Spring 2018 Technology Accessibility Workshops
- March 20th, 2018
- in Training, UA11y News
Emerging Technology and Accessibility invites you to enhance your technology accessibility skills by participating in these workshops during the latter half of the Spring 2018 term:
- Texthelp Tools for Reading, Writing, Language Learning, and STEM
This hands-on workshop offers an introduction to the Texthelp tools freely available to all UA students, faculty, and staff: Read&Write, a literacy support solution with tools for reading, writing, research, and studying; EquatIO, an application that lets everyone create mathematical equations, formulas, Desmos graphs, and more on their computer or Chromebook; and Snapverter, a Google Chrome app that converts printed documents and inaccessible digital files into readable PDF files for easy sharing and reading aloud.
Wednesday, March 28, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Introduction to Accessibility Management Platform (AMP)
For all UA users, learn about UA’s Accessibility Management Platform and how it can help evaluate web sites for accessibility.
Friday, March 30, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Accessible Content and Inclusive Learning with Microsoft Office
This demonstration session introduces general principles for creating accessible content with Microsoft Office products and free Microsoft Learning Tools that provide support for reading and writing Office documents.
Tuesday, April 3, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) Office Hours
This open help session is an opportunity to get assistance with your Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) questions.
Friday, April 6, 10:00-11 a.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Creating Accessible Emails
Whether you’re sending a note to just a few contacts or crafting a campaign for broad distribution, it’s important to make sure your email messages are accessible to people with disabilities. This hands-on workshop will cover how to create accessible emails: composing messages, improving image accessibility, and adding accessible tables and lists. Participants will use Microsoft Outlook to create accessible messages, learning practices they can also apply to other email programs and marketing tools such as MailChimp.
Tuesday, April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - How People with Disabilities Access Digital Content
Participants in this session will gain a fuller appreciation of technology accessibility by exploring the user perspective: technologies and methods people with disabilities use to access websites, documents, audio, video, and other digital content, and barriers created by inaccessible design. This session includes demonstrations of assistive technology such as screen readers and magnifiers, alternate input devices, and the accessibility features built into the Mac and Windows operating systems.
Friday, April 13, 10:00-11:00 a.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Introduction to Web Accessibility
The University of Alabama is committed to providing our technology users, including those with disabilities, a functional and accessible technology experience with our web presence and our instructional and emerging technologies. This session will provide an introduction to web accessibility: laws and standards regarding accessibility in higher education, the University’s web accessibility guidelines, common accessibility challenges and solutions, and resources and strategies for creating accessible documents, images, audio, video, and web content.
Wednesday, April 18, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) Office Hours
This open help session is an opportunity to get assistance with your Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) questions.
Friday, April 20, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232 - Creating Accessible Digital Stories with Microsoft Sway
Microsoft Sway is a digital storytelling app that helps you quickly create professional, interactive designs for your images, text, videos and other media; it is also a more accessible alternative than Adobe Spark. This hands-on workshop offers an introduction to Sway with a focus on accessibility. Participants will learn best practices to make their Sways accessible; use the Accessibility Checker to identify and fix potential accessibility issues; and play their finished creations in Accessibility view.
Tuesday, April 24, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in Gordon Palmer Room A232
Registration is requested but not required.
We are also happy to offer private training sessions on these and other accessibility-related topics to members of the University community. Please contact us if we can help with your technology accessibility needs.