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Accessibility in brief: audio and video     show
This session will focus on accessibility best practices for audio and video content, covering the use of captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions, as well as considerations for on screen visuals.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit for Myplace     show
The Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit is an extension for Myplace that allows class authors to automatically check their class content for common accessibility issues. This session will demonstrate how to use its different features.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: Colour and contrast     show
This session will explore the role of colour and contrast in accessibility, covering the importance of not relying solely on colour to convey information and the contrast requirements for text and graphics to improve readability for all users.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: Content structure     show
This session will cover the importance of structure in accessible digital content, focusing on headings, lists, and tables. Participants will learn the importance of using structure to improve navigation and readability.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: Image alternatives     show
This session will cover the importance of image alternatives, focusing on best practices for writing alt text and tips for describing complex images. Participants will learn how to provide meaningful descriptions to ensure accessibility for users for whom images are unavailable.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: language and readability     show
This session will cover language and readability best practices, focusing on the use of plain language, appropriate handling of acronyms and abbreviations, sensory characteristics, and text formatting, to make content more understandable for your audience.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: Microsoft Office Accessibility Assistant     show
The Microsoft Office Accessibility Assistant is a feature of major Microsoft Office applications that allows you to automatically identify and address common accessibility issues. This session will demonstrate how to use its different features.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: social media content     show
This session will cover best practices for making social media content accessible, focusing on typical features such as hashtags, emojis, mentions, custom fonts, and media accessibility considerations.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in brief: the accessibility tree     show
Web browsers turn webpage elements into an accessibility tree, which is a helpful structure that assistive technologies can use. This session will demonstrate how to use the accessibility tree in modern web browsers to review the accessibility of web content.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: developing accessible web applications     show
This practical session will enable you to create web applications that follow accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: developing accessible web forms     show
This practical session will enable you to create web forms that follow accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: developing accessible websites     show
This practical session will enable you to create websites that follow accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: introduction to accessibility testing     show
This practical session will introduce digital accessibility standards and common digital accessibility testing techniques

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: Microsoft PowerPoint accessibility     show
This session will enable you to create Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that follow accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: Microsoft Word accessibility     show
This practical session will enable you to create Microsoft Word documents that follow accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: Myplace accessibility     show
Myplace is the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE), providing educators with a range of activities, assessments and resources to build their classes. This session provides a practical introduction to creating Myplace content that follows accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Accessibility in practice: TerminalFour accessibility     show
TerminalFour, also known as “T4”, is Strathclyde’s Content Management System for publishing content to the University website. This session provides a practical introduction to creating webpages in T4 that follow accessibility best practices.

Target Audience: Staff


Introduction to Digital Accessibility     show
An introduction to Digital Accessibility

Target Audience: Staff