Fix-Your-Content Challenge
Welcome to the Global Accessibility Awareness (2023) page here at the University of Mississippi!
Why?
We aim to share accessibility best practices in order to foster inclusive education and an engaging learning environment here at the University of Mississippi, as well as to celebrate the upcoming Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
Who?
If you create and/or share documents, teach a course, or have an interest in accessibility, this is for you!
What?
This will be a series of BYOD (Bring Your Own Document) sessions focused on basic digital document accessibility issues and best practices. Sessions will cover common but simple to fix issues with digital documents. Have something you want to fix? Sign up for one or more sessions below and bring your files.
When? Pick a session!
April 6: Structure, Alt Text, Links, Lists, Tables, Aesthetics
April 13: PDFs
April 20: Structure, Alt Text, Links, Lists, Tables, Aesthetics, PDFs
April 27: PDFs
Times: 8:15 – 9:30 am, 11:00am – 12:15pm (zoom), 2:00 – 3:15 pm
Where?
8:15 – 9:30 am : Weir PC Lab
11:00am – 12:15pm : Zoom
2:00 – 3:15 pm : Jackson Avenue Center, Teal Training Room
Fix Your Content Day (May 4)
Bring your inaccessible digital documents to the Zoom Room (Meeting ID: 7112809321) for support. Come and go as you please between 8:00am – 4:15pm!
Sign Up!
Please use the form below to sign up. A confirmation email will be sent to you once you have signed up, but it is not automatic so please refrain from signing up multiple times back to back. Feel free to sign up even if you can’t stay for an entire session!
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 Sign Up
Registration form for fix your content series leading up to Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023.Questions?
Contact Shevanti Retnam (she/her):
Office: 662-915-1335
Cell: 662-801-7926
Email: seretnam@olemiss.edu
Can’t make it?
Can’t find a session that suits your needs but have digital document accessibility questions? Set up a meeting (virtual or in person) with Shevanti on Calendly!