Guides: Accessibility and SUNY Libraries: Training and Best Practices

Deque University

SUNY employees can learn more about accessibility through Deque University, which is is a digital accessibility training platform that offers self-paced courses for a wide variety of topics, including web accessibility, document accessibility, multimedia accessibility and more. All courses are searchable and may be used as a reference. Upon completion of each course, you will receive a certificate of completion. Submit a request for user access.

Here are several recommended courses:

Disability Etiquette Basics
Effective Communication, Part 2: Remote Communication
Basic Web and Document Accessibility for Content Contributors
MS Word Accessibility Techniques
MS PowerPoint Accessibility Techniques
Basic PDF Accessibility

SUNY Presentations

Redesigning Library Websites for Cognitive Ease
Presented by Alyssa Panetta, University at Albany. (11/19/2024)
Incorporating Accessibility into the Institutional Repository
Jennifer Jensen, scholarly communication librarian at SUNY Oneonta, and Ed Beck, instructional designer and online learning specialist at SUNY Oneonta, talk about their work incorporating accessibility into the institutional repository. (3/31/2023)
Audio Description (AD): Desire, Reality and In Between (Online Panel Presentation)
Panel Presentation covering Legal landscape and business of Audio Description, challenges for filmmakers, distributors, streaming vendors and successful advocacy. Panelists: Rebecca Oling: Director of Digital Accessibility, Purchase College, Michele Spitz: AD producer, narrator, sponsor and consultant, Sarah Brennan: ProQuest, Senior Product Manager – Academic Video Online, Stacie Taylor and Brian Edwards: Customer Success Manager, Swank Digital Campus and K12 Streaming. (4/26/2022)
Captioning Best Practices Webinar
FIT's Joseph Anderson and Carli Spina present best practices on captioning. (3/3/2022)
Disability Models and Higher Education
Presentation by Laura Harris of SUNY Oswego, reviewing models of disability and how this impacts higher education. (12/6/2021)
LibGuides Accessibility Best Practices
Michelle Eichelberger presented best practices for designing, maintaining, and updating your LibGuides to meet current accessibility standards. (10/07/2021)