Now Batting: Sherry Fest Module 3 — Creating Readable Text

Now Batting: Sherry Fest Module 3 — Creating Readable Text

Welcome back to the Sherry Fest Accessibility Challenge! Even though our Detroit Tigers are done for the season, the spirit of the game—and the challenge—is still strong. We’re well into the “pennant race” of accessibility, and every completed module...
Sherry Fest Module 2: Navigating the Accessibility Maze

Sherry Fest Module 2: Navigating the Accessibility Maze

Welcome back to the Sherry Fest Accessibility Challenge! We hope you successfully found your way through Module 1: Introduction to Accessibility & ADA Compliance. We had an excellent initial turnout with 27 faculty and staff signing up, but like any good corn...
The Sherry Fest Accessibility Challenge is Here!

The Sherry Fest Accessibility Challenge is Here!

The Sherry Fest Accessibility Challenge kicks off this week and boy do we have some tasty treats in store for you! A total of 27 faculty and staff have signed up for the semester-long challenge, and there’s still time to sign up if you’d like to join us....
New Accessibility Resources for Faculty

New Accessibility Resources for Faculty

To help all of us meet the new requirements of Title II and the ADA (that all digital content in our courses be ADA compliant by April of 2026), we’ve created a new, comprehensive set of accessibility resources. First, we’ve launched the Accessible Course...
New Accessibility Resources for Faculty

Digital Accessibility Quick Tip: Scanned Documents

Scanned text = image = unreadable…oh my! Did you know? Digital scans of physical text are encoded like images and are not readable by screen reading technology. OCR (optical character recognition) converts a scanned document into a format that allows people who...