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Career, Training and Professional Development Opportunities
Digital Accessibility Training hosted by Mines IT

Department / Organization: Information Technology

Learn five easy steps to make your digital materials accessible and improve experiences for all.

Join IT for a training session on, “Digital Accessibility: 5 Little Things That Make a Big Difference.” (Virtual)

- Description: This session introduces practices that will help you meet Colorado requirements to make digital materials at Mines accessible for people with disabilities. By taking a few minutes to fix accessibility issues when creating documents, you can remove potential barriers and improve everyone's experience with using your documents. This presentation will cover alternative text for images, accessible color contrast, meaningful link text, accurate captions for videos, and using accessibility checkers in Microsoft tools.

Workshop Details
- Date: March 13th
- Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
- Location: Virtual
- Sign up here: https://www.myworkday.com/mines/learning/course/54c62114d9ae1000c1fd3ab09f960000?type=9882927d138b100019b6a2df1a46018b

For more information, send email to: hales@mines.edu

Published in Digest Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026