Web Accessibility Training for Content Editors
UPDATED: Location now via Zoom
Yale Postdoctoral Trainees
Social Media Accessibility: Basics
If you add content to your websites, chances are you’re also responsible for managing social media for your department or unit. Social media platforms like YouTube/Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest can present unique challenges for users with disabilities, many of which are beyond your control.
Captioning Your Media at Yale: Options and Basics
Have media you need to caption, but unsure what your responsibilities are for captioning under Yale’s Accessibility Policy, where to begin, or what options are available? This two-hour training covers paid options for captioning your media through our Preferred Captioning Vendors 3Play Media and Rev.com, as well as free options, like YouTube. Attendees will leave understanding their obligations under Yale’s policy, the differences between the major captioning file types, and how to create, edit, and sync captions to their media for both Canvas courses and websites.
Accessible Word Documents, PowerPoints, and PDFs: Basics
This beginner’s document accessibility workshop is designed to train staff in the basic methods used for making Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations, and PDFs digitally accessible, for inclusion on University websites or for university-related business, including teaching, student services, and other administrative support. It is appropriate for anyone interested in learning how to make documents used in everyday university business more accessible and will cover the fundamentals of document creation and remediation.
Inaugural Yale Mental Health Symposium: Beyond the Visible: Space, Place and Power in Mental Health
This special symposium seeks to make designers and practitioners aware of their capacity to improve access to and perceptions of mental health. One-quarter of the global population will suffer from mental illness at some stage of life. The built environment therefore becomes an urgent stage in which mental health must be addressed. The rise of urban inequality has huge impacts on an individual’s access to mental health services. This symposium will explore issues of mental health at three scales: the city, the hospital, and the home.
Yale Japanese American WWII Incarceration Day of Remembrance with Frank Sato
The Yale Japanese American Students Union and Asian American Cultural Center invite the Yale community to commemorate the 78th anniversary of President Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. Yale’s 2020 Day of Remembrance will feature a fireside chat with Mr. Frank Sato, former Inspector General of the Departments of Transportation and Veterans Affairs. At age 13, Mr.
Screening of "Sisters in Arms" and reception with director
The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, in partnership with the nonprofit Justice for Kurds, will present a special screening of the film, “Sisters in Arms,” an inspiring portrait of an international women’s brigade who joins forces with the Kurds to rescue the Yazidis and defeat fanaticism.
REVERSING EXTINCTION: WHY CLIMATE JUSTICE NEEDS ANIMAL RIGHTS
Wayne Hsiung focuses his activism on exposing cruelty and rescuing animals in factory farms, leading to a “domestic terrorism” investigation by the FBI. He currently faces 16 felony charges in 4 criminal cases and will go on trial in mid 2020. His work has been featured in WIRED, The New York Times, and The Intercept.
Pounding Mochi Party -Lunar New Year Celebrations
We would be making mochi from scratch! Pounding mochi in Asian culture (especially in Japanese and Chinese culture) has been a long-lasting tradition of the Lunar New Year celebrations, we would like to share joy, asian culture and delicious food with you!
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Yale SOM Student Conference: FEMPIRE 2020: Running to Win
Fempire2020: Running to Win will bring together female leaders of business and politics for a day of candid, educational, and inspirational conversation. In this unique inflection point in America’s history and politics, it is more important than ever to galvanize a new generation of women to engage with their communities and take charge of their civic duty. We hope to demonstrate the myriad ways in which young women (and allies) can take part in the democratic process, and catalyze the change we hope to see in the U.S. and beyond.
