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Fix Your Content Day Is Here: Can You Make 10 Fixes?

Small fixes. More accessible courses. Start today!

An image without a description. A scanned reading that a screen reader can't access. A Word document where bold text stands in for headings. Small issues like these can create unnecessary barriers...

Posted: November 10, 2026, 6:00 AM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.

USM Accessibility in Action - November 2026 Issue

Repost from the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation

November 2026 Issue Brought to you by the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and the USM Digital Accessibility Work Group Supporting neurodivergent students requires more than good...

Posted: November 4, 2026, 1:30 PM

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6 Ways to Make Humanities Content More Accessible

The text matters. So does whether students can reach it.

A student pulls up the assigned primary source the night before class: a scanned nineteenth-century pamphlet, photographed at an angle, half the page lost in shadow. She can make out maybe...

Posted: October 27, 2026, 12:00 PM

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Fix Your Content Day: A campus-wide day of course accessibility fixes

November 10th: 1,600 fixes. 160 courses. One day.

Fix Your Content Day is a campus-wide accessibility sprint happening on November 10, 2026. For one day, faculty and staff across UMBC will come together, virtually and in person, to tackle...

Posted: October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.