Accessibility Ambassadors December session: Hands-on practice with alternative text

Presenters Madeleine Rothberg and Claire Houston from the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media will lead a hands-on session about alternative text. They’ll provide an opportunity for attendees to practice describing complex or nuanced images, with discussion and feedback. Please submit any images you would like to share with the group using the Alternative Text Images Google Form.

This presentation is intended for anyone who uses images in web, email, courses, or any other digital environment.

Hands-on practice with alternative text
Thursday, December 12, noon-1 p.m.

Registration for this session is required. Let us know if you are attending. By default, we enable auto-captioning in the webinar. Please let us know what additional accommodations we can provide. Two weeks notice (November 28) will help us to better fulfill requests. This session will be recorded, captioned, and shared with the Google Group.

About Accessibility Ambassadors

Accessibility Ambassadors is a group of University employees from across all campuses who are passionate about making U of M digital resources more accessible online. They bring different skills, strengths, and backgrounds, but all want to create an inclusive and accessible community at the U of M.

They host events to teach, advocate, and discuss digital accessibility topics and strive to be resources for the University community.

To learn about more accessibility-related events at the University of Minnesota, please visit the Office for Digital Accessibility website.

For more information about the Ambassadors, join the Google Group or send an email to: accessibility-ambassadors@umn.edu.