Recorded Video Sessions

Presenters: Kate Percival and Michele Thornton

As much of our lives continue to move online and into virtual environments, understanding digital accessibility is more critical than ever. During this challenge, you’ll receive step-by-step guidance on how making minor changes to your digital documents can have a big impact on accessibility.

10-Day Accessibility Challenge Kick-Off recording

Presenters: Accessibility initiative team members. Facilitated by Rebecca Mushtare.

This session will introduce you to the digital accessibility initiative at SUNY Oswego, including resources available to you and the colleagues you can reach out to for consultation and support as you make your own digital corner of SUNY Oswego more accessible.

Accessibility at Oswego recording

Presenters: Rebecca Mushtare and Kate Percival

Not sure how accessible your digital materials are? This session will walk you through the basics of using accessibility checkers you have available to you in order to improve the accessibility of materials you share with others. Tools covered will include: Grackle (Google Suite), Microsoft Office , Acrobat Professional, and Blackboard Ally.

Accessibility Checkers recording

Presenter:  Michele Thornton

Not certain where to start with accessibility or what it’s all about? Have some questions about the basic terminology, principles and foundations behind why SUNY Oswego has made such a strong commitment to building a campus culture of Accessibility?  For this session, please first read “From Accommodation to Accessibility: Creating a Culture of Inclusivity.” and then join us for our afternoon’s discussion group to share your reactions and key takeaways.

Accessibility Discussion Group recording

Presenters: Accessibility Fellows and Michele Thornton

SUNY Oswego is in its third cycle of the innovative Faculty Accessibility Fellow program. In this panel discussion, we describe the fellowship application process, expectations, goals, and outcomes to date. Current fellows share their perspectives on the first semester of their fellowship year, experiences in building more accessible course materials, and their goals moving forward.

Accessibility Fellows Program recording

Presenters: Kate Percival and Michele Thornton

This session will explain how to incorporate basic accessibility principles into emails. Learn how to boost your email accessibility quickly and easily by using techniques such as chunking, using lists, embedding links, writing in clear language, and more.

Accessible Emails recording

Presenter: Sarah Hanusch

It is a challenge to create documents in LaTeX that meet the accessibility principles. One package that can improve the accessibility of your LaTeX documents is accessibility.sty. In this session, I will help you download the style file, and demonstrate the commands provided by the package. 

The Accessibility Package in LaTeX recording

Presenter: Donna Greene

SUNY Oswego Accessibility Fellows have spent the past year learning key principles, honing skills, testing out new software and working to create a more accessible learning environment for all students. In this session, one 2020 fellow shares what she felt was the most important takeaway for her - being open to the ideas and importance of accessibility.

Being open to Accessibility recording

Presenter: Michele Thornton

Participating in a 10-day challenge is a great way to begin your journey of learning about accessibility.  In this session we will discuss additional pathways you can take in the future to build on the skills you’ve learned during the Winter Break-Outs.  We will circle back to review campus resources and highlight upcoming opportunities for you to contribute to building a campus culture of accessibility at Oswego.

Building a Campus Culture of Accessibility recording

Presenter: Dan Laird

Would you like a quick and easy way to apply captions to videos for your courses? Panopto features a very easy to use interface that allows you to upload any video content to their system, which then processes and applies captions to the video. Come join us and we will show you the simple process and how to edit your captions after they have been applied.

Captions & Previously Recorded Content/Panopto recording

Presenters: Rebecca Mushtare and  Michele Thornton

Color can be a really effective and useful tool for communication but also can’t be the only differentiating characteristic. This session will walk through how to use color in combination with other visual indicators to make effective charts, graphs and other visual materials.

Color and Contrast recording

Presenters: Michele Thornton and Serenity Sutherland

This session will focus on creating useful and highly readable and accessible hyperlinks in any document you create or share from email, to Google Docs, to PowerPoints and beyond.

