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USM Accessibility in Action - November 2026 Issue
Repost from the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
November 2026 Issue Brought to you by the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and the USM Digital Accessibility Work Group Supporting neurodivergent students requires more than good...
Posted: November 4, 2026, 1:30 PM
When Good Design Is Invisible: Four UMBC Faculty Share How UDL Supports Student Learning
Small design choices make learning more accessible for all.
Students in Sarah Bass’s chemistry courses who use the course-grounded AI assistant say it feels like talking to their professor. Many of their classmates, though, don’t know the assistant exists...
Posted: November 3, 2026, 2:30 PM
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
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
6 Ways to Make Social Science Content More Accessible
Where evidence lives shouldn't decide who can reach it.
A student opens the assigned dataset the night before discussion, ready to test a hypothesis about voting patterns in urban counties. But the chart won't resize, the color-coded legend is...
Posted: October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM
Feedback Requested: Digital Accessibility Communities of Practice in STEM and Music & Arts
Help inform the resources, tools, strategies & guidance
The University System of Maryland (USM) has launched its Digital Accessibility Communities of Practice in STEM and Music & Arts, bringing faculty together to identify challenges, share...
Posted: October 12, 2026, 9:00 AM
USM Accessibility in Action October 2026 Issue
Repost from the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
Welcome to October! As we continue toward the midpoint of the fall semester, it's a good time to check in on how our courses and communications are working for students and colleagues. This month,...
Posted: October 7, 2026, 1:00 PM
6 Things to Check Before You Share a Table with Students
Good structure makes information easier to navigate.
Imagine you’ve created a table showing your weekly course schedule: dates in the first column, readings in the second, and assignments in the third. It looks organized and easy to scan. But a...
Posted: September 29, 2026, 2:02 PM
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