World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) has been the international web standards leader since 1994. As W3C member organization, University of Illinois has been actively contributing to web accessibility standards for the last two decades. Accessibility experts on campus will share their own working group member experience as well as how to utilize various W3C resources in […]
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Inclusive Online Meetings Revisited
Tags: Leslie Sherman, Mark McCarthyReinvent your online meetings to be more inclusive while reducing ‘Zoom Fatigue!’ We will be covering tips, tricks, tools and more for making meetings more accessible for those with and without disabilities.
ARIA: What’s in a Name?
Tags: Keith Hays, Mark McCarthyARIA, or Accessible Rich Internet Applications, can be an overwhelming topic at first. By learning some basics of the standard, as well as some rules and guidelines around its use, you may be able to vastly improve the accessibility of your site or web application. We’ll be discussing some of the basic tenets of ARIA […]
Become a Campus Accessibility Liaison
Tags: Christy Blew, Leslie Sherman, Mark McCarthy, Vance MartinAs campus life and activities became more online this past year, it has become more important for all of us to be accessibility allies to ensure the Electronic IT we support and create are inclusive to those with disabilities. Join us to learn how you can act as a Campus Accessibility Liaison for your unit […]
Accessibility Tools & Resources for IT Pros
Tags: Allison (Al) Payne, Ann Fredricksen, Keith Hays, Mark McCarthyWe have a lot of accessibility tools and resources on this campus – Aira, Otter.ai, ZoomText, JAWS, captioning services, DRES, the IT Accessibility Liaison program, and more. Every IT Pro is likely to run into a situation where they need one or more of these, whether for themselves or their customers. In this series of […]
W3C ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2 for Developers and Evaluators
Tags: Jon Gunderson, Mark McCarthyThe W3C ARIA Authoring practices are designed to help people understand how to create interactive accessible content for the web using the HTML5 and Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) 1.2 standards to meet the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 requirements. Whether you are a developer trying to understand the keyboard requirements for creating […]
Exploring the Next Generation Web Accessibility Evaluation and Inspection Tools
Tags: Jon Gunderson, Mark McCarthy, Nicholas HoytThis birds-of-a-feather session will discuss the current use of web accessibility testing tools and evaluation techniques and explore the requirements and features of the next generation tools. The Accessible IT Group as Disability Resources Education Services (DRES) is starting to work on the next generation of browser-based web accessibility evaluation and inspection tools and we […]