Create Your Digital Accessibility Action Plan

Whether you are beginning or continuing your journey to create, improve, or remediate accessible content, this session is designed to cut through the confusion and help you define your personalized action plan for digital accessibility. 

Digital accessibility is more than just compliance; it is about ensuring every student can access and engage with your course materials effectively.

Faculty know they need to improve the accessibility of course materials, but can feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content or the technical process. This workshop focuses on practical, achievable steps that help you focus on implementing lasting solutions. 

Participants will leave the session with a plan and clear, actionable next steps for putting digital accessibility into practice.

Session Objectives

• Identify accessibility needs within course materials using a course accessibility report from Anthology Ally.

• Apply remediation techniques to various digital content formats (e.g., documents, presentations) to improve accessibility scores.

• Describe 3 easy fixes for creating or remediating PDF files to improve accessibility identified by Ally. 

• Construct an actionable plan for implementing accessibility improvements with supporting technologies  in your courses.

This session is open to all faculty and instructional staff. No prior accessibility experience needed.

To RSVP for the event, click "Going" in the myUMBC event and be sure to add it to your calendar! Registered participants will also receive a calendar invitation from the event host at least one week before the event.

At least 5 registrations are needed for this session to proceed as scheduled. The session will be recorded if two or more people attend and the link will be distributed to everyone who registered.

JOINING THE SESSION

This webinar will take place in a Google Meet virtual conference room. Enter the webinar up to 15 minutes before the start time. Visit the myUMBC Event post and select the "Join Online Event" button to join the Google Meet session.

Prior to the Event

1. For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Chrome, Brave, or Firefox, preferably the most recent updates to those browsers. Closing any unnecessary browser tabs will help conserve your bandwidth.  

2. If this is your first time joining one of our webinars, please review the requirements to use Google Meet. Learn how to connect your audio & video, change/blur your background, and use reactions. You can also review the accessibility support including live captions.