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 events

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

Upcoming Events

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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Tuesday, August 11, 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

Thursday, August 13, 2026 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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.
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LaTeX Accessibility with MathJax and Pressbooks

Friday, August 14, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
LaTeX markup language is an efficient and powerful way to prepare mathematical equations and formulae to share with others, but PDF outputs of LaTeX don't meet important accessibility standards. This training will demonstrate how to transform your LaTeX files into HTML, use MathJax to make them more accessible, and share them with others in the Pressbooks platform.
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Equatio for Handwritten Math and Chemistry Accessibility

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Handwriting notes and equations can be a powerful pedagogical tool. However, when designing courses with digital accessibility in mind, handwritten documents can cause real roadblocks. Equatio is a tool that can turn handwritten math and chemistry into screen-readable information as well as other helpful tools for learners and instructors
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PDF Fixes for Accessibility

Thursday, August 20, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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.

On-demand

Learn about digital accessibility at your own pace.

Accessibility 101

The first module in Accessibility 101 presents basic knowledge about digital accessibility at the University of Iowa. 

Self-paced CAFÉ

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) discusses the principles of accessible course design and helps instructors make their ICON course sites accessible to all students.

Siteimprove

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