The Center for Instructional Technology is happy to share that we are piloting Blackboard Ally for LMS during the Spring 2020 semester. Ally helps make digital course content more accessible by automatically providing alternative formats (such as semantic HTML, audio, ePub, and electronic Braille) and providing instructor feedback and guidance on fixing accessibility issues in…
UA users of Texthelp tools are able to access Read&Write, EquatIO, and Snapverter by signing in with a Crimson Mail account (“Sign in with Google”) or a @ua.edu Office 365 account (“Sign in with Microsoft”). Some users previously granted authorization for an email address connected to a different Google or Microsoft account may have lost…
The Center for Instructional Technology 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 and A342 Gordon Palmer Hall, Monday, November 18–Friday, November 22. Drop by for a session or stay for the entire event, and feel free…
We’re compiling our team’s favorite sources for accessibility news and professional development opportunities to add to the collection of Accessibility Resources on our website. Let us know if there are organizations, listservs, social media accounts, etc. you find particularly useful, and we’ll add them to the list. Here are some upcoming accessibility-related learning opportunities:
The Technology Accessibility team invites you to enhance your technology accessibility skills by participating in these workshops and webinars. Starting this semester, we are proud to partner with HR Learning and Development to offer workshop/webinar registration via UA LMS, the new online learning system for faculty and staff. Register for workshops/webinars via the links here, or…
Updated versions of two Texthelp tools, Read&Write and EquatIO, are now available on the OIT website, along with updated installation instructions: Texthelp in the OIT software catalog Texthelp offers a collection of Mac and PC desktop software, Google Chrome apps and extensions, and iOS and Android apps that support reading, writing, language learning and STEM…
The Office of Disability Services and the Center for Instructional Technology’s Technology Accessibility team are happy to host the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) 2019 Virtual Conference, and you’re invited! The conference’s Opening Plenary address and a dozen concurrent sessions and featured presentations will be streamed live in A232 and A342 Gordon Palmer…
The Technology Accessibility team invites you to enhance your technology accessibility skills by participating in these workshops this summer: Accessibility Office Hours and Work Session Bring your accessibility questions or work to improve the accessibility of your digital content. We’re here to help! Thursday, June 27, 2:00 p.m. Thursday, July 25, 2:00 p.m. Advanced PDF…
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…
