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Add Alt Text to Images Inside Your PDFs Using Ally’s Latest Update

Describe PDF images without leaving Blackboard

A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.

chip and RRStor Downtime Scheduled for October 27th

To all chip users, On Tuesday October 27th, the chip cluster will be inaccessible from 0800ET - 1800ET. This maintenance window will be for upgrading our core server infrastructure to improve...

Posted: October 14, 2026, 10:11 AM

REMINDER: HPC SIG User Experience Today

As a continued part of the Shared Infrastructure Governance which advises campus endeavors around research computing, we are pleased to continue the User Experience Committee dedicated to...

Posted: October 14, 2026, 8:56 AM

Mapping Education to Career ROI

How Lumen won the hackUMBC DoIT track

This past September 26 to 27, student developers, designers, and innovators gathered to journey together over a 24-hour period at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for hackUMBC...

Posted: October 13, 2026, 1:00 PM

Lumen display with a glow globe lighting a gold path on a navy background.