Training — Accessibility

BBCC Accessibility Training Schedule: Winter 2025

  • Please bring your laptop
  • If you don’t have it installed yet, request Adobe Acrobat Pro from Big Bend Technology before attending Accessibility Trainings

Mondays and Tuesdays on Zoom at 6:30pm
Fridays in-person at 9am-11:30am

Week 1- Friday, January 3

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp

Week 2 – Tuesday (Zoom) January 7

  • Accessibility Checker in Ally & Office 365
  • TidyUp
  • Alt-tags for Images

Week 3, Monday, January 13 (Zoom) and Friday, Jan 17 (in-person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Remediating PDFs using Optical Character Recognition, Enhance Scan, Convert to Word

Week 4, Tuesday 21 (Zoom) and Friday, Jan 24 (in-person)

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

Week 5 Monday, Jan 27 (Zoom) and Friday the 31st (in-person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Making Powerpoints accessible

Week 6 Tuesday, February 4 (Zoom) and Friday the7th (in-person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • Canvas Accessibility

Week 7 Monday, February 10 (Zoom)

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

Week 8 Tuesday, February 18 (Zoom) and Friday the 21st (in-person)

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

Week 9 Monday, February 24 (Zoom) and Friday the 28th (in-person)

  • Accessibility Checker
  • TidyUp
  • STEM accessibility – updates from WACC 25

Week 10 Tuesday, March 3 (Zoom) and Friday the 7th (in-person)

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

SBCTC Accessibility Training:

SBCTC’s Accessibility Center hosts resources and information to help advance web and IT accessibility awareness, understanding, and implementation. We’re highlighting the following sections, but there’s more to explore as well!

SBCTC’s Accessibility Micro-Courses

SBCTC offers a variety of accessibility-related micro-courses. Each course is approximately 3 hours in length and focuses on particular skills and/or content creation programs. Current micro-courses include: Understanding Accessibility, Accessible Design Concepts, Universal Design, Accessible Word Documents, Accessible PPT, Email Accessibility, Accessible PDFs, Canvas Accessibility. Participants are awarded with digital badges upon completion of each micro-course. Participants who complete five micro-courses (15 hours) will also receive a certificate from SBCTC.

Registering in the accessibility micro-courses will give participants ongoing access to the courses. There are no course start/stop dates. Users can remove themselves from the Canvas course at any point.

To preview the lessons please visit SBCTC’s Library of Accessibility Resources, or register for the series.

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