The Digital Accessibility Office’s efforts to create an inclusive digital experience for everyone at UNC-Chapel Hill are chronicled on the website of a global tech company. In September, Siteimprove, a Danish company that provides digital marketing optimization technology, published a … Continued

Now that Brad Held has been leading the Digital Accessibility Office for more than two years, many accessibility-minded staff and faculty members at the University recognize his name. Other Carolina faculty and staff have worked closely with and know Held. … Continued

ITS is now requiring all of its employees to complete digital accessibility training. For this next performance plan cycle that ends March 31, 2022, all ITS employees are asked to complete a 90-minute Digital Accessibility Awareness course provided by the … Continued

A June 10 virtual conference that the Digital Accessibility Office co-organized drew more than 300 attendees from across the country and internationally. The inaugural Getting Started with Digital Accessibility Conference was deemed a success based on attendance, event offerings, and … Continued

The University has a more accessible, robust and reliable WordPress platform now that ITS has finished a massive effort of cleaning up and moving the decade-old WordPress system to the cloud. This was no ordinary migration. It was not a … Continued

The Digital Accessibility Office is the latest University group to move its training registrations to Carolina Talent. As of March 1, permanent faculty and staff can sign up for training by the Digital Accessibility Office via the Learning component of … Continued

ITS Identity Management is releasing an updated version of its Improvadmin platform in mid-January, which includes migrating the code to a modern Java stack. Improvadmin is an interface used by the ITS Service Desk, Information Security Office and Identity Management … Continued

UNC-Chapel Hill has been relying heavily upon the Digital Accessibility Office to support campus community members as they teach, learn and work primarily online amid the pandemic. Early on, the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) team members quickly retooled their operations to … Continued

ITS Teaching & Learning has been at the forefront of the University’s COVID-19 communications from the very beginning. In March, Teaching & Learning collaborated with the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE), the Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services (OASIS), … Continued

Editor’s note: We sat down with Kate Hash, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Customer Experience & Engagement, at least virtually, over Zoom, to ask her how her ITS units have adjusted to serving customers’ needs via remote locations. Q: How has … Continued

As part of its commitment to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment, UNC-Chapel Hill is devoted to making its digital resources and services accessible to all users. A fundamental step toward creating an inclusive digital experience, obviously, is having a … Continued

UNC-Chapel Hill now has a Digital Accessibility Office that will offer training, consulting and assessment services to make digital platforms and materials more accessible at the University. The Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) launched July 1 as a four-person team within … Continued