Tag: web accessibility

Check out the first episode of the student-led MSU Tech Break podcast called “Developing Your Accessibility Culture.”

In our first episode we discuss accessibility, why accessibility is important and some technologies that can help make your courses more accessible. The podcast is hosted by Shillo Wright and she interviews Phil Deaton and Brooke Knapp. Read Full Article →

The MSU IT Council met on June 1. Below are the high-level topic summaries from the meeting.

Barb Dawson, Assistant Vice President of IT Strategy, reported on the “Top 15” technology projects as reported by the MSU IT Project Management Office. She explained that several criteria are used to classify a project as “Top 15” including if the project is high profile for MSU, if the project is funded, and if it is an innovation project and/or it supports the MSU Bolder IT vision to Strengthen, Align, and Innovate. Read Full Article →

Updates to MSU’s Technology Purchasing Process: Members of University Services, IT Security, and MSU’s Web Accessibility team will present changes made to the IT procurement process to minimize security and data risks and maintain accessibility compliance for both new products and renewals.

MSU IT Service Management Improvements: Mark Seyka and Kelly Wilcox, with the MSU IT Service Management team, will present new systems being rolled out to the campus community. Read Full Article →

MSU Information Technology added captioning, lecture, capture, and other new features to Kaltura MediaSpace video storage on October 19 for MSU students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, MSU expanded MediaSpace bandwidth and storage to support continued growth.

MediaSpace users can now order video captioning at no charge. This machine captioning service is 70-80% accurate, and there’s an editing tool for correcting any captions. Read Full Article →

Joe Zanchetta, Cisco: Technical Introduction to the Cisco Unified Computing System
(PDF presentation) (recording of this presentation at 00:03:40)

Steve Oakley, Dell: Software-Defined Data Center
(PDF presentation) (recording of this presentation at 00:34:16)

Nate Evans, MSU IT Services Teaching and Learning Technology: Web Accessibility at MSU
(PDF presentation) (recording of this presentation at 01:03:40)

Doug Merrion, VMware: VMWare Digital Backpack Solution
(PDF presentation) (recording of this presentation at 01:21:25) Read Full Article →

MSU IT Services relaunched the MSU technology website, tech.msu.edu, on September 3 to enhance the user experience, streamline content and navigation, and advance the MSU and information technology brands.

As part of these goals, we aligned with the MSU Web Standards, addressed web accessibility, and incorporated responsive design to aid in mobile viewing. Read Full Article →

In the September 9 Breakfast Series, learn tips for crafting effective, accessible web content for everyone.

Kick off the year by knowing more about Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is a proactive approach in design to ensure content is educationally accessible to all students, regardless of their learning style, cognitive, physical or sensory abilities. Read Full Article →

Michigan State University is committed to accessibility on all levels. As we move toward a higher degree of dependence on the web to access programs, services, businesses, and activities, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that content is accessible to the broadest possible audience.

MSU departments, employees, faculty, and instructors are being asked to update web pages, online course materials, e-texts, PDFs, and any online content that is used for business and academic activities to meet the current MSU Web Accessibility Policy which includes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Conformance Level AA. Read Full Article →