Descriptive Hyperlinks recording

Presenter: Steve Abraham

Are you familiar with Panopto and how to use it? This video and captioning software is a valuable aid in creating engaging content for online and hybrid courses. In this session, you will learn about the different associated workflows can help make your courses more accessible.

Faculty Work Flows - Panopto recording

Presenter: Carol Willard

2020 has had us all spending quite a bit of time on Zoom. Zoom is a great way to connect with students and enhance the accessibility of your virtual classroom. During this session, we will discuss best practices and workflows for efficiently and effectively incorporating it into online and hybrid courses.

Faculty Work Flows - Zoom recording

Presenter: Casey Raymond

Mathematical equations need to be usable by assistive technologies and MathML is one method to achieve content accessible to all. The MathML can be the text equivalent or serve as the code to create the equation in a Web browser. This session will show a few techniques to create MathML

Formulas/Math Equations recording

Presenter: Michele Thornton

Headings and styles, two features built into Google Docs and Microsoft Word that are easy to use, help you to organize documents, make them more readable, and much more accessible.

Google Docs/ Word/Structured Content recording

Presenter: Kate Percival

Using PDFs to share articles or other course materials with students? This workshop will introduce basic techniques you can use to minimize barriers for students that you may not be aware they are facing.

Improving PDF Accessibility recording

Presenter: Rebecca Mushtare

The focus of this session will be a series of best practices for hosting virtual (synchronous) meetings, classes and events. We’ll walk through tips related to planning, running and following up after a synchronous session.

Inclusive Virtual Meetings and Events recording

Presenters: Michele Thornton and Rebecca Mushtare

SUNY Oswego Accessibility Fellows have spent the past year learning key principles, honing skills, testing out new software and working to create a more accessible learning environment for all students. In this session, one 2019 fellow shares what she felt was the most important takeaway for her - how incorporating accessibility into her research agenda can amplify the impact and reach of the fellowship.

Incorporating Accessibility into your Research Agenda recording

Presenter: Kathleen Blake

SUNY Oswego Accessibility Fellows have spent the past year learning key principles, honing skills, testing out new software and working to create a more accessible learning environment for all students. In this session, one 2020 fellow shares what she felt was the most important takeaway for her - making the unexpected, but simple changes that can have a big impact.

Key Takeaways from Accessibility Fellows recording

Presenter: Facilitated by Michele Thornton

This session will introduce you to some of the barriers students with disabilities face and some of the technologies they rely on to succeed.

Student Panel - screen reader demo/assistive tech recording

Presenter: Kate Percival

Join us for some quick tips on how to make tables and lists in your digital documents more accessible.

Deeper Dive - Tables/Lists recording

Presenter: Kate Percival

Learn how to make images, pictures, figures, and other non-text elements usable by assistive technology.

Text Equivalents recording

Presenter: Carol Willard

This session will introduce you to curriculum design principles that can help you make your courses work for all learners. Topics include motivation, autonomy , self regulation, multiple means of representation and expression, monitoring progress, etc.

UDL: Universal Design for Learning recording

Presenters: Rebecca Mushtare and Amy Fisk (SUNY Geneseo)

This session will introduce the Universal Design for Learning framework and how implementing that framework supports students generally, and students with disabilities specifically. During this session, we’ll share excerpts from interviews conducted with SUNY Oswego and SUNY Geneseo students with disabilities collected during 2020 about the impact remote and online learning has had on their academic experience.

Universal Design for Learning & Our Students recording

Presenters: Steve Abraham & Michele Thornton

Teaching online or sharing campus-related materials electronically? This session will walk you through 5 accessibility practices you’ll want to keep in mind as you create and share materials.

What is Accessibility? recording

Presenter: Michele Thornton

This session will provide an overview of the accessibility tool, Ally, that is built into Blackboard. Ally can tell you how accessible your course materials are and how to make them more accessible.

What is Blackboard Ally? recording