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<Title>RePost: Digital Accessibility Winter Camp: Creating &amp; Remediating Course Content for ADA Compliance and Student Success</Title>
<Tagline>Full day VIRTUAL workshop for faculty content creators</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>Join Instructional Technology for a full-day Digital Accessibility Winter Camp designed 
    specifically for faculty! Through demonstrations, guided practice, and 
    collaborative activities, you'll learn best practices for digital 
    accessibility for Blackboard course content as well as documents, 
    presentations, images, and videos. </div><div><br></div><div>See original post for more info and to sign up:</div><div><a href="http://" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/148871</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please share with adjunct faculty and graduate students who may also be creating Blackboard content. </div></div>
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<Summary>Join Instructional Technology for a full-day Digital Accessibility Winter Camp designed  specifically for faculty! Through demonstrations, guided practice, and  collaborative activities, you'll...</Summary>
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<Title>CNMS Digital Accessibility Liaison for sites.umbc.edu hosted websites</Title>
<Tagline>Representaive working with DoIT Accessibility Team</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><h4>Digital Accessibility Liaison for the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences for sites.umbc.edu hosted websites:</h4><div><br></div>
    <p>UMBC is committed to insuring its digital content meets or 
    exceeds the federal guidelines for accessibility. To assist with the 
    project of remediating existing content on sites.umbc.edu sites that does not currently meet 
    those standards, ahead of the April 2026 federal deadline, a liaison from each college has been asked to serve as a
     point person for the sites.umbc.edu website remediation and compliance project with the <a href="https://accessibility.umbc.edu/digital-accessibility/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT Digital Accessibility Team</a>. For more on this project and the drop in-clinics: </p><p>Main myUMBC/sites post: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sites/posts/155026" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sites/posts/155026</a><br>Clinic on the 11th: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sites/events/148864" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sites/events/148864</a><br>Clinic on the 18th: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sites/events/148865" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sites/events/148865</a></p><p>
    <a href="https://cnms.umbc.edu/directory/person/du14014/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Melissa Penley Cormier</a>,
     manager of Research Graphics, is the acting liaison for CNMS. Any 
    questions or assistance needed in regards to sites.umbc.edu website accessibility, can 
    be directed to Melissa at <a href="mailto:melico1@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">melico1@umbc.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:%20researchgraphics@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">researchgraphics@umbc.edu</a>. </p><p>More information about <a href="https://researchgraphics.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Research Graphics</a>' website design and management services: <br><a href="https://researchgraphics.umbc.edu/webdesign/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://researchgraphics.umbc.edu/webdesign/</a></p>
    <p>Member of <a href="https://cahss.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">CAHSS</a>, will be working with <a href="mailto:jduncan3@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Jason Duncan</a> and members of <a href="https://coeit.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">COEIT</a>, with <a href="mailto:kmattin1@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Karen D. Mattingly</a>.</p><br></div>
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<Summary>Digital Accessibility Liaison for the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences for sites.umbc.edu hosted websites:      UMBC is committed to insuring its digital content meets or  exceeds the...</Summary>
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