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How to Kill Your PDF (and Get Away With It)

PDFs have been a thorn in your side for a long time. Isn’t it time they get what they’ve got coming? Get a quick review of why PDFs are so, so wrong, covering accessibility and other equity issues, as well as some potential workarounds. Then we’ll go over a case study of Harper College’s multi-year […]

Alphabet soup: enhancing A11y using HTML in your LMS WYSIWYG

If HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in the web browser, what are we doing with all these PDFs in our learning management systems?During this train-the-trainer style session we will explore what HTML is, who it benefits and how instructors can use HTML via the content editor in their LMS […]

Remediating for Accessibility: On-demand and Long-term Remediation at the University of Michigan Libraries

Presenters Bryan Birchmeier — University of Michigan Libraries Description In the Fall of 2020, while many of us were still working remotely, the Accessibility Strategist and Disability Studies Librarian at the University of Michigan Libraries put together a small team to begin offering services to add accessibility features to digital holdings in the libraries’ collections […]