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Category: Digital Accessibility

Posted on November 4, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Digital Systems Inclusive Practice

AccessAbility: Checking your modules accessibility score using Ally’s Accessibility Report

Great news! You can now check the overall accessibility score for your module content in Course Resources (Blackboard). Considering the Accessibility Regulations 2018 which came...

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Posted on October 15, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Inclusive Practice Student Experience

Student-Staff Partnerships Symposium, University of Surrey: A student perspective

By Faye Davies (VP Activities, Union of Students) and Emily Fisher (L6, BSc Forensic Science) Why is a whole conference needed on student/staff collaboration projects...

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Posted on October 14, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Digital Systems Inclusive Practice

NEW: Review your confidence in aspects of inclusion and accessibility

The Jisc Discovery Tool has a new question set on accessibility and inclusion, helping you to reflect on these issues in relation to your job...

Posted on September 6, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Inclusive Practice

AccessAbility: Digital Champion Experience – Mariana Sousa Aguiar

During the last 6 weeks I worked as a Digital Champion for the University. For those who do not know, this role meant that during these 6...

Posted on September 4, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Inclusive Practice

AccessAbility: Digital Champion Experience Owen Corkin

Over the last five weeks, I have updated files across four modules with varying levels of success. In my time, the most common documents flagged by the...

Posted on September 2, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Inclusive Practice

AccessAbility: Digital Champion Project

During last semester CELT asked academic staff to nominate some modules in Course Resources to look at improving their accessibility. As part of this project two student...

Posted on April 29, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Digital Systems Inclusive Practice Staff Development (DELTA) Student Experience

AccessAbility: Adding ALT text to images 

One of the most common issues identified by Ally is that images do not have alternative text associated with them. This text is ‘read’ by...

Posted on April 26, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Digital Systems Inclusive Practice Staff Development (DELTA) Student Experience

AccessAbility: Planning and delivering accessible Blackboard Ultra sessions 

Using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to deliver online sessions with your students can help to bring together students at a distance whilst still enabling them to...

Posted on April 25, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Digital Systems Inclusive Practice Staff Development (DELTA) Student Experience

AccessAbility: Making recordings more inclusive 

Recording teaching content, whether in the classroom or from your desk, and making recordings available to students, can give students the opportunity to re-watch content,...

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Posted on April 24, 2019December 14, 2021 Digital Accessibility Digital Systems Inclusive Practice Media in Learning Student Experience

AccessAbility: Course Overview

Ally are currently working on developing a course overview providing every module area in Course Resources with an overall accessibility score. This will be a...

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