Matthew Deeprose, accessibility and edtech presentations, blog posts, and projects

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A presentation for the DisabilityNow event organised by University of Southampton

An updated version of the previous presentation.

Can generative AI save time and effort for certain digital accessibility workflows?

I'm co-chair of the International Ally User Group.

Sometimes the accessibility report in Ultra refers to "UNSAFE_HTML" files, yet it can be hard to work out what they are because there is no preview.

What did we learn from accessibility leaders at six global Higher Education institutions?

What’s one activity that everyone who works in an information technology related field could do to make a difference to digital accessibility?

Captions on videos benefit everyone.

A case study with examples of improving document accessibility.

My presentation to the European Ally User Group, sharing: what I learned while designing a session about writing alternative text for complex images like graphs and charts, an approach to making on-brand colour contrast easier, turning the Microsoft Acces…

In this session we introduce the accessibility inspector in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

The Accessibility Inspector in Office is a useful tool that helps content creators identify accessibility potential improvements while they create content in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

I created this simple tool that ranomly chooses a set of colours from our corporate brand that all meet accessibility guidelines for contrast.

The UCISA-UX team asked whether we "made something easier for everyone to use"?

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What do we mean by alternative text?

How can IT departments sustain their accessibility efforts?

What can we do to make our PowerBI reports more accessible?

Going beyond accessibility checklists, you may quickly get bogged down with technical details and acronyms that you feel you may never understand.

TextBox are well know for their accessibility work, most recently the ASPIRE awards.

I've compiled a list of accessibility newsletters and blogs.

Recent experiences have demonstrated that University staff and students expect to use online resources with a variety of devices, making full use of accessibility features such as reflow, captions, and text-to-speech.

We share these materials as part of our presentation Accessibility Allies at the University of Southampton.

Not a presentation as such, but the magnificent Cam Beaudoin invited Peter J.

The University of Southampton introduced Blackboard Ally (a tool that provides insight into an institution's accessibility) in Summer 2021.

A common misconception is that Digital Accessibility slows down and impedes IT development process, making them less agile.

PowerPoint’s Design Ideas feature helps us create attractive slides quickly.

IT departments in the Higher Education sector and elsewhere know they must commit to accessibility, but how can we take this ambition and embed it within our operations?