Category: Designing for Access
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Digital Accessibility Toolkit
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Not sure where to start with digital accessibility? Here are some key accessibility resources for UW-Green Bay faculty and staff. Bookmark this post and make it your Digital Accessibility One-Stop Shop! “Essentials of Accessibility for Faculty and Staff” Training Course Self-enroll in this training course to learn more about accessibility at your own pace and explore helpful resources. Although the course contains optional modules based…
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Digital Accessibility Tip: Working with Equations
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Looking to expand your knowledge of digital accessibility and learn quick strategies that you can easily integrate into your workflow? CATL’s blog post series on digital accessibility catalogues some helpful tips and tricks we’ve shared in our Teach Tuesday e-newsletter! In this tip, we’ll discuss how you can convert handwritten equations into digital text with…
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Digital Accessibility Tip: When to Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs
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Optical character recognition, or OCR, is an automated process that turns an image of text into machine-readable characters that can be parsed by technologies like screen readers. OCR is a very important step for making some PDFs accessible, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Knowing where and when to use OCR is important for making…
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Digital Accessibility Tip: Using Formatted Lists
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Looking to expand your knowledge of digital accessibility and learn quick strategies that you can easily integrate into your workflow? CATL’s blog post series on digital accessibility catalogues some helpful tips and tricks we’ve shared in our Teach Tuesday e-newsletter! In this tip, we’ll discuss how to create accessible lists. Lists are an incredibly useful tool…
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Digital Accessibility Tips
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What is Digital Accessibility? Digital accessibility standards provide guidelines for creating content, tools, and technology that anyone can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with, regardless of ability. Users with certain disabilities may rely on assistive technologies, such as screen readers or speech-to-text tools, to interact with digital content. To work properly though, these assistive tools…