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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Thursday, October 23, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
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.

Register for event.

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Course Help: Accessibility in ICON

Friday, October 24, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Drop by 2523 University Capitol Centre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 21 for in-person accessibility support. No appointment required. OTLT staff and student instructional technology assistants (SITAs) will be available to:

Introduce you to TidyUP. Use TidyUP to scan ICON course sites for unused files, check for unpublished or unused pages, and easily remove pages you no longer need.

Review your Anthology Ally course report and help you improve your score. Ally provides scores (only...

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Destination PDF: Basic Remediation of PDFs for Accessibility

Friday, October 31, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Virtual

In Destination PDF: Basic Remediation, we use Acrobat Accessibility Checker to identify and interpret accessibility issues in existing PDF documents. Based on the results of the Accessibility Checker, we will use tools and features in Acrobat to remediate a document for improved accessibility. The goal here is to clear issues from the Acrobat Accessibility Checker and measurably improve the accessibility of our most important PDF documents.

Get ready for 90 minutes of practical, hands-on PDF...

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Course Help: Accessibility in ICON

Friday, October 31, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Drop by 2523 University Capitol Centre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 21 for in-person accessibility support. No appointment required. OTLT staff and student instructional technology assistants (SITAs) will be available to:

Introduce you to TidyUP. Use TidyUP to scan ICON course sites for unused files, check for unpublished or unused pages, and easily remove pages you no longer need.

Review your Anthology Ally course report and help you improve your score. Ally provides scores (only...

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Course Help: Accessibility in ICON

Friday, November 7, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Drop by 2523 University Capitol Centre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 21 for in-person accessibility support. No appointment required. OTLT staff and student instructional technology assistants (SITAs) will be available to:

Introduce you to TidyUP. Use TidyUP to scan ICON course sites for unused files, check for unpublished or unused pages, and easily remove pages you no longer need.

Review your Anthology Ally course report and help you improve your score. Ally provides scores (only...

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ICON Day 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025 9:00am to 3:00pm
Grand Ballroom in the Hilton Garden Inn
ICON Day 2025 will take place on Friday, Nov. 14, at the Hilton Garden Inn's Grand Ballroom. Jeffrey Kontio 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.
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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 3:00pm to 4:30pm
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.

Register for event.

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

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Course Help: Accessibility in ICON

Friday, November 21, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Drop by 2523 University Capitol Centre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 21 for in-person accessibility support. No appointment required. OTLT staff and student instructional technology assistants (SITAs) will be available to:

Introduce you to TidyUP. Use TidyUP to scan ICON course sites for unused files, check for unpublished or unused pages, and easily remove pages you no longer need.

Review your Anthology Ally course report and help you improve your score. Ally provides scores (only...

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Try, Explore, Adjust (TEA): Advanced Course Accessibility

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

This course will take the base skills you've learned in Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) and build on that knowledge with the principles of TEA: Try, Explore, Adjust. We'll dig into accessible course design, learn more about the particulars of web and document accessibility standards, and put best practices into use for our courses.

Register to attend.

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