Accessibility Training

• Please bring your Big Bend laptop to Friday training/lab!
• Install Adobe Acrobat Pro from MyApps for your laptop before attending Accessibility Trainings
• 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:
  • How to remediate your own documents
  • How to create alt-tags for your images
  • How to add captions to your videos in Panopto
  • How to remediate your PowerPoints
  • How to replace pdf journal articles and book scans with library database permalinks
  • And more!
• Visit Creating Accessible Canvas Courses for Quick tutorials

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 for one-on-one accessibility remediation support
• 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, Sept 26

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

Week 2, Tuesday Sept 30 (Zoom) , no training/lab on Friday, Oct 3

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

Week 3, Monday, Oct 6 (Zoom) and No Lab on Friday, October 10 (in person)

• Ally Accessibility Report
• TidyUp
• Accessible Videos
  • Transcripts
  • Auto-captioning with Panopto
  • Audio Description

Week 4, Tuesday, October 14 (Zoom) and Friday, October 17 (in person)

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

Week 5, Monday, Oct 20 (Zoom) and Friday, October 24 (in person)

• Ally Accessibility Report
• TidyUp
• Remediating PDFs using Document properties and Prepare for Accessibility
• Use library database permalinks instead of pdfs. Remediates copyright infringement too.

Week 6, Tuesday, Oct 28 (Zoom) and Friday, October 31 (in person)

• Ally Accessibility Report
• TidyUp
• Document Headings in pdfs using HTML Accessibility Tags
• Headings in Word

Week 7, Monday, Nov 3 (Zoom) and Friday, November 7 (in person)

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

Week 8, Monday, Nov 10 (Zoom) and Friday, Nov 14 (in person)

• Ally Accessibility Report
• TidyUp
• Accessible Videos
  • Transcripts
  • Captioning
  • Audio Description

Week 9, Tuesday, Nov 18 (Zoom) and Friday, Nov 21 (in person)

• Ally Accessibility Report
• TidyUp
• STEM accessibility – updates from WACC 25
• ai
• Complex images
• Creating accessible STEM materials

Week 10, Tuesday, Dec 2 (Zoom) and Friday, Dec 5 (in person)

• Ally Accessibility Report
• TidyUp
• Accessible Student Content
• Universal Design

For more information, contact gerih@bigbend.edu