Jean's Calendar

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your MS PowerPoint Documents Accessible

Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
- Conference/Workshop

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Quick Start Workshop: Checking Documents for Accessibility

Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.
- Conference/Workshop

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 1

Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
- Conference/Workshop

- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 2

Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
- Conference/Workshop

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Canvas Courses Accessible

Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
- Conference/Workshop

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Using the Pope Tech Accessibility Tool

Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.
- Conference/Workshop

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Canvas open office hours
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Videos Accessible

Learn the accessibility requirements for videos for your departmental or course videos and audio files. This training will cover video accessibility requirements, designing videos with accessibility in mind, captioning, audio descriptions, and transcripts, as well as what to look for when choosing software or a vendor for in-house or outsourced captioning.
- Conference/Workshop

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Canvas open office hours
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Integrating Audio Description into Presentations and Videos

This hands-on workshop will help you integrate Audio Description (AD) into your workflow, making visual content accessible from the start rather than as a post-production fix. You'll learn to replace vague cues like “As you can see here” with rich, meaningful descriptions that enhance accessibility and reduce technical hurdles.
- Conference/Workshop

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your MS Word Documents Accessible

Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.
- Conference/Workshop

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 1

Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
- Conference/Workshop

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Moodle Courses Accessible

Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.
- Conference/Workshop

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Canvas open office hours
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your MS PowerPoint Documents Accessible

Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
- Conference/Workshop

- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 2

Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
- Conference/Workshop