Accessibility Ambassadors: Digital Accessibility: Files, Slides, and Documents


We are fast approaching the deadline to meet the new federal standards for digital accessibility. Wondering how to ensure your documents, slide presentations, and teaching materials are ready? In this session, we’ll share:

  • How to create digitally accessible content from the start, such as a course syllabus, handouts, presentation slides, and PDFs
  • How to evaluate the accessibility of your existing files and documents
  • Tips for how to update existing files and documents to make them more accessible

Lyn DeLorme has worked in the field of instructional design and professional development for over 25 years. She is an advocate for digital accessibility practices as essential elements of good document and media design.

Xiong Xy has been working in the field of academic technology and media development for over 15 years. He was engaged in digital accessibility work long before the revised rule was announced. Talk to Xiong about anything related to digital accessibility and inclusion, media development, and Catan!

Digital Accessibility: Files, Slides, and Documents 
Thursday, January 29, noon - 1 p.m. 

Registration for this session is required. Let us know if you are attending. UMN employees are able to earn 200 Wellbeing Points for attending. Please indicate your interest in receiving points during registration, and a voucher code will be emailed to you after the event.

By default, we enable auto-captioning in the webinar. Please let us know what additional accommodations we can provide. Two weeks’ notice (January 15) at z.umn.edu/a11y-zoom will help us to better fulfill requests. This session will be recorded, captioned, and shared with the Google Group.

About Accessibility Ambassadors

Accessibility Ambassadors is a group of University employees from across all campuses who are passionate about making U of M digital resources more accessible online. They bring different skills, strengths, and backgrounds, but all want to create an inclusive and accessible community at the U of M.

They host events to teach, advocate, and discuss digital accessibility topics and strive to be resources for the University community.

To learn about more accessibility-related events at the University of Minnesota, please visit the Office for Digital Accessibility website.

For more information about the Ambassadors, join the Google Group or send an email to: [email protected].

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