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• Be A Digital Ally

  Upcoming Sessions December 2023: Accessibility for the Rest of Us Imagine that you're a small business owner who just designed your first website. You're pleased with what you've created and are looking forward to all the business your new site will bring in. But then disaster …

  https://knowbility.org/programs/be-a-digital-ally

• A Call for Nonprofits to Improve Web Accessibility

  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 brought about a dramatic shift in how we learn, do business, and even relax. As online-only approaches became the way of life for many, the need to create and maintain accessible experiences became more important. The role of …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2021/a-call-for-nonprofits-to-improve-web-accessibility

• AIR 2022 Rally Checkpoint

  Jay: Hello, good evening, good morning, good afternoon, depending where you are or when you watch this recording that we'll put out for everybody later. But welcome to the Accessibility Internet Rally of 2022. We are at the rally checkpoint. So that means we are officially at …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/air-2022-rally-checkpoint

• Be A Digital Ally: Styles and Style Guides

  Jay McKay: Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Be A Digital Ally. Today, this month for November, we're going to be doing styles and style guides. Welcome. Welcome. We have some slides available for you if you are interested. I'm going to go ahead and put those in the chat again …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/be-a-digital-ally-styles-and-style-guides

• Web Accessibility AMA

  Jay McKay:  Welcome welcome to our Accessibility Office Hours! This is Jessica McKay, or Jay Mckay, the Director of Community Programs with Knowbility and we welcome you to our very special Web Accessibility: Ask Me Anything with Eric Eggert. So we are thrilled to be here. …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2021/web-accessibility-ama

• Rally Rules

  Overview Welcome to AIR! The rules of the road are summarized below to help you make the most of the AIR experience. We expect teams to take full advantage of the trainers, mentors, and resources provided in order to create highly accessible and usable web sites for artists and …

  https://knowbility.org/programs/air/rally-rules

• What is AIR?

  How did AIR begin? The Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR), and Knowbility as an organization, got their start in 1998 when several nonprofits and community groups in Austin began getting together for an annual "web-raising" competition with the goal of building accessible …

  https://knowbility.org/programs/air/what-is-air

• Introduction to EPUB

  November 12, 2020 · 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM CT Demystifying EPUB Heard of EPUBs and want to know more about them? Created EPUBs and want to make them more accessible? Join Lisa Snider for a webinar all about EPUBs! Lisa will cover EPUB basics, EPUB standards and EPUB formats. Lisa …

  https://knowbility.org/services/online-training/epub-intro

• ToolKit Tuesday: Creating Accessible Course Content

  >> Jay McKay: Hello. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to another Toolkit Tuesday. I am Jay McKay. I'm Director of Community Programs here at Knowbility and welcome to Creating Accessible Course Content. We do have some slides for you today. They are available through a …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2023/toolkit-tuesday-creating-accessible-course-content

• Be a Digital Ally: Visual Information Pt. 1

  Be a Digital Ally: Captioning Jessica “Jay” McKay: Hi, everyone. Thank you for coming and joining us for Be A Digital Ally. I am Jay McKay, Director of Community Programs, and we welcome you to another monthly edition of what is becoming our favorite part of the month to be …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/be-a-digital-ally-visual-information-pt-1

• Be a Digital Ally: Your Website's Toolbox – Content Management Systems and What You Need to Know About Them

  Jay McKay: We'll go ahead and get started then. Hello everyone and welcome to Be A Digital Ally again. It's our favorite time of the month. For us, it really is. We have a great time. Today is a really fun one. I'm super excited to talk about it. This topic is very personal to …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/be-a-digital-ally-your-website-s-toolbox-content-management-systems-and-what-you-need-to-know-about-them

• Content Management Systems & What You Need to Know

  (Note: This blog post was updated September 3 after receiving additional information about Joomla! accessibility.) Content Management Systems (CMS) play a big role in determining how accessible a website is. Ensuring you choose a CMS which champions accessibility is an important …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/content-management-systems-what-you-need-to-know

• Transcript: The ADA at 31: How are We Doing? [excerpt]

  Videoclip from a Knowbility Discussion This is a transcript of an excerpt from “The ADA at 31: How Are We doing?” a Clubhouse audio discussion held on July 23, 2021.   Sharron Rush: You know if you're going to be doing a major renovation at any time, then the ADA says, …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2021/transcript-the-ada-at-31-how-are-we-doing-excerpt

• John Slatin AccessU 2024

  John Slatin AccessU May 13-16, 2024 Engage, Empower, Excel! The John Slatin AccessU conference is named after the late Dr. John Slatin, a pioneering leader in web accessibility. John taught at the University of Texas at Austin for 29 years. He was co-Chair of the Web Content …

  https://knowbility.org/programs/accessu-2024

• W3C WAI Interactive Update

  July 23, 2020 · 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM CT Learn about… WCAG 2.2 and the next generation of accessibility guidelines (previously referred to as “Silver”) real-time communications (RTC), virtual or immersive environments (VR, XR), pronunciation, and personalization improving …

  https://knowbility.org/services/online-training/w3c-wai-interactive-update

• Accessibility Checkers – A Good Start, not a Solution

  Modified from the W3C "Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools" image at https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/tools/selecting/ . Knowbility's Be A Digital Ally series covers basic skills and principles of accessible digital design. In this post, Digital Accessibility …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/accessibility-checkers-a-good-start-not-a-solution

• Be a Digital Ally: Accessibility is in Style – Styles & Style Guides

  Knowbility's  Be A Digital Ally  series covers basic skills and principles of accessible digital design. In this post, Digital Accessibility Specialist Melissa Green discusses styles and style guides in advance of our November "Be a Digital Ally" session on the topic, November …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/accessibilityisinstyle-stylesandstyleguides

• BADA: Alternative Text

  Register for Be A Digital Ally Session Jay: Okay, Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us to our first ever Knowbility, “Be a Digital Ally.” And today we are covering the topic of alternative text. All right. So first we want to say thank you and welcome. But thank you really …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/alternative-text

• Be A Digital Ally: How People with Disabilities Access Digital Content

  Melissa Green: Good evening allies and happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Today marks the 12th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day or GAAD. This annual event held every year on the third Thursday in May, aims to get people thinking, talking, and doing, around …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2023/be-a-digital-ally-how-people-with-disabilities-access-digital-content

• Be A Digital Ally: Planning Inclusive Events

  Sharron Rush: I'm Sharon Rush, executive director of Knowbility. Happy to welcome you to this episode of BADA, which is Planning Inclusive Events. We find that we really more and more have to think about that not only in the physical space when we welcome people to places like …

  https://knowbility.org/blog/2023/be-a-digital-ally-planning-inclusive-events