Faculty Accessibility Resources
“Work Sustainably: Faculty Accessibility Resources” is a recurring faculty series that explores how accessibility can support more flexible, sustainable, and responsive ways of working, teaching, learning, and researching. This series presents accessibility as both a resource and a practice that can benefit everyone. By expanding the ways we interact with information, technology, and one another, accessibility opens options, creates flexibility, and helps us adapt our work to our strengths, contexts, and changing needs.
What to Expect:
- A 30-minute bite-size presentation (show-and-tell), and
- An optional 30-minute discussion and exploration period, providing opportunities for further questions, collective experimentation, resource-sharing, and community-building.
Accessibility offers multiple pathways for engaging with information and contributing knowledge. Whether used to reduce barriers, support different working styles, manage fluctuating capacity, enhance productivity, or increase flexibility, accessibility can provide tools and practices that help faculty build approaches that are both effective and sustainable.
Transforming Materials into Accessible Formats with the SensusAccess Pilot
- Session Format:
- Online
Discover how SensusAccess can simplify the process of converting documents into accessible formats, helping to remove barriers and improve access to information for all learners. In this 30-minute show-and-tell session, we’ll explore key features, share practical tips for creating more accessible content, and demonstrate how SensusAccess can help save time while supporting inclusive teaching and learning.
Upcoming Dates - "Transforming Materials into Accessible Formats with the SensusAccess Pilot"
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- Online
- Date
- September 23, 2026
- Time
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Facilitators
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Michael Antunes
Workplace Accessibility Specialist, Human Resources
Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Efficient Grading and Feedback in Canvas
- Session Format:
- Online
Discover how Canvas SpeedGrader can streamline grading and feedback workflows while supporting a more accessible and efficient evaluation process. In this 30-minute show-and-tell session, we’ll explore key features, share practical tips for providing meaningful feedback, and demonstrate how SpeedGrader can help save time while enhancing the student experience.
Upcoming Dates - "Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Efficient Grading and Feedback in Canvas"
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- Online
- Date
- October 28, 2026
- Time
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Facilitators
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Bosung Kim
Learning Design Consultant, CTLT -
Leah Watson
Workplace Accessibility Specialist, Centre for Workplace Accessibility
Understanding Built-In Accessibility Features of Windows and iOS Environments
- Session Format:
- Online
Discover how built-in accessibility features in Windows and iOS can support more flexible, sustainable, and efficient ways of working, teaching, learning, and communicating. In this 30-minute show-and-tell session, we’ll explore a range of built-in tools that can help users access information in ways that align with their preferences, strengths, and changing needs. Through live demonstrations, participants will learn how features such as text-to-speech, Read Aloud, Immersive Reader, and browser-based reading tools can support focus, comprehension, productivity, and accessibility for everyone.
Upcoming Dates - "Understanding Built-In Accessibility Features of Windows and iOS Environments"
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- Online
- Date
- November 23, 2026
- Time
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Facilitators
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Bosung Kim
Learning Design Consultant, CTLT -
Michael Antunes
Workplace Accessibility Specialist, Human Resources -
Alexandria Dupont
Workplace Accessibility Specialist, Centre for Workplace Accessibility