Hello,

There is an online workshop on May 18th from 2-5 pm about creating accessible notes. The workshop is a collaboration between TALMO (Teaching and Learning Maths Online) and our JISC accessible maths group. There are some excellent speakers who are doing interesting work in this area, and it is designed to give examples of things you can do. Details are below.

You can sign up to the TALMO mailing list http://talmo.uk/events.html, that will get you the zoom link, or let me know and I can send it to you. I would recommend signing up though, as the events I've been to in the past have all been very good.

Best wishes,

Jenny

Program
There are many subject-specific challenges to consider when producing accessible online materials for mathematics and statistics. This workshop, brought to you by TALMO and the JISC Accessible Maths Group, will go beyond the generalities and dig into the practicalities of these questions for our discipline. The workshop has three parts, detailed below with approximate timings.

14:00 Welcome and introduction - Jenny Hughes

Context
The student perspective and why this is important - Lilian Joy, Cordelia Webb plus students

Where to start with digital accessibility for STEM. Outlining minimum standards - Ben Watson and Jim Tyson

14:35 Break

Diagrams, figures and images
Introduction - Morgiane Richard

How to do good ALT text - Huw Alexander

Colouring in: accessible use of colour in figures - Josh Lim

Creating Accessible STEM Diagrams - Volker Sorge 15:40

Break 15:50

Approaches to creating notes
Introduction - Peter Rowlett

A primer for RMarkdown: getting started, examples and a few tips - David Hodge

Building accessible, flexible learning materials with the open-source Chirun tool - Christian Lawson-Perfect

Using Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Book to create accessible mathematics notes - Alex Best

16:50 Summary discussion - Jenny Hughes

17:00 Meeting closes

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