Teaching Headquarters for the Americans with Disabilities Act

08/29/2024

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!

04/17/2023

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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01/06/2023

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! 🙌

12/20/2022

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

07/12/2022

Start making accessible PowerPoints with this quick and simple step.

07/11/2022

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07/08/2022

May the font be with you!

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07/07/2022

Do you know someone who is colorblind? Odds are you do!
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07/06/2022

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

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07/05/2022

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

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