Digital Accessibility Conference 2024

Following the huge success of last year’s Digital Accessibility conference, we’re pleased to announce that University of Nottingham Libraries will be hosting the conference again on Wednesday 26 June 2024.   This year’s conference, Transforming the Culture, will be held online and will bring together practitioners from right across the sector for a day of talks, discussions and …

The Digital Accessibility Journey

In the post below, Julian Tenney, Learning Content Team Leader, reflects on the journey of Digital Accessibility at the University of Nottingham over the past year. Digital accessibility has been a major focus for the University this year, and as the festive season rolls in, it’s a good time to reflect on our achievements. We …

Faculty of Science Takeover: HTML Notebooks in Mathematics

Throughout the 2023-4 Academic Year we are running a new feature on the LT blog, a Faculty Takeover month! Each alternate month through the year we will feature posts from a different faculty at the University, with posts every Friday highlighting interesting work related to technology in teaching and learning and showcasing unique projects from …

Faculty of Science Takeover: Digital Accessibility

Throughout the 2023-4 Academic Year we are running a new feature on the LT blog, a Faculty Takeover month! Each alternate month through the year we will feature posts from a different faculty at the University, with posts every Friday highlighting interesting work related to technology in teaching and learning and showcasing unique projects from …

Accessible video for teaching

Many thanks and credit to Dr. Chris Ward (Digital Accessibility Consultant), Nicholas Cameron (Learning Technology Officer) and the Learning Technology Team for the blog guidance. The recording platform Use Echo360 (Engage) where possible for teaching content because this platform offers all the features and capabilities for lecture recording and includes a high level of technical …

Accessible PowerPoint Presentations

Accessible documents ensure everyone, including people with disabilities, can access and understand the content. This promotes inclusivity and equal access to information for all. Some helpful tips to create accessible PowerPoint presentations are included below, but you can find lots more detail on the Nottingham Accessibility Practices page (NAPS). The advice and guidance below is based …

Accessible Word Documents

Many thanks and credit to Dr. Chris Ward (Digital Accessibility Consultant) and the Learning Technology Team for the blog guidance Accessible documents ensure everyone, including people with disabilities, can access and understand the content. This promotes inclusivity and equal access to information for all. Some helpful tips to create accessible Word documents are included below …

Digital Accessibility Workshops Running Throughout September 2023

Throughout September colleagues in Learning Technologies will be running a series of training workshops on digital accessibility. These workshops will be led by the Learning Technology Consultants for each of the five faculties at the University, leading up to the start of term. These training sessions align with the launch of the Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit …

Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit

Guest author: Dr Christopher Ward (Digital Accessibility Consultant) What is the Brickfield Accessibility toolkit? A new tool for accessibility is now available to editing teachers in Moodle at the University of Nottingham. The Brickfields Accessibility+ Toolkit is an extensive accessibility checker that will help recognise and fix issues with accessibility in Moodle. It only operates …

The Digital Accessibility Conference: Sessions Review Part 3

On the 29th of June 2023, Learning Technology hosted a Digital Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham. In this series of blog posts, we are reflecting on the conference and sharing reviews written by members of the team who chaired panels during the 2023 conference. In this final post in the series, Sally Hanford …