed within the single alert field with a line break in between. A stop time can be set so the page Alert is automatically removed
Use the built-in alert stop time to automatically remove the alert at a specific time and date/time.