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Life’s been a whirlwind 🌪️, and I haven’t had much time to post, despite having lots of ideas 💡 ready to share! But I’m thrilled to share some exciting news—I recently received an on-campus award 🏆 from the Student Affairs Leadership Team. A huge thank you to Carrie Williams, our Director of Disabilities Services, for the nomination 🙏. This recognition for my dedication, work, and (collaborative) research on closed-captioning means so much. Even with a packed schedule, I’m feeling incredibly grateful and motivated to keep pushing forward!

If your course requires textbooks, considering using books that have an electronic version on such platforms like Kindle. This allows students with certain visual impairments the affordance of manipulating the size and brightness of the text and those with certain hearing impairments to have the text read aloud to them. This is ideal for literature-based texts rather than texts with charts, graphs, etc.


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In November, I was invited to speak on a panel about 1st generation college students (from my perspective as both a faculty member and as a former 1st gen student). Surprisingly, I wasn't even the first one to point out the importance of accessibility on 1st gen success. Yay! 🙌

Lunch with my colleague and friend, Dr. Katie Welch, founder of Welch Education. Check out WelchEducation.com

Start making accessible PowerPoints with this quick and simple step.

Hyperlinking in PowerPoint #shorts @teach_ada

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May the font be with you!

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Do you know someone who is colorblind? Odds are you do!
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1 in 12 men are colorblind #shorts @Teach_ADA ...

Closed-captions are necessary for some and useful to everyone.

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Accessibility Tip of the Day #1 - Font size matters.

Accessibility Tip of the Day 1 - Font Sizes #shorts #...

Interesting faculty research from UNT-Dallas by Dr. Marco Shappeck and Dr. Shelby Mille on closed-captioning - watch "Measuring Student Preference of Closed-Captioning Styles in Language Education."

https://youtu.be/uzTRi23iRSw

Measuring Student Preference of Closed-Captioning Styles in Language Education Accurate captions for online multimedia are both required by the Americans with Disabilities Act and supported as a best practice for non-disabled students. ...

Interesting student research from UNT-Dallas on closed-captioning - watch "Accuracy of Automated Closed-Captioning in Online Linguistics Lectures - Preliminary Results."

https://youtu.be/E5Cde3cZTqA

Accuracy of Automated Closed-Captioning in Online Linguistics Lectures - Preliminary Results Student research and preliminary results from LING 4900 (Special Problems in Linguistics) for the annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference 2021.