Accessibility Tags are the heart of PDF accessibility. In this session, we’ll dive deep into the Accessibility Tags panel in Adobe Acrobat for a granular look at semantics, structure, reading order, artifact creation, text alternatives, and more. While we’re at it, we’ll look in on the order and content panels and finally answer the question, “Why does my content disappear when I’m working on my PDF documents?”No two ways about it, this is a challenging topic and more than we can cover in 60...

Accessibility testing can help you to identify and correct accessibility barriers in your websites, documents, and other technologies. In this session, we will look at free tools and techniques you can use to identify and address basic accessibility issues. Participants are invited to follow along as T.M. Weissenberger demos accessibility testing tools for Office documents, PDFs, SiteNow web content, Canvas/ICON content types, and more. This session can help you add a coherent testing strategy...

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.Register for event.The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...

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.Register for event.The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

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.Register for event.The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring the documents and files in your site are usable by all your students. We'll talk about why and how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types as necessary. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.Register to attend.The Office of Teaching...

Join the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology for ICON Day 2025. Jeffrey Kontio, EdD, will deliver the keynote, "What You Do Matters: Designing for Real Access in Real Classrooms," focusing on the role of instructors and instructional designers in creating engaging learning environments while helping to frame accessibility as something that benefits all. Register by Monday, Nov. 3, to attend ICON Day 2025.Kontio is a digital accessibility expert, lecturer in the School of Communication...