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Faculty Senate Adds Disability Statement as Required Element for Syllabus

Submitted by ejp10 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:57

On April 24, the Faculty Senate voted to amend Faculty Senate Policy 43-00 to add as a required element a statement for students needing accommodations on how to contact the Office of Disability Services. The new policy is scheduled to read

Web Conference to Feature Two-Day Accessibility Track

Submitted by ejp10 on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 15:36

This year, the annual Web Conference at Penn State, to take place June 11-12, will feature a full track on how to make web content accessible to persons with disabilities. The accessibility track will feature presentations on a wide range of topics ranging from creating accessible web documents and conceptualizing a large-scale accessibility strategy to captioning how-tos and information on improving the accessibility of math and foreign language content.

Upcoming Sessions on Accessible Word/PowerPoint

Submitted by ejp10 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:06

FYI - ITS Training will be conducting two sessions on how to create accessible Word and PowerPoint files. This is good information for both faculty and and staff members wanting to post versions of these files online.

• Date: Tue, March 6, 2012
• Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
• Location: 23 Willard

Register at
https://register4its.psu.edu/Public/ShowDetail.asp?scheduleid=109675
This is a UP only face to face event

• Date: Wed, April 4, 2012
• Time: 12:45-2:00 PM
• Location: ADOBE CONNECT

Register at
https://register4its.psu.edu/Public/ShowDetail.asp?scheduleid=109676

Baseline Accessibility Scans Initiated

Submitted by ejp10 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 15:49

The Accessible Information Technology Committee (AIT), on behalf of the Web Liaisons, will be conducting baseline scans of a sample of official Penn State websites. The Web Liaisons have advised AIT of the most important websites maintained by their unit.

The scans will be completed by February 15, the results of which will be made available to the Web Liaisons. The Web Liaisons will distribute information to their web staff for analysis and planning for remediation.

Pat Besong discusses Captioning Work Flow

Submitted by ejp10 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 17:44

Captioning guru Pat Besong discusses the pros and cons of different captioning options (service vs. in-house) in a TLT news story.

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/about/news/2012/five-questions-with.....pat-beson...

More Information on Creating Accessible PDF Posted

Submitted by ejp10 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 16:13

If you are working with PDF files you may be interested in these new link.

Adobe Webinars at Penn State
* Creating Accessible PDFs in Adobe Acrobat
https://meeting.psu.edu/p8c8isk6716/
(how to repair PDF files)

* Create Accessible PDFs in Adobe In Design
https://meeting.psu.edu/p3dl0e13pd5/
(how to create tagged PDF from Adobe InDesign)

Additional Pages
* Creating Tagged PDFs from Microsoft Word
http://accessibility.psu.edu/microsoftofficepdf

* PDF File Accessibility
http://accessibility.psu.edu/pdf

Join Yammer Group to Get Additional Updates

Submitted by ejp10 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 15:14

If you're a Web developer, you may be interested in joining the Web Liaisons group in Yammer to get additional updates on the progress of various accessibility initiatives and to learn more about the accessibility Web Liaisons program (including a list of contacts).

To learn how to join the Yammer group, read http://accessibility.psu.edu/webliaisons.

Caption Colorado in an Adobe Connect Meeting

Submitted by ejp10 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:17

If you need live captioning during an Adobe Connect meeting, ITS Training has information on how to implement a captioning pod from vendor Caption Colorado.

http://technologytraining.psu.edu/node/706

Website Updated (December, 2011)

Submitted by ejp10 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 18:41

We are happy to announce the first in a series of updates to the Accessibility (or AccessAbility) Web site.

Note that the news blog can now be accessed under the "News Blog" tab or at http://accessibility.psu.edu/category/topic/accessibility

A list of accessibility training and informational events can be accessed under the "Event Calendar" tab.

Please stay tuned for continued improvements

Winterfest Accessibility Events

Submitted by ejp10 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 15:04

The following sessions are available from ITS Training's Winterfest event beginning Jan 3, 2011

1) The Importance of Web Accessibility (via Meeting@PennState powered by Adobe Connect)
2:00-3:00 p.m. (online)
Register at https://register4its.psu.edu/Public/ShowDetail.asp?scheduleid=109582

2) Designing Accessible Websites with Dreamweaver (via Meeting@PennState powered by Adobe Connect)
9:00-11:00 a.m. (online)
Register at https://register4its.psu.edu/Public/ShowDetail.asp?scheduleid=109583

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