Digital Accessibility Workshops

The IT Accessibility Group offers workshops on a variety of accessibility topics. Workshops are held throughout the year in the ITS Training Room and other venues on the University of Iowa campus.

Workshop materials, notes, and handouts are available for viewing and download on this site. These materials are designed for educational and training purposes. All workshop materials are living documents, and may change in content or context without notice.

Please contact ITAccessibility@uiowa.edu regarding the use of these materials.

Workshop Materials

Live event captioning for Zoom

A user participates in a Zoom session with real time captions

The IT Accessibility Group offers support for units that wish to provide real-time captions for Zoom meetings. Before requesting captioning support, please review the Zoom Captioning Facts below:

Zoom: Accessibility Practices

Zoom is a web conferencing tool that is widely used for virtual class sessions, online team meetings, and webinars. Zoom offers support for screen reader and keyboard-only users, and most features are generally accessible for people with disabilities.

Best Practices for More Accessible Social Media

Logos for numerous common social media platforms

Social media platforms can present challenges to users with disabilities. Unlabeled images, long strings of text, confusing links, cryptic abbreviations, and uncaptioned videos are just some ways that your content can obscure your message for people with disabilities and users of assistive technologies.

Digital Accessibility: From the Classroom to the Cloud

Logos for numerous instructional, design, productivity, and other software products

As the University repurposes courses, programs, and services for online delivery, we are likely to see an increase in challenges that are directly or indirectly related to digital accessibility issues.

A Guide to Video Captioning

Screenshot of a UI promotional video. Captions say, "This is the place you go to learn to be a writer."

For many people, captions are essential part of experiencing videos. While specific implementations of video captioning may differ, video providers should observe a few key aspects of effective captioning.

Providing Accessible Online Course Materials

Designing or converting course files for online delivery raises some important questions around accessibility. These tips can help you get started with your online course development or migration.

Accessibility Practices in ICON

ICON is the University of Iowa's implementation of the Canvas course management system. Instructors can create pages, assignments, assessments, and other course materials in ICON, and can upload materials in many other formats.

Accessibility Practices in Adobe Acrobat Pro

Adobe Acrobat Pro lets you create PDF documents from a variety of sources. PDFs are easy to distribute, and remain faithful to the design and layout of the original. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you provide more accessible PDF documents for your students and others.

Accessibility Practices in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is one of the most popular applications in the world, widely used to create worksheets, articles, syllabi, and other documents. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you provide more accessible Microsoft Word documents for your students and others.