Presented by Alison West, Sarah Ryder, Rob Eveleigh Four small liberal arts colleges in Western Massachusetts are working together to develop and implement parallel and collaborative campus-wide IT accessibility solutions. This four college initiative has included the development of a homegrown open source Web accessibility testing Web app (“Accessibility Evaluation Tool”) at Hampshire College that […]

The WordPress API: Web Applications for the REST of Us What: Workshop at the 2017 HighEdWeb conference When: Wednesday, 10/10/2017 Where: Hartford, CT WordPress is an incredible platform for building custom web applications… but until now, it always required a bit of hacking. With the release of the REST API, it has finally become a […]

Presented by Jonathan Perlman Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with 10,000+ students and 1,000+ faculty and staff has adopted WordPress as our primary web publishing platform. We’ve mostly had success, but we’ve also had our share of failures and growing pains. In this case study, I’m going to talk about how we started out […]

Presented by Catherine Harwood Are your website pages full of phrases such as “look in the right column” or phone numbers without area codes so they’re not easy to dial on a mobile device? Are your page’s text layouts, tables, and images optimized for both desktop and the responsive move to mobile? With 70 percent […]

Presented by Travis Totz Most institutions, companies, and startups are constantly wrestling with how to deliver content to their constituents and users on many different experiences. Adopting a content strategy that focuses on varied intake of your content will enable a myriad of benefits that go far beyond delivering the right content to the right […]

Presented by Chris Wiegman There’s a lot of talk about website security, keeping sites updated and making sure passwords are strong, etc. These techniques might be great for your site itself but aren’t helping your privacy or your users and, in the right circumstances, can leave your fancy new passwords and other data open to […]

Presented by RJ Bruneel Chrome Developer Tools is a great tool for inspecting and debugging code, but it is capable of so much more. For example, did you know you can modify CSS/SCSS code in Chrome and automatically save your changes to the corresponding CSS file? Chrome Developer Tools can be intimidating and there is […]

WPscan is a popular command line tool for scanning WordPress installations to find vulnerabilities. It is a frontline tool used to find access points for your site – and – if it’s good enough for that hackers, you should be using it too! I recommend downloading it immediately to test your sites. However, I just […]

Where: online When: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 1pm CDT Google “degrees of disability.” Go ahead; google it. I’ll wait. 112 million results? That’s a lot, isn’t it? From government agencies to higher education institutions, everyone has their own guide to help them determine levels of disability. What does this tell us? That it’s pretty challenging to determine […]

Just received the audience feedback from my 2014 HighEdWeb presentation and wanted to share. Thanks again to everyone who attended! Evaluation Summary I didn’t really have an estimate on how many people attended my initial session, but looking at the numbers it was a packed house. A total of 69 people filled out an evaluation. […]