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What assets are supported?

The Assets portion of the Adobe Experience Manager back end to Ensemble supplies asset management to the CMS. It supports a variety of common digital file types and includes features for metadata and WCAG needs.

This is a locally stored repository that is shared by all sites in Ensemble. Please be aware of that when uploading a large number of assets and publishing them as you may affect the performance of the entire system if done during business hours.

Images

Supported types:

JPEG (.jpeg, .jpg)

  • image and gallery component and page template support
  • alternative text field in asset properties for WCAG compliance

PNG (.png)

  • image and gallery component and page template support
  • transparency supported in image component
  • alternative text field in asset properties for WCAG compliance

GIF (.gif)

  • image and gallery component and page template support
  • transparency supported in image component
  • animation supported in image and list components
  • alternative text field in asset properties for WCAG compliance
Five gentlemen all wearing Hawaiian style shirts. In the center is Yazan Alshawkani holding up the sign that says I matched into Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins
Example JPEG image - Five gentlemen all wearing Hawaiian style shirts. In the center is Yazan Alshawkani holding up the sign that says I matched into Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins

SVG (.svg)

  • display via HTML component
  • <img /> and <svg></svg> methods
  • alternative text or long description manually accommodated for WCAG compliance

All other raster and vector formats

  • display via HTML component
  • <img /> method; others where applicable and valid HTML
  • alternative text or long description manually accommodated for WCAG compliance

Document file types

Supported types:

Office365 (.docx, .doc, .xlsx, .xls, .pptx, .ppt)

  • download and view via Download component or text link inline
  • still requires WCAG consideration as the policy applies to all digital products, not just web/HTML

PDF (.pdf)

  • download and view via Download component or text link inline
  • preferred digital document format
  • still requires WCAG consideration as the policy applies to all digital products, not just web/HTML
Microsoft 365 application icons floating on tiles, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
Microsoft 365 application icons floating on tiles, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams

Audio file types

Supported types:

MP3 (.mp3)

  • media component support
  • WCAG requirements are manually supported

OGG (.ogg)

  • media component support
  • WCAG requirements are manually supported

AAC (.aac)

  • media component support
  • WCAG requirements are manually supported
Digital audio waveform
Digital audio waveform

Video file types

Supported types:

MOV (.mov)

  • media component supports MPEG-4, h.264, AVC format videos with .mov file extensions
  • no caption support; must include transcript with any video

MPEG-4 (.mp4)

  • media component supports MPEG-4, h.264, AVC format videos with .mp4 file extensions
  • no caption support; must include transcript with any video

WebM (.webm)

  • media component supports VP8 and VP9 format videos with .webm file extensions
  • no caption support; must include transcript with any video

Basketball clip, player approaching basket passes to another player for a dunk.

Other digital file types

Supported types:

Plain text (.txt, .csv, .json, .xml, etc.)

  • reference from JavaScript
  • download or view via Download component or text link inline

Archive formats (.zip, .gz)

  • can be stored in the asset system, but download via Download component or text link inline only

Other binary formats (.exe, .bin, .dat, etc.)

  • can be stored in the asset system, but download via Download component or text link inline only
File system view of some binary files
File system view of some binary files

What assets are NOT supported?

This is a much shorter list and is simply any digital file over 200 MB in size. This isn't a hard rule enforced by the system itself, but we will notice large files being uploaded as available drive space declines over time. There are other resources available to accommodate large data and media files that the CMS can interface with to embed or link content into web pages.

Accessibility requirements

These vary by media type, but almost all digital files have ADA accessibility requirements. Most editors and media players handle these requirements to some degree, but there are many that the responsibility falls to the content creator. There are too many to cover with this documentation. There is more information available at the links below.