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Accessibility at the UW

Category: Training

Connecting With 91探花Supervisors To Prepare for April 24 and Beyond

Post categories: GAAD Leadership Training

On January 20, 2026, the 91探花Digital Accessibility Initiative team shared an update with all 91探花supervisors outlining the April 24, 2026 deadline for digital accessibility requirements and the tools, training, and events available to support this work. This post provides a summary of that message for the 91探花community; .

Ongoing updates to supervisors will continue through spring 2026 to help make digital accessibility part of everyday practice across the University.

How Supervisors Can Support This Work

Supervisors play an important role in helping teams plan for the deadline and for a more accessible and inclusive UW. In our January 20 message, supervisors were invited to:

  • Share accessibility resources and updates with their teams
  • Encourage participation in training and community events
  • Reinforce accessibility as part of everyday digital work
  • Help teams prioritize accessibility for websites, documents, videos, forms, and course materials

Tools: Accessibility Checkers

Accessibility checkers can help identify common issues such as missing alternative text, low color contrast, and structural problems. UW-supported options include:

  • Built-in checkers, such as those in Microsoft Office applications
  • Course accessibility tools such as
  • DubBot, UW鈥檚 web accessibility checker (available by request), along with other tools and extensions

Accessibility checkers are most effective when paired with manual review and informed judgment. Additional accessibility checkers and extensions are listed on聽Accessible Technology鈥檚 Tools web page.

Learn and Connect: Events

Community learning is an important part of UW鈥檚 accessibility efforts. 91探花hosts regular events that offer practical guidance and opportunities to connect with colleagues.
Recurring and upcoming events include:

Visit the Digital Accessibility calendar for full details.

Guidance and Training

91探花offers free digital accessibility training and practical guidance for all roles, from beginners to advanced practitioners. The Digital Accessibility Training page brings together recommended learning paths, role-based courses, and how-to resources to help teams get started and build skills over time.

Together, we will make accessibility a shared, sustainable practice for聽creating and delivering digital content, for the April 24 deadline and beyond.

Happy (More Accessible) New Year

Post categories: Partners Training

As we move toward the April 24, 2026 ADA Title II deadline, digital accessibility will be a shared focus for the University community. Meaningful progress depends on embedding accessibility into everyday workflows for creating, publishing, and sharing digital content. Together, we can ensure accessibility is not an add-on but is a standard feature of the 91探花experience.

2025: Expanding Tools, Training, and Community

UW’s Digital Accessibility Initiative (DAI) exists to support this effort, and throughout 2025, teams devoted to the DAI focused on connecting people with tools, training, resources, and each other. This work reflects a growing, coordinated effort across all three campuses to build sustainable digital accessibility practices. Highlights from the past year include:

Support for Faculty and Instructors

  • Delivery of to academic leadership to share digital and course accessibility resources with faculty.
  • Offering new resources, tools and additional training sessions for faculty, including:

Coordination Across 91探花Campuses and Services

  • Expansion of the Digital Accessibility Liaisons community, which has grown to over 200 members, supported by a and regular meetings.
  • Development of a Digital Accessibility portal, news and events blog, and central calendar to make it easier to find resources, events, and perspectives from across 91探花campuses.
  • Ongoing to reinforce digital accessibility as an institutional priority and to advocate for sustained support.
  • Publication of an interim to establish 91探花requirements for digital content and applications to ensure equal access to University services, programs, and activities, and support compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Establishment of a Tri-Campus Libraries ADA Title II Task Force by 91探花Libraries to help clarify compliance priorities, coordinate information sharing, and encourage digital accessibility improvements across the libraries. Additionally, a dedicated was created to support centralized access to information. 91探花Libraries鈥� Accessibility Working Group offers information sessions with guest speakers to share best practices for ADA Title II compliance.

Campus-Specific Digital Accessibility Efforts

  • Enhancement of 91探花Tacoma’s digital accessibility efforts through consolidation of accessibility resources on a , the launch of the Faculty Council on Digital Accessibility (FCDA), and ongoing professional development via Accessibility Insights workshops to support a proactive, community-driven accessibility culture.
  • Expansion of 91探花Bothell shared resources 鈥� from guidelines to workshops and webpages 鈥� through the campus monthly faculty/staff newsletter, open office hours, and one-to-one conversations. Additionally, the development of a and revision of the helped 91探花Bothell share new information and tools.

2026: Looking Ahead

  • As we move into 2026, collaboration, shared learning, and practical support, along with upcoming milestones such as , will help keep accessibility integrated into daily work as we approach the April 2026 deadline and beyond.
  • To get involved, join the Digital Accessibility Liaisons Community of Practice. All members of the 91探花community are welcome to join.

We look forward to connecting with you and continuing to build a more accessible 91探花together. Happy 2026!

 

New Video:聽Building Digital Accessibility Together聽

Post categories: Digital Accessibility Training

As 91探花prepares to meet updated ADA Title II digital accessibility standards by April 26, 2026, the work ahead is both a responsibility and an opportunity to strengthen our commitment to equity and inclusion. While the deadline is an important milestone, the broader goal is ongoing: creating digital spaces where everyone at the 91探花 can learn, work, and engage fully.

To support this work, the Digital Accessibility Initiative team has released聽聽highlighting why digital accessibility matters and where to find聽resources,聽training,聽and support.

As Provost Tricia Serio notes in the video, digital accessibility strengthens UW鈥檚 collective impact:

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From course materials and research data to websites, documents, and services, digital content touches nearly every part of 91探花life. Improving accessibility means making sure that content works for people with a wide range of abilities, technologies, and ways of interacting with information. By building digital accessibility skills now, we鈥檙e not only preparing for federal compliance, we鈥檙e preparing for the future.

