Captioning helps ensure that everyone can access the key content in videos, screencasts, and recordings. Captions provide a verbatim, time-synced display of spoken words and relevant sounds, enhancing accessibility and comprehension for all viewers.
Students registered with UM's Office for Disability Equity may request alternative formats for their textbooks through Central IT's Accessible Technology Services.
IT provides electronic and information technology (EIT) review to help departments meet requirements of UM's Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility policy. Accessible Technology Services provides software and hardware review as part of Procurement along with a variety of other reviews to ensure that documents, instructional materials, media, software, hardware, computing systems and websites meet accessibility requirements.
IT provides document/website remediation services (to WCAG 2.0 Guidelines) for several different types of documents. Documents/websites will be reviewed and remeditated for accessibility and an accessibility report will be given to the requestor. Documents/websites will be reviewed and remediated on a first in/first out basis, with priority given to academic departments.
JAWS (Job Access With Speech) is a screen reading program developed for Windows computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content or navigating with a mouse.
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document converter service does not make documents accessible. It automatically converts individual image-based PDFs and images into text-based electronic documents.
Having a problem sending out a Qualtrics survey due to accessibility formatting. Getting an error message regarding survey accessibility.