Creating Accessible Content: Accessibility Events

Schedule of Events

NWHeat Webinars

Northwest Higher Education Accessibility Technology Group (NWHeat) offers publicly open webinars on accessibility topics for Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) and Orbis Cascade Alliance members:

• May 1, 2024, 12 noon PDT
  Easing the Transition to STEM Higher Education for Students with Disabilities
• May 15, 2024, 11am PDT
  Digital Accessibility – Legal Update from the Office for Civil Rights

Recordings and materials from previous events are available at NWHeat Events. A list of most recent events:

• Accessible Technology: How A Screen-reader Works with STEM content and More, presented April 16, 2024
• Accessibility in EdTech: How Do Your Products Rate?, presented March 13, 2024
• Introduction to the new NWHeat Knowledge Base, presented December 13, 2023
• Accessibility Considerations in Open Education, Co-hosted by NWHeat and WCET, presented November 16, 2023
• Library Building Accessibility Assessment, presented October 11, 2023
• Untethered teaching and lecture capture. Promoting inclusion and universal design for learning, presented June 14, 2023
• WCET Webcast: Lessons Learned on the Journey Through a Website Accessibility Audit, Co-hosted by NWHeat, presented April 12, 2023