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Faculty/staff: Accessibility workshops in August-September

A Course Accessibility workshop focusing on how to make mediated content accessible will be 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, in the Hemisphere Room (Hale 501). The workshop will be repeated 2-3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in Hale 501 and on Sept. 30 at K-State Salina. Topics covered include:

  • Course Accessibility Standards Policy
  • Common ways to make course content accessible, specifically:
    1. Creating accessible PowerPoint presentations
    2. Converting text images into text files
    3. Adding real text to PDFs
    4. Tagging PDFs
    5. Adding styles to Word documents
    6. Creating transcripts
    7. Purchasing accessible third-party software

Resources available throughout campus will be discussed. To register for the workshop, see the IT training site.

by Rebecca Gould, Information Technology Assistance Center

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