The Digital Accessibility Office has added three new consultants who have a wealth of experience advancing accessibility. Lane Fields, Sherose Badruddin and Craig Hayward joined the team last month. They will aid the DAO’s efforts to serve as a resource … Read more
The Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) at UNC-Chapel Hill is co-organizing a free accessibility conference for North Carolinians in higher education. Back for its third year, the Join the Journey conference will be held on June 15, 9 a.m. – 4 … Read more
May 18 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD’s purpose is to “get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion.” GAAD started 12 years ago with a single blog post urging web developers to learn more about … Read more
Chelsea Porter has been named head of the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO), effective today, February 20. Porter first joined the DAO as a digital accessibility consultant in early 2020 and has served as Interim Head of the Digital Accessibility Office … Read more
The rise of new generative AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, has created a lot of buzz. Google and Microsoft announced major changes to their search engines. Economists are predicting shifts in the workforce. And closer to home, colleges and universities are … Read more
If you ask UNC-Chapel Hill student Jessica Walker what she does as an ITS Change Management intern, she’ll tell you it’s “a little bit of everything.” Change Management is the group within ITS that communicates and eases technical transitions for … Read more
The Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) has added to its roster of self-paced training. The on-demand version of Digital Accessibility in Course Design complements the Digital Accessibility Awareness introductory course, introduced as a self-paced course in March. Aimed at instructors who … Read more
The 2022 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, held in Denver in late October, featured two presentations by ITS staff members, Kate Hash, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Customer Experience & Engagement, and Chelsea Porter, interim Head of Digital Accessibility. EDUCASE is “the largest … Read more
Lila Davidson has been a student worker for ITS Communications since March 2022. In this first-person piece, she discusses experiencing her first digital accessibility training with the Digital Accessibility Office, a unit housed within ITS. But first, a little more … Read more
June 16 marked another successful digital accessibility conference co-organized by the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO), a unit of ITS. The NC Higher Ed Accessibility Collaborative, a group of accessibility advocates from UNC system schools, organized the free conference for a … Read more
1. Have fun We use Zoom for more than just meetings — holiday parties, birthdays, happy hours and team building sessions give us opportunities to have fun with our colleagues. In the early days, virtual backgrounds were the only way … Read more
The Digital Accessibility Office at UNC-Chapel Hill is collaborating with the North Carolina Higher Education Digital Accessibility Collaborative to facilitate a free virtual conference on digital accessibility on June 16. The conference, titled Join the Journey, will be held on … Read more
