Tag Archive: Accessibility
UC IT Blogger
March 20, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAccessibility, Healthcare, innovation, UC Health, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
Children with severe disabilities, serious cognitive impairments and medically complex situations require more specialized health care during their lifetimes. But establishing a consistent way to identify their overall health needs and measure progress in meeting those needs has been an…
Read more about For Children with Complex Medical Situations, A New Roadmap for Improving Health
UC IT Blogger
March 20, 2019
All ArticlesAccessibility, Cal State Northridge, CSUN, Events, Lucy Greco, Travis Lee, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UCB, UCLA
By Yvonne Tevis.
Just a few blocks from Disneyland, the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference – the largest annual accessibility conference in the country – concluded its 34th year last week. Hosted by Cal State Northridge, the conference attracts a global…
Read more about UC Experts Present at Assistive Technology Conference
UC IT Blogger
February 6, 2019
All ArticlesAccessibility, innovation, UCOP, webinar, Yvonne Tevis
By Yvonne Tevis.
Imagine if you were blocked from using the Internet – no websites, no shopping, no apps, no Uber… How frustrating would that be? How would you get anything done?
That’s the experience people with disabilities can have….
Read more about What Can You Do for Accessibility? Take the New Online Training
UC IT Blogger
November 14, 2018
All ArticlesAccessibility, Closed captioning, Todd McGill, UC Irvine, UCI, Youtube
By Todd McGill. Released via GitHub on July 27, 2018, the YouTube Caption Audit is a distributable web application that reports uncaptioned public videos for a given YouTube channel.
Surprisingly, this is not something that can be done within the…
Read more about YouTube Caption Audit Tool Now Available from UCI
UC IT Blogger
September 26, 2018
All ArticlesAccessibility, electronic accessibility committee, Siteimprove, Yvonne Tevis
By Yvonne Tevis. Website accessibility just got a bit easier at UC.
You probably already know that everything we put online – from websites, to PDFs, to images – needs to be accessible. That means it must be designed so people…
Read more about UC Gets Systemwide Website Accessibility Checker
UC IT Blogger
August 8, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAccessibility, Judy Olson, Savannah Gray, UC Irvine, UCI, Veronica Newhart
By Savannah Gray. Being a student is tough. On top of trying to succeed academically, one has to navigate the social aspect of making friends, interacting with others, and figuring out one’s identity. Now, imagine doing all that while being…
Read more about Telepresence Learning with Robots at UC Irvine
UC IT Blogger
May 16, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAccessibility, GAAD, Global Accessibilty Awareness Day
By Yvonne Tevis.
May 17, 2018, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day or “GAAD,” as they say.
What does that mean? Well, walk for a minute in someone else’s shoes – particularly someone who is disabled and has to use assistive…
Read more about How Do People with Disabilities Use IT?
UC IT Blogger
July 25, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAccessibility, UC Davis, UCD
By Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. In 1993, Jason Lorgan’s boss told him digital textbooks were three years away. “Of course, years passed before we had them,” said Lorgan, now the director of stores for the University of California,…
Read more about Transforming Textbooks: UC Davis’s Inclusive Access
UC IT Blogger
June 16, 2016
All Articles, SpotlightsAccessibility, CCES, Leah Burns, Scott Simmons, UC Santa Cruz, UCSC
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Scott Simmons has a natural curiosity, a passion for his job, and is committed to the University. Celebrating ten years at UCSC as of May 2016, he’s an IT programmer analyst working…
Read more about Spotlight: UCSC’s Scott Simmons, Specializing in Applications, Ergonomics, and Accessibility
Tom Andriola
March 1, 2016
All ArticlesAccessibility, Anna Gazdowicz, EDUCAUSE, Lucy Greco
Last month the EDUCAUSE Review published an article, “Implementing an Accessibility Policy: An Insider’s Guide,” by two IT staff at UCB – Lucy Greco (pictured) and Anna Gazdowicz. Lucy tells her personal story as a blind person, and how technology…
Read more about EDUCAUSE puts focus on IT accessibility
