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