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Accessibility Planning Part 00 – Overview

This overview video to the "Accessibility Planning" series explains the purpose and intended audience of the series and outlines the topics covered in subsequent videos.  Click here (https://laudatotech.com/accessibility-planning-part-00-overview/) for more information, including a text version of this recording for

Creating Accessible Documents in Word – Part 8 – Color

This is part 8 in the "Creating Accessible Documents in Word" series.  This episode deals with issues related to the use of color, including color blindness, color contrast, and aesthetics. Please click here (https://laudatotech.com/resources/) for more information. https://www.youtube.com/embed/8O5kPMj7D4k

Creating Accessible Documents in Word – Part 0 – Overview

Creating Accessible Documents in Word – Part 0: Overview This brief presentation introduces the "Creating Accessible Documents in Word" series, covering the reasons for addressing accessibility in word, common accessibility issues, and topics covered in this series. Below you

Creating Accessible Documents in Word Part 01 Headings and Styles

Creating Accessible Documents in Word – Part 1: Headings & Styles In this inaugural accessibility guide, Nick Laudato, Vice President of focusEDU gives a brief introduction to the importance of using accessibility-friendly techniques in the composition of Word documents, even

Creating Accessible Documents in Word Part – 03 – Styles

Accessibility composition of Word documents is the third in a series of video podcasts on "Creating Accessible Documents in Word." Accessibility composition of Word documents is illustrated in the importance of "Styles" in readability and shows how to use "styles"

Enrollment as a Lens on Higher Education

Enrollment As a Lens on Higher Education If the days of being able to work decentrally are over and we cannot afford to do two or three or five separate tactics, then finding ways to optimize internal intelligence and

Creating Accessible Documents in Word Part 02 Lists

Creating accessible documents is Part 2 of the series dedicated to accessible documents in Microsoft Word. This episode focuses on numbered (ordered) and bulleted (unordered) lists that are ICT accessible Word documents.  Creating accessible documents is compliant.

Questions to Ask Registrar Candidates

Questions to Ask Registrar Candidates We all know the questions to ask when interviewing a candidate for a position on our campus.  We want to get to know him or her as a person and as a professional, whether

Curriculum Committee Approvals Link to Degree Audit

Curriculum Committee Approvals Link to Your Degree Audit System In the best of all worlds, your faculty and their Curriculum Committees will understand that when they approve a course that the course needs to be applied correctly into a

Interim Leadership in Enrollment Services

Interim Leadership in Enrollment Services – What to Consider and How to Select the Right Candidate Interim leadership is a sound strategy Interim leadership in enrollment services adds value.  When a top enrollment services administrator leaves the

NSLDS Compliance Reporting – It’s Complicated

NSLDS Compliance Reporting - It's Complicated NSLDS compliance reporting can be a challenge.  In March of 2017, a meeting took place with Federal Student Aid staff and representatives from the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers (AACRAO) at