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.
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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool
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
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
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
Learn about digital accessibility at your own pace.
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.
Accessibility 101
The first module in Accessibility 101 presents basic knowledge about digital accessibility at the University of Iowa.
Siteimprove
Siteimprove is a tool that checks websites for accessible content. Learn how it can help ensure your site meets accessibility standards.