Lunch & Learn: 6 Essential Steps, Media
Learn how to implement crucial elements of the six essential steps in your online content. Each week, DIT’s IT Accessibility team and attendees will spend 45 minutes looking at a different topic. All sessions will be held via Zoom from noon until 12:45 p.m.
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Learn how to implement crucial elements of the six essential steps in your online content. Each week, DIT’s IT Accessibility team and attendees will spend 45 minutes looking at a different topic. All sessions will be held via Zoom from noon until 12:45 p.m.
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Learn how to implement crucial elements of the six essential steps in your online content. Each week, DIT’s IT Accessibility team and attendees will spend 45 minutes looking at a different topic. All sessions will be held via Zoom from noon until 12:45 p.m.
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Learn how to implement crucial elements of the six essential steps in your online content. Each week, DIT’s IT Accessibility team and attendees will spend 45 minutes looking at a different topic. All sessions will be held via Zoom from noon until 12:45 p.m.
View Event Details for Lunch & Learn: 6 Essential Steps, Headings & LinksAlly Overview
Please join us for an overview of Ally, the ELMS-Canvas accessibility tool. Topics will include:* Alternative formats of course content available for your students.* Instructor feedback and guidance of accessibility issues in course content.
View Event Details for Ally OverviewSubmit Proposals for the Student IT Grant Program
The Student IT Advisory Committee (ITAC) invites all members of the UMD community, with a special emphasis on students, to participate in the Student IT Grant Program.
Training and Consultation
Six Essential Steps
DIY - Digital Accessibility
The University of Maryland is committed to creating and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive educational and working environment. Consistently completing these six steps when creating online content improves accessibility and gives all members of our community equal access to information and services.
SensusAccess
Document conversion with SensusAccess
SensusAccess is an online document conversion system supporting the transformation of text and image-based file types into different formats. This service is available for free for University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff. Users must have a valid umd.edu email address to access the service.
Ally: An ELMS-Canvas Accessibility Tool
What is Ally?
Ally is an accessibility tool designed to improve usability and accessibility for teaching and learning and is available to all ELMS-Canvas courses at the University of Maryland.
Ally integrates seamlessly with ELMS-Canvas to automatically check course content and files uploaded by instructors for accessibility issues. Using advanced machine learning algorithms, Ally generates alternative formats—such as text that is readable by a screen reader, electronic braille, or audio—that students can download and use to support their learning.