Interesting read, particularly for those of us working in the third space

Tweeted images always need alt text. If you have an event or program claiming to be about 'diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion,' then your lack of alt text for any image you tweet about this event or program is especially egregious and misses the mark in a big way.

For people who want to see a screen reader in action, it can be helpful to start with this demo from Hadi Rangin of the University of Washington's IT Accessibility Team. Among the things Rangin discusses are ARIA landmarks, headings, and text content.

youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI

You don't necessarily need to say 'image of' in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

Meeting this Sunday at Coleg Cambria to share ideas on the what people want to see at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham in 2025.

Loads of hard work to get the Dragon Chat room ready.
Wrexham Miners Project Supporting The RESCUE Dragon Chat - Steve Lloyd Wrexham AFC Welcome to Wrexham
Humphrey Ker

Musical tribute to Emyr 'Ankst' Williams. Worked with Emyr for a few years. Suc a lovely man. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So 'click here' or 'read more' won't make sense.

Join us for a free webinar with AbilityNet's Lucy Walsh and Alex Barker. Learn how to spot and to protect yourself from online scams that often peak during the holiday season. 

Register your place: abilitynet-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Delighted that our latest paper is out- tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
In this paper we found that while students value more innovative assessments, they need to be carefully scaffolded and supported.

Excellent session (as ever!) from MartinCompton on AI in HE. Key message - engage rather than panic, but we need to grow our own literacy given the potential to change how we work and study in HE. Thanks for organising Natalie Lafferty and colleagues.

This is a BIG deal. No longer out of date and a real challenge to clunkiness of Google Search... our relation ship with knowledge is now 'dialogue' not 'search'

Are you doing something interesting using AI in HEI that is NOT about Assessment? We want to capture a snapshot of what you are doing - it does not even have started yet and can be about ANYTHING. We just want 200 words... forms.office.com/e/RPAS8Dct4n

Still time to register for our webinar tomorrow Thurs 28 Sep at 2pm on AI in Higher Education: Panic or Engage. MartinCompton will be looking at ways we can use generative AI to help students develop their critical understanding of these tools. learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/ai-in-educatio…

My gaff is heavily invested in the Microsoft 365 environment so here are a few tips and tricks that might be useful if you use iti

At the launch event for new name and brand for Wrexham University. All very exciting and a great chance to catch up with colleagues before official welcome week.

We have again been ranked in the Top 10 Universities in the UK for Teaching Quality according to The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2024!

Discover the enormous opportunities available to you at Wrexham and find out more about our degrees: orlo.uk/Wrexham_Uni_Co…

When you make the pitch for accessibility, be prepared for pushback. There are several myths and misconceptions, so it's good to be aware of what they are and how to dispel them.

a11ymyths.com