The Digital Accessibility Office offers two types of training opportunities, live Zoom sessions lead by DAO staff or self-paced learning.
Live Zoom sessions
DAO’s Training Calendar is now updated for August – December 2024!
If you want to request a focused team training, please reach out to us at digital_accessibility@unc.edu.
Self-paced trainings
New Digital Accessibility in Course Design and Digital Accessibility Awareness training!
These trainings are now available for both faculty/staff and students!
Registration information
To better serve our UNC community, we have two forms of registrations available.
Employees and affiliates with an Onyen should use Carolina Talent so we can ensure you get credit for taking our courses.
Students should use LearningStream.
Training Topics
Digital accessibility awareness
The goal of this training is to build your awareness of the techniques for making digital content accessible to a wide variety of people.
This training is offered as an online self-paced course through Carolina Talent for faculty/staff and Canvas for students.
Digital accessibility in course design
The goal of this training is to introduce faculty and instructors to concepts you can start with to begin making your course content more accessible and inclusive for all students.
This training is offered as an online self-paced course through Carolina Talent for faculty/staff and Canvas for students.
Captioning
The goal of this training is to teach you the impact of captioning video, captioning resources available to you, and how to caption using YouTube’s built-in features.
Web accessibility basics
The goal of this training is to walk you through the basics of creating accessible digital content on the web.
Document remediation part 1 – Word and PowerPoint
The goal of this training is to teach you best practices for ensuring your Word documents and PowerPoint presentations are fully accessible.
Document remediation part 2 – PDF accessibility
This goal of this training is to teach you the tools and processes to ensure you have a basic understanding of PDF accessibility requirements. We will use Adobe Acrobat for this training.
NOTE: We highly recommend taking Document Remediation Part 1 – Word and PowerPoint before taking this course. Some core topics covered in Part 1 will not be repeated.
Social media
The goal of this training is to provide information and guidance for ensuring your social media content is inclusive and reaches all audiences.
Procurement
The goal of this training is to walk you through what to look for when purchasing with accessibility in mind.
Zoom accessibility
The goal of this training is to help teach you the best practices to ensure your meetings and events through Zoom are accessible.