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Click it to brick it: How promoting online course accessibility promoted accessibility for all

Since 2019, The Center for Distance Education at Mississippi State University has led multiple efforts to increase awareness of and compliance with WCAG standards for online courses. While our primary efforts were intended to provide information and support to faculty teaching online courses, many of our offerings were attended by faculty teaching either both face-to-face […]

Building Accessible Style Templates in Word for Campus Faculty and Staff

Microsoft Word includes a robust set of tools to allow the creation of accessible documents which can work well for multiple readers and/or their assistive technology. These include correctly using heading styles, accessible table formatting, usable list bullets and numbers as well as adding image alt text. However, most writers in Word do not know […]

I’m a Not a Blind Professional — I Am a Professional Who Is Blind

Alyssa Cheeseman, an ed tech professional who is blind, shares her story about being a college student and now supporting college students across the country who are also blind or have low vision. During this session she will briefly share her experience as a college student and how it has prepared her for her current […]