We’ve added several opportunities to learn about PDF accessibility in April and May. Enhance your ability to create accessible PDFs by participating in these workshops and webinars: Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (webinar) This session covers how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create PDFs that are accessible to people with…
As part of the University of Alabama’s Technology Accessibility Initiative, the Technology Accessibility team administers captioning grants that may be used to and/or transcribe UA-owned video and audio that will be shared on public or campus-wide websites. Rev, the captioning vendor with whom we contract, recently announced these new features. Logged-in UA Rev.com users can…
In Fall 2018, Honors College freshmen from Rick Dowling’s UH 155: Public Service Post-Production course created a video called “10 Ways to Make The University of Alabama More Accessible.” After receiving guidance from the Technology Accessibility team, the class was presented with the challenge of creating a video based on a script we provided. The…
Happy New Year! We’re excited to share some news with you as we start a new year and a new semester. Faculty Resource Center Spring 2019 Workshop Registration is now open! This semester, the Technology Accessibility team will offer workshops and webinars on web accessibility; best practices for creating accessible documents, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, and…
Emerging Technology and Accessibility invites you to enhance your technology accessibility skills by participating in these workshops during the Spring 2019 term: Accessibility Testing with NVDA Learn how to use the free NVDA screen reader to test the accessibility of digital content. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 11:00 a.m. Accessibility Testing with VoiceOver Learn how to use…
We can’t wait to see you at next week’s Accessing Higher Ground Virtual Conference! Sessions from all five days of the conference will be streamed live in A232 and A203 Gordon Palmer Hall, Monday, November 12–Friday, November 16. If you are planning to bring your own device, be sure to check out the instructions for preparing…
Planning to bring your own device? See instructions for preparing your computer for pre-conference workshops and main conference labs. The Faculty Resource Center’s Emerging Technology and Accessibility team is happy to host the Accessing Higher Ground Virtual Conference, and you’re invited! Sessions from all five days of the conference will be streamed live in A232…
Today’s WCAG in a Nutshell workshop has been cancelled. For web accessibility information or assistance, please contact accessibility@ua.edu.
The Introduction to Read&Write for Google Chrome and Introduction to Read&Write for Windows sessions scheduled for Wednesday, October 17 have been cancelled due to presenter travel issues. The sessions will be rescheduled. In the meantime, contact accessibility@ua.edu if you wish to learn more about Read&Write and/or the other Texthelp tools, EquatIO and Snapverter. We are also happy…
Today’s Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) open help session has been cancelled. For AMP assistance, please contact accessibility@ua.edu.
