The Office of Instructional Technology team can assist faculty and teaching assistants on using Ally on Canvas.
EMAIL: oit@law.gwu.edu
The Instructional Technology Lab team is available to assist faculty and teaching assistants with making course content accessible through one-on-one consultations and workshops.
PHONE: (202) 994-0485
EMAIL: itl@gwu.edu
LOCATION: Gelman Library, lower level
GW provides training and resources to support you in making your course content accessible. Below are virtual training sessions available to assist you in ensuring your content is accessible to all. These trainings can be accessed through your Talent@GW portal.
For assistance accessing the site, please contact the GW IT help desk at 202-994-GWIT (4948) or visit it.gwu.edu to submit a ticket online. For specific questions about Talent@GW training sessions, email tag_learning@gwu.edu.
Accessibility-First Design
Details: Knowing the benefits of an accessibility-first approach enables you to build more useful, resilient, and inclusive products. In this course, accessible design and development consultant David Luhr shows you how to put accessibility first when designing digital experiences. David demonstrates how teams can work together to prioritize and test for accessibility at all stages of product development, saving time and effort with better results. Gain deeper understanding of accessibility with practical examples of how to solve common design challenges. Build tactical skills in accessible content, accessible visual design, and accessibility testing to create successful products that everyone can use.
Practical Accessibility for Designers
Details: Take a deep look at designing and building accessible experiences with expert Chimmy Kalu, including practical examples and exercises to help personalize the learning experience. Chimmy offers a new perspective on accessibility in your designs and explains why prioritizing accessibility is a requirement in today’s world. She defines accessibility and goes over two common accessibility standards, as well as ways to test web accessibility. Chimmy devotes much of the course to deep dives into making websites work for people with vision impairments, D/deaf people, and neurodiverse people. Plus, she shows you some topics you should consider, to ensure that people can use your website, regardless of their mobility status.
Creating Accessible PDFs
Details: Accessibility means making sure your content is available to as many people as possible. When you make your PDFs accessible, it means adding tags, bookmarks, alt text, and other information that makes the files readable to users of assistive technology. It's now much easier to use Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign to create valid, accessible PDF files. In this course, instructor Chad Chelius explains why accessibility is important and what features an accessible PDF should include, before showing you how to make an existing PDF file accessible using tools in Adobe Acrobat. He also mentions where in the WCAG success criterion certain features can be found. Chad covers how to test the accessibility of your PDF with a screen reader, as well as some third-party tools that you can use to speed up the PDF remediation process. He also walks you through three workflows for creating accessible PDFs: one in Word, one in PowerPoint, and one in InDesign.
Advanced Accessible PDFs
Details: Accessible PDF files are files that can be read by a screen reader by users who are visually impaired. While you can’t just push a button to make a PDF accessible, with the tools available in Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, you can make sure that any PDF you create is a valid accessible PDF file. Prioritizing accessibility doesn't mean you can't leverage the powerful tools the PDF format offers, though, and in this course, instructor Chad Chelius outlines techniques that can help you manage complex layouts and add advanced features like PDF forms, PDF/UA compliance, and complex tables, while keeping PDFs accessible and compliant. Chad shows you how to add and adjust PDF tags to optimize the screen-reading experience, make scanned PDFs accessible, examine and repair tables, remediate existing files to meet PDF/UA standards, and more. He also covers advanced issues that come up with Acrobat, InDesign, and Word.
Log into the portal at go.gwu.edu/talentatgw using your GW email address and password.
To find a specific training session, log in, on the home page click on the search bar at the top right enter the Session you wish to virtually attend.
After you search for the session you should see a screen simular to this.
Click on the session you which you want to attend.