Creating accessible digital content is easier than you might think. The University of Iowa offers live and on-demand trainings options that will help build your skills. By making small changes to your daily habits, you will help the university ensure that all individuals can easily access its digital materials.

Upcoming Training Events

Attend a virtual or in-person event and join your colleagues in learning how to create more accessible content.

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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.

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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Monday, January 12, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.

This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.

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PDF Fixes for Accessibility

Thursday, January 15, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

This training session will teach you about the pitfalls of PDF files and how to replace or remediate them to help make your materials meet digital accessibility standards. We will learn about the tools we have on campus to help with this process and provide a demo on how to fix PDFs and make your documents better.

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On-Demand Training

Learn about digital accessibility at your own pace and dive into topics with on-demand trainings about core concepts and tools you can use.

Digital Accessibility Training

In-person and online training opportunities are just a click away!

Siteimprove for Websites

Siteimprove is a tool that checks websites for accessible content. Learn how it can help ensure your site meets accessibility standards.