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Making Events Accessible — a checklist

Upcoming Events:

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) Speaker Series

Please join the Johns Hopkins Employees with Disabilities ERG for a weekly speaker series in October to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)!

October and November Digital Accessibility Events

Topic: Remediating Inaccessible Documents Using Prep by Continual Engine
November 13 from 1-2 pm ET

Presented by Kamran Rasul, Assistive Technology and Alternative Format Consultant, Student Disability Services

Come and learn about our newest document remediation software resource, Prep by Continual Engine! When compared to other document editing software, such as Acrobat Professional, this one has cut our document preparation by half (in most cases). This includes tagging and remediating text, images, tables, and math content and produces PDF, HTML, and docx formats.

 Join us to view our live demonstration of Prep!

Register for Prep by Continual Engine Demo

Topic: Ally for Canvas Fix Your Content Day (FYCD) Fix-a-Thon
November 18, 2025 — All day long. Fix-a-Thon Zoom meeting from 11 am to 1 pm

On Fix Your Content Day, faculty and instructional staff engage in an exercise to promote the importance of making course materials accessible and inclusive. Participants will use the Ally for Canvas tool to identify and fix accessibility barriers in as many Canvas course documents as possible in the 24-hour period from 12 AM to 11:59 PM on November 18th!  Instructors and course staff can work with colleagues to find easy wins in improving the Ally scores of course documents!  Ways to do so include: 

  • Removal of old and unused files that can improve your Ally scores
  • Substitute image-only PDFs with actual text articles
  • Use ALT text to describe informational images
  • Make your PDFs accessible by adding tags and heading
  • Improve color contrast in documents to make them more readable

Join us for a file Fix-a-Thon on Nov. 18 from 11 am to 1 pm as we fix our documents. Come for part of the session or all of it!  See how many files your division can fix in a 24-hour period!  Challenge other divisions to do the same!

Register for Fix Your Content Day Fix-a-Thon

Topic: Creating Accessible Materials with Canva (not Canvas!)
November 19, 2025 from 12-1 pm

Presenter: Anushka Jajodia, Visual Communications Designer, JHU School of Nursing

This session will share practical tips for creating accessible slides, documents, and flyers in Canva, the online graphic design tool.  We’ll cover how to make text readable with proper font choices and sizes, ensure strong color contrast, add alt text to images, and structure content with clear headings and logical reading order. You’ll also learn how to write descriptive link text, provide alternatives for QR codes, and export files so text remains selectable and usable by assistive technology. The goal is to give you straightforward, actionable steps to make your Canva designs accessible and inclusive for all audiences.

Register for Creating Accessible Materials with Canva

Recorded Digital Accessibility and Disability Events

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