Making Digital Accessibility Accessible…and Fun!

Accessibility: it can sometimes seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be! Join Drs. Jamie Sickel and Youxin Zhang in this highly interactive session to learn the fundamental principles of digital accessibility. You'll learn not only the "what's" and "why's" of accessibility, but will also come away with practical, easy-to-implement procedures so you can be confident in your ability to create digital content that is accessible for everyone. The essential steps, such as applying useful headings, making descriptive hyperlinks, adding alternative text to an image, formatting tables for greater accessibility, adding captions to videos, and creating sufficient color contrast will be addressed with examples. An invitation will be extended to attendees to enroll in the Kapi‘olani Community College Fundamentals of Digital Accessibility professional development course (fully online, asynchronous, self-paced). Upon registration, participants can access the course for free, either as a rich web-based resource to reference or to complete the competency assessment and earn free digital credentials (i.e., certificate, badge).

Jamie Sickel
Kapi‘olani Community College

Dr. Jamie Sickel is an instructional designer at Kapi‘olani Community College. She has a background in education, visual communications, and instructional design. Prior to serving as an instructional designer at Kapi'olani Community College, she served as the blended learning advisor for the School of Education at Western Sydney University in Australia, a teacher educator at Ohio University, a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes fellow, and a K-12 teacher.

Youxin Zhang
Kapi‘olani Community College

Dr. Youxin Zhang currently serves as an instructional designer at Kapiʻolani Community College. She has an educational background in Learning Design and Technology and practical experience working closely with different subject matter experts at higher education level. Her areas of expertise and research interests include but are not limited to distance education, digital accessibility, professional development training, instructional design and development, assessment, data analysis and visualization, educational technology, etc.

Session Description

Presenter(s)