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Feb 5, 2025

Feb 5, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Feb. 5, 2025, is Day 1 of the second annual 100 Days of Accessibility, presented by Accessibility@IOWA. Throughout 100 Days of Accessibility, Accessibility@IOWA hosts and sponsors trainings and workshops to help individuals, work groups, and university departments increase awareness and capacity to support digital accessibility. Whether you're an experienced accessibility advocate or relatively new to the area of accessibility, you're welcome and encouraged to join in this landmark event. O...

Feb 7, 2025

Feb 7, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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As we learn from examining the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, much of digital accessibility hinges on an understanding of four core principles. In a similar sense, a few core skills can help you to attain a practical understanding of accessibility across a spectrum of technologies and content types. Nearly any digital document can be made more accessible simply by applying seven core skills of document design. These skills are simple to learn and understand and better yet, you may alr...

Feb 14, 2025

Feb 14, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Accessibility testing can help you to identify and correct accessibility barriers in your websites, documents, and other technologies. In this session, we will look at free tools and techniques you can use to identify and address basic accessibility issues. Participants are invited to follow along as T.M. Weissenberger demos accessibility testing tools for Office documents, PDFs, SiteNow web content, Canvas/ICON content types, and more. This session can help you add a coherent testing strate...

Feb 21, 2025

Feb 21, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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In June 2020, the University of Iowa adopted Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, Level AA (WCAG) as an institutional standard for conformance with the university's IT Accessibility Policy. The Guidelines are an internationally recognized standard for measuring the accessibility of digital technologies. Originally developed to assess web accessibility, WCAG principles have since been applied to a broad spectrum of technologies and tools including web content, electronic documen...

Mar 7, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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100 Days of Accessibility continues with our popular two-part PDF Accessibility session.  In Part I, our primary focus will be on source documents — documents in Word, PowerPoint, InDesign, and other formats — that we export to create shareable PDF documents. We’ll work with each of these document formats to produce PDF documents that are robust and highly accessible and review practices to avoid when working to create more accessible content. Register for PDF Accessibility, Part I Regis...

Mar 14, 2025

Mar 14, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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100 Days of Accessibility continues with our popular two-part PDF Accessibility session.  In Part II, we will use Acrobat Accessibility Checker to identify accessibility issues in an existing PDF. Then we will apply accessibility and other tools in Acrobat to remediate a document for improved accessibility. After completing a clean accessibility check in Acrobat, we’ll look at the PDF Accessibility Checker, a free utility that tests PDFs against the Matterhorn Protocol and Web Content Acces...