Office of Information Technology
The Digital Accessibility Badging Program teaches you how to create emails, slide decks, documents, and more in an accessible way, without using code.
In each self-paced online workshop delivered via Training Nub and Canvas, you will learn skills and apply them to your everyday work.
Join the Accessibility Ambassadors for a presentation by Jen Sanders of the Office of Information Technology. Jen will take us deep into the finer points of color contrast and accessibility.
Color contrast may be one of the Seven Core Skills—but there’s more to it than just text. Contrast is also important for logos and images. Jen will discuss these points, as well as helpful tools and resources you can use in your own projects.
Join the Accessibility Ambassadors for a presentation by Christina Goodland and Karen Shapiro of the Office of Information Technology.
With the relaunch of Accessible U coming soon, what better time to learn (or re-learn) about the basics of accessibility? Join us for an overview of the seven (yes, seven!) core skills while using the new Accessible U as a guide.
Join the Accessibility Ambassadors on Thursday, May 28, for a presentation by accessibility ambassador Khaled Musa of Academic Technology and Kristina Cibuzar of LATIS.
The session will cover the Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT) accessibility checker in Canvas.
If you are motivated by accessibility or would like to know more about this tool, this presentation will help you discover common issues in your canvas course and help you address all the issues in an easy overall summary dashboard.
All digital content should all accessible, no matter what type it is or what technology is used to display it. After you learn the accessibility core skills, explore good practices for content presented in different formats.
No matter your role at the University, you can cultivate a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable community for everyone. We encourage you to start small and learn one of the 7 core skills.
Follow our good practices to make both digital visuals and text as accessible as possible to the widest range of users.
Include only meaningful images in your digital products, optimize them for online viewing, and provide contextual information.
Use font type and style, text alignment, white space, and line length to ensure the structure of your digital text matches its meaning.
Structure your digital content with paragraph styles in documents or heading tags in web pages.