Accessibility Training

Spring 2025 eLearning Accessibility Training & Lab Schedule

  • Please bring your Big Bend laptop to Friday training/lab!
  • Please activate Adobe Acrobat Pro by selecting the Adobe Creative Cloud tile after logging in to MyApps 
  • Attendance is tracked on a spreadsheet which is shared with HR and the deans
  • What support can you expect from the eLearning Coordinator? They will train you:
         o How to remediate your own documents
         o How to create alt-tags for your images
         o How to add captions to your videos in Panopto
         o How to remediate your Powerpoints
         o How to replace pdf journal articles and book scans with library database permalinks
         o And more!

Trainings and Labs are held:

  • Monday and Tuesday Trainings are on Zoom from 6:30 to 7:30pm
  • Friday Trainings are Labs (“work on your course” time) as well. In-person at 9am to 11:00am. Faculty are welcome to work longer in the lab if they wish.
  • Schedule individual session with Geri Hopkins, eLearning Coordinator to work with accessibility issues encountered in Canvas courses.
  • Walk-in support is often, though not always, available (For example, unavailable if the coordinator is covering lunch shifts in the library or involved in a scheduled support session).

Week 1, Friday, April 4

  • Accessibility Checker in Ally & Office 365
  • TidyUp
  • Creating alt-text for Images
  • Whatever help needed for start of Spring Canvas courses

Week 2, Tuesday (Zoom) April 8, no training/lab on Friday

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Accessible Headings
              o Using built-in headings to create clear, hierarchical structures in documents and Canvas.
  • Use of color and fonts, and contrast
  • Making Tables accessible

Week 3, Monday, April 14 (Zoom) and Friday, April 18 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Accessible Videos
          o Transcripts
          o Auto-captioning with Panopto
          o Audio Description

Week 4, Tuesday, April 22 (Zoom) and Friday, April 25 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Crafting Descriptive Hyperlinks
          o Writing meaningful hyperlinks for accessibility across platforms (Canvas, Word, PowerPoint).
  • Making PowerPoints accessible
  • Accessible email

Week 5, Monday, April 28 (Zoom) and Friday, May 2 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Remediating PDFs using Optical Character Recognition, Enhance Scan, Convert to Word
  • Use library database permalinks instead of pdfs. Remediates copyright infringement too.

Week 6, Tuesday, May 5 (Zoom) and Friday, May 9 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Canvas Accessibility

Week 7, Monday, May 12 (Zoom) and May 16 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Crafting Descriptive Hyperlinks
          o Writing meaningful hyperlinks for accessibility across platforms (Canvas, Word, PowerPoint).
  • Accessible email

Week 8, Tuesday, May 20 (Zoom) and Friday, May 23 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Accessible Videos
          o Transcripts
          o Captioning
          o Audio Description

Week 9, Tuesday, May 27 (Zoom) and Friday, May 30 (in person)

Week 10, Monday, June 2 (Zoom) and Friday, June 6 (in person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Accessible Student Content
  • Universal Design

For more information, contact gerih@bigbend.edu

Accessibility Resources and Tools

Templates

Accessible Computer Workstations at BBCC

Screen Reader

SBCTC Accessibility Checklists

Web Accessibility

Accessibility Links
Accessible Technology Concerns
Website Accessibility Concerns

Accessible Technology Team Contact

accessibility@bigbend.edu