Free training, resources, and events

To support this work, 91探花offers free training and resources designed to meet you wherever you are on your learning path鈥攚hether聽you鈥檙e聽just getting started or looking to deepen your skills.

Available options include:

These resources are designed to be flexible, practical, and relevant to the real work happening across 91探花campuses every day.

Watch the video and get started

罢丑别听 offers a brief introduction to why this work matters and how you can get involved. Watch the video, share it with your colleagues, and explore the training and other resources available to you.

Together, we can build digital spaces that reflect UW鈥檚 values聽and ensure access for all.

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Digital Accessibility Training Options and Calendar

Post categories: Digital Accessibility Training

Building on the digital accessibility training opportunities we highlighted this summer, 91探花has launched a new Digital Accessibility Calendar to make it easier to find events across all campuses that support inclusive digital experiences. The calendar, available on the Accessible Technology website,聽lists opportunities from across 91探花campuses, including webinars, meetups, and hands-on sessions led by accessibility experts.

Accessible digital content helps ensure that everyone in the 91探花community can fully participate in our digital spaces. The new calendar complements existing training options and highlights the University’s ongoing commitment to building an inclusive digital environment for all.

As a reminder, there are many free, flexible ways to build your digital accessibility skills鈥攚hether you鈥檙e just getting started or expanding your expertise, and whether you prefer self-paced or expert-led training. Below are some of the most popular options available to anyone with a 91探花NetID, offered through departments and partners such as Teaching@UW, 91探花Bothell, and UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Refer to our July post to learn about training options by audience and best ways to get started.

Digital Accessibility Training Options

Digital Accessibility Training Options

Audiences: 91探花students, faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced

LinkedIn Learning provides a rich catalog of digital accessibility training videos, available at no cost to 91探花students, staff, and faculty. To help you get started, Accessible Technology Services (ATS) has created four custom learning paths for the 91探花community, with more to come!

Topics include:聽

  • Web accessibility
  • Creating accessible documents and multimedia
  • Inclusive design practices

Find more information, including custom learning paths, on the ATS LinkedIn Learning web 辫补驳别.听

Audiences: 91探花students, faculty, staff, developers, designers, and more
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced
Deque University is a great place to start learning at your own pace and level, and their training library is free for anyone with a 91探花NetID.

Deque University is a great place to start learning at your own pace and level, and their training library is free for anyone with a 91探花NetID.

Deque鈥檚 online library contains over 100 courses and reference materials about digital accessibility. The courses are as short as 30 minutes or as long as 6 hours and cover a wide range鈥攆rom the basics to more advanced techniques鈥攁nd are useful for all kinds of roles: faculty, developers, designers, document authors, and more. To help you get started, Accessible Technology Services (ATS) has created a list of suggested courses for specific roles on the on the Accessible Technology Services (ATS) Deque University for 91探花Users web 辫补驳别.听

Audiences: 91探花faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner to Intermediate
Hosted in the 91探花Bothell Canvas instance, Accessibility 101 is a self-paced course that introduces:

  • Core disability and accessibility concepts
  • Best practices for creating accessible web content and documents
  • Universal Design (UD) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Optional deep dives into PDF remediation, spreadsheet accessibility, accessible teaching, and more

An updated version of Accessibility 101 will be launched soon! Visit 91探花Bothell鈥檚 page for more information.聽

Audiences: 91探花web developers & designers
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced

These monthly meetups are a place for accessibility-minded colleagues to casually review and discuss projects, including hands-on testing and code review. Offered on the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00-noon.

Find out more on the Accessible Technology Events 辫补驳别.听听

Audiences: 91探花faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner

This monthly series, hosted by Mary-Colleen Jenkins, an instructional accessibility specialist with UW鈥檚 Accessible Technology Services (ATS), features guest speakers from the 91探花community who share insights and information on making your course content digitally accessible. Typically offered the 1st Tuesday of each month, from noon to 1:00 pm.

Find out more about these monthly sessions on the Accessible Technology Events page.

Audiences: 91探花faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner
The page on provides actionable guidance for instructors with specific guidance for syllabi, reading & textbooks, slide decks, Canvas courses, and more.

Teaching@ 91探花also offers , an eight-week, online course that enhances digital-course design and pedagogy while integrating key accessibility principles.

This year, Teaching@ 91探花is also offering several related to digital accessibility.

Audiences: 91探花students, faculty, staff
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced
UW-IT Accessible Technology Services (ATS) offers on-demand webinar recordings covering topics such as:

  • Teaching accessible online courses
  • Document and web accessibility
  • Video accessibility
  • Testing with screen readers
  • Accessibility in procurement

Watch recordings at your own pace on the Accessible Technology Webinar Series 辫补驳别.听

Skill level: Beginner to Advanced
12-week, online, asynchronous program through 91探花Professional & Continuing Education聽
Audiences: Web & mobile developers, as well as nontechnical professionals, compliance coordinators, program administrators, social service professionals, disability service providers, educators, content creators, and advocates in any field that want to be more comfortable with a broad range of issues in making digital technology more accessible to individuals of diverse abilities. The course is designed to build foundational skills in digital accessibility, including the use of accessibility tools and the creation of accessible content.

Visit UW鈥檚 website for more information, including tuition and schedule.聽

Join the Pack: Support Digital Accessibility

  • For more information, resources, and upcoming events, visit the Digital Accessibility portal.
  • If your department has a digital accessibility story to share, we鈥檇 love to hear from you! Contact us at digitalaccess@uw.edu.