Category: Accessibility

Academic Technology, Accessibility, Course Planning, Design Thinking, Good Reads and Articles, Learning, Moodle, Student Engagement, Students, Tips, Universal Design for Learning
a yellow background with chat bubbles, circles, grid-paper globes representing the world wide web in both the foreground and background of various colors, then a widescreen dark blue background with an accessibility symbol in the middle in the negative space of a teal rectangle.

Reflections of an Accessibility Professional at Swarthmore

Jen Moore

As I continue to coach my new colleague, Caroline Larsen, on the intimate details of our scripting and processing of course materials, I have a unique opportunity to reflect on my time as an Accessibility Professional at Swarthmore. Mentoring someone … Continue reading Reflections of an Accessibility Professional at Swarthmore

Academic Technology, Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Banner, Classroom and Conferencing Technologies, Course Planning, Email, Calendaring, & Collaboration Tools, Good Reads and Articles, Learning Spaces, Learning Technology, LinkedIn Learning, Moodle, Tips
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How to Master Essential Tech and Fall Teaching Resources

Jen Moore

Important Information: New Course Content Accessibility Manager, Moving, and Fall Planning Welcome to a comprehensive guide on How to Master Essential Tech and Fall Teaching Resources. Bookmark this page to come back to it regularly for any summer or fall … Continue reading How to Master Essential Tech and Fall Teaching Resources

Academic Technology, Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Design Thinking
A slide titled "Cognitive offloading." On the left it has two bullets with information from a University of Toronto study on the effects of using ChatGPT when writing essays. On the right is an image of brain activity within study participants.

Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ “Beautify” feature

Liz Hogrefe

If you use the Google Suite, you’re no doubt familiar with the daily creep of Gemini and other Google-based AI tools into your documents. In Google Slides, you’re constantly prompted to “beautify” your slide using Nano Banana, Google Gemini’s image-generation … Continue reading Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ “Beautify” feature

Academic Technology, Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Google Apps, Universal Design for Learning
Using AI for alt text, this Gemini web interface showcases the custom accessibility Appropriate text alternatives for images Gem. The sidebar on the left displays navigation options and thumbnails of analyzed images, including graphs and documents. The main content window highlights the title and a purple icon with the letter "A."

Using AI, you, too, can create better alt text!

Jen Moore

Up until late last semester, one of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) subscription services—Gemini—didn’t allow us to share the bots we create. Gemini calls these “Gems”. With the Appropriate text alternatives for images Gem we created using AI, you, too, can … Continue reading Using AI, you, too, can create better alt text!