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...
A Tool to Make Alt Text for STEM Content Easier!

A Tool to Make Alt Text for STEM Content Easier!

  Trying to make STEM content accessible can be a challenge, especially when it comes to complicated graphs, charts, diagrams, etc. Arizona State University has created a great tool to help with just that. You can upload your image (even if it is hand drawn) and...

Digital Accessibility Quick Tip: Images

When adding images to your materials, it is important to ensure that images that convey important information have appropriate text alternatives or descriptions. Having a description of an image will ensure that they are accessible to everyone. Alternative text (alt...