6 Ways to Make Humanities Content More Accessible
The text matters. So does whether students can reach it.
A student pulls up the assigned primary source the night before class: a scanned nineteenth-century pamphlet, photographed at an angle, half the page lost in shadow. She can make out maybe...
Posted: October 27, 2026, 12:00 PM
Fix Your Content Day: A campus-wide day of course accessibility fixes
November 10th: 1,600 fixes. 160 courses. One day.
Fix Your Content Day is a campus-wide accessibility sprint happening on November 10, 2026. For one day, faculty and staff across UMBC will come together, virtually and in person, to tackle...
Posted: October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM
6 Ways to Make Visual and Creative Media More Accessible
Art can challenge students without creating barriers.
A student opens the image for tomorrow's critique. The assignment asks her to analyze composition, contrast, and scale, but the image description says only, "abstract painting." She knows what...
Posted: October 20, 2026, 4:59 PM
Export Rubrics from Dedicated Hub in Blackboard's October Update
Keep AI conversations in the target language
Down the hall, a colleague teaching another section of the same course asks to borrow the rubric you spent a weekend refining. How do you easily share this rubric in a Blackboard format? Later in...
Posted: October 15, 2026, 3:30 PM
Add Alt Text to Images Inside Your PDFs Using Ally’s Latest Update
Describe PDF images without leaving Blackboard
A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding...
Posted: October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM
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