Global Accessibility Awareness Week (GAAD) – October 16-19
This is the second year that faculty and staff will have opportunities to take part in a variety of activities (synchronous and asynchronous) focused on digital accessibility and we highlight one below.
GAAD Activity Highlight
Student Disability in Higher Education Academic Impressions Lunch Debrief
Thursday, October 19, Daggett Lounge
Sign-up online
- 11:00am-11:45am – pre-screening of DEI Foundations: Student Disability in Higher Education (optional)
- 11:45am – 1:00pm – Lunch and Debrief Session with Katy Stern, Lesley Levy, and Juli Haugen
In September Katy Stern announced a new resource for professional development called Academic Impressions and linked to a “DEI Foundations: Student Disability in Higher Education” 40-minute video workshop.
Faculty and staff are invited to watch this video workshop (+/- 40 minutes and at your own pace) and then attend a lunch debrief to talk with coworkers about what you learned, what you would add, and more!
If you do not watch the video in advance, it will be shown on a screen in Daggett Lounge before lunch.
Sign-up for the “pre-lunch preview” online.
Other activities for GAAD will include
- Accessibility options when creating digital maps, Aaron Gilbreath
- Creating video captions, Colin Kelley and Paul Benham
- The Ally course accessibility report in Canvas, Jennifer Snow
- Creating accessible banners in Canvas, Jennifer Snow
- Digital Accessibility Policy Discussion, Jen Swanda, Sophaktra Heng
- End of week GAAD Celebration!
- and more!
Information will be in shared in the faculty and staff digest and in CampusGroups.
If you have any questions, contact Juli Haugen or Jennifer Snow in Academic Technology, IT
Global Accessibility Awareness Week Activities are Sponsored by the Accessibility Task Force