Posts Tagged: accessibility

Acrobat Professional is now available to all faculty and staff – get yours!

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If you find yourself making instructional material PDFs, forms, flyers or publications, be sure to avail yourself of our new campus-wide license for Adobe Acrobat Pro XI. All campus faculty and staff computers are eligible to install the software – find the instructions in the ITSS knowledge base. Things you can do with Acrobat Professional:… Read more »

TILT – Accessible Syllabi – What are the benefits to students?

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An “accessible syllabus” is highly usable by all students including those with disabilities, more easily updated by the faculty member, and is created using best practices and organization with software faculty already commonly use, such as MS Word. Dozens of faculty have attended TLP’s workshop to make their syllabi accessible, and three of those faculty… Read more »

TLP Focus: What Faculty Should Know About the Accessibility Technology Initiative

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See our new web page answering your frequently asked questions: http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/accessibility/faq.shtml Provost Flake announced in December that the short-term goal for our campus is to have all course syllabi accessible to all students. TLP regularly offers a one-hour workshop on how to do this called “Make Your Syllabus Accessible with Microsoft Word”. This past summer,… Read more »

Current and Evolving Accessibility Practices: Practical Advice

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NOW ON ARCHIVE Original Date: October 21, 2008 Title: Current and Evolving Accessibility Practices: Practical Advice from Two Institutions Facilitators: Afsaneh Sharif & Donna Scalzo, Office of Learning Technology, University of British Columbia John Louviere & Neal Legler, Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching, Utah State University Description: Online learning environments hold great promise for expanding… Read more »

Acrobat PDF files – Are Yours Accessible? Learn more…

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Since we’ve set up some high-speed document scanners in the TLP Faculty lab and started using optical-character recognition (OCR) software, we’ve seen a huge increase in the quantity and quality of scanned, accessible Acrobat documents which are being uploaded to Blackboard Vista courses. But many faculty are still using PDF files which lack even the… Read more »