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Virtual Accessibility Showcases (19) March 11 – March 13

March 5, 2020

Deque, a digital accessibility tools/services provider, has gone virtual for their annual CSUN accessibility conference presentations. There’s some really interesting sessions scheduled and they are free. https://www.deque.com/csun-atc-2020/

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Library E-Resource Accessibility – Big 10

February 26, 2020

Beginning in 2019 the Big Ten Academic Alliance and Association of Southeastern Research Libraries have funded third-party accessibility evaluations for select vendor e-resources based upon recommendations from the member libraries and the platforms that the majority of the consortia own … Read More

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Landmark Agreements Establish New Model For Online Accessibility In Higher Education And Business

February 19, 2020

Settlement with MIT Follows Similar Agreement with Harvard University to Caption Online Content.

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New UMS “Information and Communications Technology Administrative Practice Letter” (APL)

January 28, 2020

The University of Maine System adopted on January 27, 2020 a “Information and Communications Technology Administrative Practice Letter” (APL). The APL defines terms, roles, responsibilities, and business procedures necessary to ensure realization of equality of opportunities afforded through Information and … Read More

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Open (free) Digital Accessibility Textbook Series

January 24, 2020

For the last few years The Chang School, at Ryerson University, has been developing a series of open courses and open textbooks on various aspects of digital accessibility. The textbooks are based on a series of MOOCs RUN from 2016 … Read More

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Big Ten Academic Alliance and ASERL partner to form Library Accessibility Alliance

January 10, 2020

Jan 07, 2020 The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Big Ten Academic Alliance have created a new name for their recent partnership to advance accessibility for library electronic resources. Now called the “Library Accessibility Alliance” (LAA), the program seeks … Read More

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Site accessibility issue with “search” fixed

January 2, 2020October 5, 2022

I often say that there’s few “completely accessible” technologies. Case in point, this site is built using a WordPress template that is advertised as being “accessible”. However I noticed today that when tabbing (using the tab key on the keyboard) … Read More

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Planning Accessible Large Meetings/Forums

December 18, 2019

Providing forums for discussion and collaboration among employees of various shared identities can enhance a company’s diversity and inclusion efforts… To facilitate interaction amongst members, ERGs often plan a variety of events—both online and in-person. When planning such an event … Read More

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Zoom “chat” window accessibility issue on Zoom’s repair schedule

December 17, 2019October 5, 2022

UMS:IT learned recently that screen-reader and keyboard-dependent users could not access, copy, or follow hyperlinks posted in the “chat” window in Zoom conferencing sessions. The issue prevents those users from visiting web resources posted during a meeting to the chat … Read More

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Harvard Agrees to Captioning-related Accessibility Settlement

December 4, 2019

Harvard Will Change Caption System to Settle Deaf Bias Suit

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