accessibility – Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Updates from TPC+R Spring 2019

February 20, 2019 Anandi Salinas stories

Image of TPC+R cohort and instructors in front of blue conference room wall

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is running its Teaching, Pedagogy, Curriculum + Research (TPC+R) program for graduate students again this spring with a cohort of ten students from across the humanities and sciences. As an extension session of the Laney Graduate School’s Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO) program, TPC+R is designed to supplement […]

Conversations in Digital Accessibilities 2019

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Amy Li stories

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural “Conversations in Digital Accessibilities” events, we are excited to have Dr. Stephanie S. Rosen of the University of Michigan join us on February 11 and 12 for a series of events focused on image descriptions and digital publishing. On Monday, February 11, from 9:00 am – 11:00 […]

Accessibility & Publishing, Scholarship, & Digital Media

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 Amy Li events

Banner text: Accessibility and Publishing. Stephanie S. Rosen.

Dr. Stephanie Rosen, Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library will lead a facilitated roundtable discussion on “Accessibility & Publishing, Scholarship, & Digital Media” over breakfast. This discussion will examine the issue of accessibility in the contexts of digital scholarship, publishing, and media and will center on the question of how […]

Describing Visual Resources for Digital Accessibility

January 24, 2019 Amy Li events

Stephanie Rosen, Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library, will lead a hands-on workshop on digital accessibility basics for higher education contexts, with a focus on describing visual resources. Participants will have the opportunity to try their hand at describing images to gain an understanding of how subject matter expertise and […]

ECDS collaboration with Georgia Tech to support accessible crowd-sourced digital archive receives $86,471 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

August 23, 2018 Amy Li stories

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $86,471 to a partnership including the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) to develop a platform for collecting digitized community archival materials from rural Georgia audiences. ECDS is partnering with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC) and Historic Rural Churches of Georgia […]

Making Accessible Futures

June 4, 2015May 26, 2017 Anne C. Donlon stories

Emory hosted an Accessible Future workshop in April. A review of the workshop by ECDS postdoctoral fellow Anne Donlon appears today in the Journal for Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. The Accessible Future workshop urged participants to make digital material accessible to audiences with visual, aural, and cognitive disabilities, and to advocate for accessibility at our universities. The […]