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Use Red Hat’s open source audio player for better audio accessibility on the web

Our open source audio player is an accessible web component that features summary information and attribution, subscription links, robust transcription and theming options. In this session, you will learn about our discovery, design and development processes as well as how to use this web component with your podcasts or other audio files. Presenters Shortcode PST4 […]

Whose responsibility is it anyway? Creating an accessibility education program for employees

From procurement to deployment, accessibility has often been seen as someone in IT or communication’s wheelhouse. Without proper decentralization, no organization will successfully overcome ingrained processes which impede full accessibility compliance. Enter the employee accessibility education program! Having an easy-to-access accessibility wiki has enabled me to slowly decentralize accessibility from one person’s job to many. […]

Building a culture of content accountability

For better or for worse (mostly the latter), distributed authorship models seem to be here to stay in higher ed, along with all of the risks that come with them: “zombie” content, accessibility issues, widely varying voice and tone, and overwhelming content debt, just to name a few. At Roosevelt University, we’ve done our best […]