Digital Accessibility

Instructional Technology and the Division of Information Technology at UMBC offers several resources to faculty and students in support of digital accessibility.

Instructors can use Ally to gauge the accessibility of course content.

  • Receive feedback on the accessibility of content through an Ally accessibility report
  • Improve content accessibility with Ally’s step-by-step instructions
  • Create alternative formats for course content

Students can use Ally to create alternative formats for course materials.

  • Choose the type of file or format that best suits individual student needs

Learn more about Ally

UMBC supports transcription and closed captioning to assure equal access to screencast resources that faculty develop. Panopto and VoiceThread offer automated captioning and these captions can be edited for accuracy. In the event that captions need to be requested, DoIT will provide captions/transcriptions for videos that are less than 15 minutes in length. Faculty may consider breaking longer videos into 10-15 minute chunks to leverage automated captioning features in Panopto or VoiceThread.

Captioning Requests

Please be aware that DoIT is unable to support transcription or closed captioning for materials that are not the intellectual property of the faculty requesting the service.

The following links provide information about accessibility support for technologies used at UMBC:

Other technologies may include:

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