by Christine Monnier | Jul 14, 2026 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
As you know, we all have access to Adobe tools through the college, so we might as well use them. Of course, Acrobat is the PDF application many of us use. Have you checked its accessibility options? I want to emphasize a couple of them in this post, with a focus on...
by Christine Monnier | Jun 30, 2026 | Accessibility, Ally, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
As I have mentioned before, I love Canva. I use it for all my presentations and for other kinds of documents as well. It is very easy to use and they keep adding new features to it. Another benefit is that it offers a bazillion (that’s a legit unit) templates...
by Christine Monnier | Jun 23, 2026 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
In my note to the chairs, last week, I noted that even though our college-wide accessibility score is about 73.5%, that percentage drops much lower if we consider the accessibility of files posted in our courses: Yeah, that’s … not great. And yes, the bulk...
by Christine Monnier | Jun 15, 2026 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
As you know, we got a one year reprieve on the deadline to be compliant with the new DOJ web accessibility compliance standards (although there is a lawsuit pending on this). So we have a little less than a year to at least make significant progress on our web...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 8, 2026 | Accessibility, Ally, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
The deadline we had to demonstrate meaningful progress is upon us… and we’re not quite there yet. Across all our courses, we still have a lot of files that need remediation. So we need to get going with this, at tad more actively than we have so far. If I...
