Events

Jul 1, 2026 - Jul 8, 2026

Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Canvas Courses Accessible

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.

Dan Hahn

Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Math Accessible

Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Math Accessible

This hands-on workshop covers what makes digital math accessible for all learners, including major accessible math formats, accessible math tools, structuring workflows to deliver accessible math, and how digital math interacts with platforms like Canvas, Jupyter Notebook, MS Office documents, and webpages. See full description for free software requirements.

Marc Thompson

Quick Start Workshop: Make Your MS Word Documents Accessible

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.

Nancy Hightower

Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 2

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

Marc Thompson

Quick Start Workshop: Make Your MS PowerPoint Documents Accessible

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.

Chrissi Guarnieri