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Providing a Homegrown Accessibility Training Without Reinventing the Wheel

Want to provide accessibility training for content managers on your campus?  On a limited budget?  We will walk through how a homegrown accessibility training was created and rolled out to over 500 content managers across the state of Tennessee and was required.  We will discover topics covered in the first year, how the content was sourced […]

Building Accessible Style Templates in Word for Campus Faculty and Staff

Microsoft Word includes a robust set of tools to allow the creation of accessible documents which can work well for multiple readers and/or their assistive technology. These include correctly using heading styles, accessible table formatting, usable list bullets and numbers as well as adding image alt text. However, most writers in Word do not know […]

Case Study: Creating Accessibility Training for Faculty and Staff

This presentation looks at the steps that went into creating an accessibility training for the University of Rochester, including: This presentation will also include a discussion of how the training was received by attendees, what follow-up was done after the presentation, and recommendations for how to get started on implementing their own training. Attendees will […]