Accessibility Ambassadors: Web Accessibility Checkers Lightning Talks and Q&A
For the month of March, the Accessibility Ambassadors will be hosting two sessions. The first will focus on tools you can use to improve the accessibility of your web content. For the first 30 minutes, this webinar will present, in a lightning talk format, experts on browser extensions WAVE, Silktide and Axe DevTools, along with the desktop application Color Contrast Analyser. The last 30 minutes will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions about these and other accessibility-related tools.
Web Accessibility Checkers Lightning Talks and Q&A
Thursday, March 19, 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 (March 5) 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 the Presenters
Laura Carlson is a web developer and designer with a longstanding focus on web accessibility. She works in Information Technology and Services (ITSS) at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she specializes in accessible web design and development. She is an Invited Expert in the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, helping shape the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which serve as accessibility standards at the University and worldwide.
DM Lavoie is an academic technologist with a digital accessibility focus. They enjoy helping faculty and staff create accessible course content for all learners across campus. DM is able to help content creators create and remediate digital course content utilizing UDOIT, accessibility checkers in Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, and video captioning services.
Neal Sorensen is a new addition to the Office of Digital Accessibility, coming to the University from a 16-year career in disability accommodations and digital accessibility work. As a dyslexic person, Neal practices what they teach and is a passionate advocate for reading disability literacy and public art.
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].