Blake Bertuccelli-Booth – Equalify.app and Kevin Andrews – Georgetown UniversityMonday, October 9, 2023, 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM EDT Accessibility scanning and remediation is no longer a resource-intensive problem. With the latest open source web accessibility tools, it’s easier than ever to test and improve the accessibility of web properties. As someone who has been […]

Monday, October 9, 2023, 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM EDT  Slides: Breaking up with vendors [PDF] Description We live in a modern world where vendors can provide your college with cloud-based, enterprise-level solutions. Why then, would anyone decide to build a new “application and registration” system from scratch? Initially, this was not a project my […]

Andrew Cassel – Middlebury CollegeMonday, October 9, 2023, 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM EDT  For thirty days in November 2022, we asked audiences to submit prompts which would then be generated into images using AI tools. Community members submitted prompts in the form of a phrase they would use to describe the school to friends […]

Angela Cavaliere – Montgomery County Community CollegeMonday, October 9, 2023, 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM EDT  Montgomery County Community College relies heavily on student and user input when ensuring that the college’s technology is usable and that processes are set up in a way that makes sense for our users. We developed the concept of […]

We have started to get requests to add a “Share on Mastodon” link next to the ones for Twitter, Facebook, etc. This is a great sign, but every example I found was overly complicated and utilized modal windows and 3rd party JavaScript libraries. These options are very customizable, but maybe you want something a bit […]

The Higher Education Web Professionals association, puts on one of the most insightful conferences around. This year, the 2020 conference is completely online. Check out my notes from the first day. Keynote Presenter Dr. Gabe Willis, Dean of Students at Southeastern Louisiana University Gutenpocalypse Never: How to Build Accessible Sites in WordPress Using Gutenberg Kevin Fodness – […]

The Higher Education Web Professionals association, puts on one of the most insightful conferences around. This year, the 2020 conference is completely online. Here are a few of my notes from the first day: Lightning Talks Mise-En-Place: How the Technique of Top Chefs Can Improve Your Workflow Jon-Stephen Stansel – Digital Media Specialist – University […]

Red stapler winner! Presented by Lisa Lightbourn and Krista Boniface  To get an authentic story across, nothing happens without relationships and trust. In times of high pressure, skepticism, and little time, it can be difficult to get to the heart, truth, and “why” of what moves a person. In this presentation, we’ll show how you can […]

Presented by Justin Arndt  Universities are large and sprawling conglomerations, at any size. They are old, dusty, wheezing tomes; and they are a brand new, unpredictable fire of ideas. Before the golden age of the CMS, most of these odd contradictions made their way onto the web domain: Winding overgrown navigation schemes, a diverse biosphere of […]

Presented by Jon-Stephen Stansel   GIFs are the lingua franca of Twitter. They can express complex ideas and emotions that can’t fit into a Tweet, create humor and levity, or add a personal touch to a reply. In higher education, we use them constantly to congratulate students when they’ve just been accepted, share the excitement of […]