Tag: digital accessibility
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Digital Accessibility Decision Guide
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Use this guide to decide how to address digital accessibility issues. This is a decision tree—ask these questions to ensure you know whether your digital item needs to be fixed, the most efficient way to fix it, and what to do after you’ve completed your work. Step One: Decide if the item needs to be…
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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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Fall 2025 Events & Programming Overview
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Find all of CATL’s fall events and programming in one place! We already have several events on the calendar with more to come. “Assessment in the Digital Age” Event Series Our theme for the Fall 2025 programming series is “Assessment in the Digital Age,” which will include the three events and book group below. Outlook…
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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…