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  • Digital Accessibility Tip: Using Formatted Lists
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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…

  • Digital Accessibility Tips
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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…

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    Changes to Kaltura in Canvas – Effective May 21, 2025

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    Effective May 21, 2025, UW System is making two updates to the Kaltura My Media video management integration in Canvas. These changes do not require immediate action from instructors, but they may require some instructors to change their workflows. Removal of “Course Media” Buttons The “Course Media” and “Course Media Settings” buttons, which are located…

  • Digital Accessibility Tip: Reviewing Your Scanned PDFs
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    Digital Accessibility Tip: Reviewing Your Scanned PDFs

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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 the digital accessibility of a scanned PDF and how to…

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    Honoring the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars Participants

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    Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) is a signature program of the Universities of Wisconsin. Each year two instructors from each UW campus are selected to represent their institution. Participants spend one year in professional community, and they design and carry out individual scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that are presented at the…