ITL Accessibility Support Pages

Instructional Technology Lab Web Accessibility Resource Page

Learning Management System

Web Accessibility Validation Tools

Software Creation Features

Adobe
Adobe Acrobat provides tools within the Standard and Professional edition that allow users to make a PDF accessible. Adobe Acrobat adds tags that markup the contents of the PDF. By addings tags to a PDF a screen-reader can extract the textual information from the document.

Adobe Acrobat Tag Tool

Adobe Acrobat Forms Tool

Fireworks Accessibility

Dreamweaver Accessibility

Microsoft
Microsoft provides a slew of tools and technologies that provides opportunity for people of all abilities. Microsoft bundles accessible features in many of their products from Microsoft Windows products to Microsoft Office products and much more.

Create an Accessible Office Document

Building Accessible Web Sites

FrontPage Accessibility Checker

MULTIMEDIA
There are a variety of tools available to help author accessible multimedia as well including adding captions to audio enabled presentations.

UIC
UIC provides a number of guidelines to assist you in making your Web pages accessible. The ACCC has created support pages that you can view to get a better idea on design web accessible pages.

Web Resources

Articles

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Email the ITL if you are a faculty or staff member, and have any questions regarding Web / Multimedia design and development or, on anything related to the use of computer technology in the classroom.

The UIC home page, packed with items of interest to the entire UIC community.

The Academic Computing and Communications Center home page.

ACCC Workshops are offered throughout the year and are open to all UIC faculty, staff and students. Sign up for a workshop today!

The ITL UofI Online Resource Page is specifically written to address the needs of faculty, staff and students associated with UofI Online distance education programs originated at UIC.

IP Videoconferencing (IPVC) supports two-way video and audio communication over the Internet, between two or more locations.

ACCC e-Rooms (aka Centra Symposium) is an easy to use Web Conferencing system for real-time teaching and collaboration.

The ITL runs a RealMedia Helix streaming server that can deliver RealAudio, RealVideo, QuickTime, Windows Media, MP3 and other multimedia content over the Internet.

Mobile Computing is a hot topic on campus, find out about wireless, Tablet PC's and more.

Blackboard is an easy-to-use Web-based learning management system that you can use to provide an integrated teaching and learning environment.

Review the materials available for each training workshop offered by the ITL and ACCC.

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