Communication Blog

This presentation will focus on disability culture and its connection with digital technology.

The Communications Blog is distributed to more than 1,200 University community members, and many posts receive hundreds—sometimes thousands—of views. Write a guest post today!

Get tips on how to create, test, and deliver presentations that are accessible, inclusive, and engaging.

This month we’ll learn about document conversion services from the Disability Resource Center.
 

This month we talk about automated and manual accessibility checking and why overlays are not the solution.

Learn about the impacts of inaccessibility on academic success through survey and health report data from Boynton and discover how people experience disability on campus.

This month we are hosting a multi-presentation session introducing accessibility as a larger concept.

This month we are joined by Amy Kunkel, Ph.D., assistant teaching professor and special education licensure coordinator for the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education and Human Development on the Twin Cities campus.

This month we are joined by Neha Bansal, senior director of application development in the Office of Information Technology, to discuss accessibility in data visualization.

This month we welcome back accessibility ambassador Amanda Ryan, academic technologist at the Institute on Community Integration, to share her knowledge of captioning.