Attend Events and View Recordings

Summary

Attend University accessibility events where you can learn more about making digital resources accessible, discuss related topics, and advocate for inclusion.

 

Upcoming Events

Working With Cancer: the Impacts of Accessibility & Inclusion

Fifty percent of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives, and emerging research suggests that a supportive work environment improves health outcomes for people dealing with a serious illness or condition. Drawing on her personal experience with a stage IV cancer diagnosis in 2022, Phoebe Johnson will discuss the impacts an inclusive, equitable, and accessible work environment has had on her health and treatment journey.

Johnson, a senior director of information technology at the University of Minnesota, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in August 2022. She is interested in the ways an intentionally inclusive and accessible workplace can make a difference in the well-being and health of employees.

Date and Time

Presenters

  • Phoebe
    Johnson
    Office of Information Technology

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Registration

Registration for this session is required. Let us know if you are attending. By default, we enable auto-captioning in the webinar. Please let us know what additional accommodations we can provide. Two weeks notice (October 12) will help us to better fulfill requests. This session will be recorded, captioned, and shared with the Google Group.

Event Recordings

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Event

Designing for Neurodiversity, and Avoiding the Neuromyths

Will Soward will discuss designing learning interfaces (such as learning management systems) for users with learning differences and permanent, temporary, or situational disabilities and explore the fundamental principles of designing for neurodiversity.

Presenters

  • Will
    Soward
    Tait Communications

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Designing for Neurodiversity, and Avoiding the Neuromyths (52:16)

Content Formats

  • All Digital Content
  • Course Activities and Materials
  • Websites and Applications
Event

Finalizing Your Learning-Centered Accessible Syllabus

This session links learning-centered course design strategies to specific rhetorical, pedagogical, and accessibility practices for developing a course syllabus for its primary audience: learners. It will incorporate strategies and principles, practices and examples, and reflection and discussion so that participants might reflect on ways to shape their Fall 2023 learning-centered syllabus as a core course document that is accessible, inclusive, and audience-aware.

Presenters

  • Ilene
    Alexander
    Center for Educational Innovation
  • Khaled
    Musa
    Academic Technology Support Services, Office of Information Technology

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Event Recording

Content Formats

  • Course Activities and Materials
Event

Expanding Access and Inclusion in the Testing Environment

This presentation will discuss the scope of disability and address academic ableism, highlight DRC processes, and champion strategies for expanding access and inclusion in a testing environment

Presenters

  • Adam
    Tarshish
    Manager, Testing Center and Access Assistance units
  • Haylee
    Cloutier
    Testing Coordinator, DRC Testing Center

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Expanding Access and Inclusion in the Testing Environment recording (45:18)

Content Formats

  • Course Activities and Materials
Event

Accessibility—Essential to DEI Work

DEI work often focuses on increasing representation, applying equitable hiring processes and policies, and welcoming new voices and perspectives. We are all still working on these goals, but we need to realize that without including accessibility in this work, we fall short. Join us and see why accessibility is essential to the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Presenters

  • Patricia
    Izek
    Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility at the University of Minnesota Libraries

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Accessibility - Essential to DEI Work recording (59:03)

Content Formats

  • All Digital Content
Event

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023

Faculty and staff across the University of Minnesota (UMN) are invited to register for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 18, 2023. In coordination with people and institutions around the globe, join us for a half-day-long online event based on the theme of Amplifying Accessibility.

Presenters

  • Enjie
    Hall
    Director of the UMN Disability Resource Center
  • Lydia X.Z.
    Brown
  • Other presenters

Recording

Video recordings playlist 

Content Formats

  • Course Activities and Materials
  • Documents and PDFs
  • Images, Video, and Audio
  • Spreadsheets
Event

Campus Climate for Students with a Disability or Condition

The presentation will cover results from the most recent Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey, highlighting results from students who have self-identified with a disability or condition. The SERU survey is a comprehensive survey administered to all degree-seeking undergraduates at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.

Presenters

  • Steven
    Hawks
    Office of Undergraduate Education

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Campus Climate for Students with a Disability or Condition recording (41:02)

Additional slides were added to the presentation that reflect the student counts requested from the live audience.

Content Formats

  • Course Activities and Materials
Event

Fundamentals of Disability Accommodations and Inclusive Course Design

Tina Marisam and Donna Johnson of the Office for Equity and Diversity will share information about the new training, “Fundamentals of Disability Accommodations and Inclusive Course Design.” They’ll provide an overview of the course background, development, and enrollment, and also demonstrate one of the modules to highlight the accessibility features. This training is required for all teaching roles at the University, and will be available for everyone else via self-registration.

Presenters

  • Tina
    Marisam
    Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, Office of Equity and Diversity
  • Donna
    Johnson
    Disability Resource Center, University of Minnesota
  • Khaled
    Musa
    Academic Technology Support Services, Office of Information Technology

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Event Recording (50:11)

Content Formats

  • Course Activities and Materials
Event

Real Time Captioning and Media Captioning

This conversation is about captioning accommodations provided by the University of Minnesota's Disability Resource Center, and the difference between real time captioning and media captioning. The session will highlight ways you can engage with the DRC to provide the best service that meets your students needs and things you can prepare to help with the captioning process.

Presenters

  • Paula
    Clark
    Disability Resource Center, University of Minnesota
  • Emily
    Paul
    Disability Resource Center, University of Minnesota
  • Tara
    Schlechter
    Disability Resource Center, University of Minnesota

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Event Recording (54:34)

Content Formats

  • Images, Video, and Audio
Event

Disability Justice

Angela Carter and Katie Loop’s presentation on Academic Ableism in December was so popular, they are both back again this month. During this webinar, participants will be introduced to the history, foundational framework, and principles of Disability Justice, a framework for social justice examining disability and ableism as they relate to other forms of oppression and identity such as race, class, and gender.

Presenters

  • Angela
    Carter
    Minnesota Transform
  • Katie
    Loop
    CEHD America Reads

Sponsors

Accessibillity Ambassadors

Recording

Disability Justice (57:27)

Content Formats

  • All Digital Content
Event

Academic Ableism

If you’re invested in equitable education, attend the Accessibility Ambassadors December webinar presented by Angela M. Carter and Katie Loop. Participants will learn how to identify and challenge the particular ways that ableism shows up in higher education — also known as academic ableism.

Presenters

  • Angela
    Carter
    Critical Disability Studies Collective
  • Katie
    Loop
    University of Minnesota - Duluth

Sponsors

Accessibility Ambassadors

Recording

Academic Ableism (55:05)

Content Formats

  • All Digital Content
  • Course Activities and Materials