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

Global Accessibility Awareness Day Celebration and Webinar event we're holding Thursday, May 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.As part of this event, we'll be viewing a webinar by Deque, a leading company in digital accessibility spaces. This training is designed for both newcomers and veterans alike, and will:help us learn what digital accessibility is and why it mattersgive us examples of how people with disabilities experience the weboffer information on laws and guidelines that apply to our...

This session offers a step-by-step workflow for creating attractive and accessible Microsoft Word documents. Starting with a blank sheet, we'll look at eight key aspects of accessibility in Microsoft Word. Throughout, we'll use the Microsoft Word Accessibility Checker to make sure we're on track. When we have a finished document, we will learn how to export to a highly accessible PDF suitable for sharing via email, on your website, in your ICON course, and elsewhere.Register for Creating More...

This session offers a step-by-step workflow for creating attractive and accessible PowerPoint presentations. We'll look into six key aspects of PowerPoint accessibility, including one customization you won't want to miss. Throughout, we'll use the Microsoft PowerPoint Accessibility Checker to make sure we're on track. Once we have our accessible slides in order, we will see how to export to a highly accessible PDF suitable for sharing via email, on your website, in your ICON course, and...

Making an inaccessible PDF more accessible can seem like a heavy lift. In this session, we'll explore reliable techniques for remediating PDF documents to make them more accessible for all users. Using Adobe Acrobat Pro and PAC 24, we'll take very inaccessible documents and make them more usable, easier to navigate, and a better addition to your website or ICON course. In the process, we'll also take a realistic look at alternatives to PDF and what you can do when an old document simply can't be...

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...

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...