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Improve Accessibility of Your Digital Files - (In-Person)

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  • Location: QBB Room 114 Start: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 12:00 PM End: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 1:00 PM
Description

Improve Accessibility of Your Digital Files


Audience: Staff, faculty, instructors, and students

Learning Goal: This hands-on workshop presents concrete tips and strategies anyone can use to make different types of digital content more accessible for all users.

After briefly discussing why this is important, we’ll cover ways to check for issues and improve the accessibility of Microsoft Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDF files. You may bring files with you or work on files we’ll have available for this workshop.

Students will be able to identify and fix common problems in a long work document such as a Thesis. 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify accessibility issues 

  • Describe how these issues can affect users 

  • Use built-in accessibility checker in Microsoft and Blackboard (Ally) 

  • Create a Word and PowerPoint document that is accessible to all students 

 Prerequisites: Participants should have a basic working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.