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
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
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
The University Office for Diversity and Inclusion launched its redesigned department website on May 5. ITS Digital Services, UNC Creative and SouthStar Strategies LLC collaborated with UODI on the redesign. The UODI, which gained its current name in 2018 and … 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
Kim Vassiliadis, who has worked for ITS for seven years, has gained a new title: Director, Digital Experience & Communications. Effective as of April, Vassiliadis’ new title reflects the new responsibilities she gained with the ITS reorganization in July 2021 … Read more
When the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) launched in 2019, one of its primary goals was to build awareness of digital accessibility across campus. It was a challenge for a small team at a large University — only four staff to … Read more
The Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) now has an online self-paced version of its popular Digital Accessibility Awareness training. The goal of this introductory training is to teach the campus community about digital accessibility and how campus members can apply it … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
