Writing Effective Alternative Text

Writing effective alternative text is a balance between too much and too little information. Learn best practices for managing this balance to write alternative text for complex charts, diagrams, and infographics that is effective, clear and accessible.

Presenter will be Robin Cole from the Office of Accessible Education, Stanford University

No API, No Problem: A recipe for connecting to external databases.

In Drupal, there are multiple ways to access external data sources. With the addition of Guzzle in Drupal 8, interacting with REST APIs is easier than ever. There are times though when APIs simply don’t exist for a number of reasons: the requirement has never existed, the budget is too lean, or the team doesn’t have the technical experience to create one. There are some good non-automated solutions like Migrate, Feeds and Entity Importer for doing one-time imports.

The Urgency of Accessibility

Three small things you can do to help a lot of people
 
Suddenly, many more people are working, learning, and communicating online. How can we help, and what should we do first? As a “digital curb-cut”, website accessibility helps far more people than we might expect. This presentation will discuss *why* improving digital accessibility is urgently important, and offer three key accessibility improvements that will have maximum impact for your users.

Learn Composer

If you're working on a PHP based project in 2020 you will need to know how to use composer. This session will bring you up to speed on what it is, how it works, semantic versions and some helpful hints with using it with git.

Tools for capturing and tracking researcher publications

Every researcher has to work with list of publications.  What are tools that can make this work less tedious and more efficient?

We will talk about PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus, provide very useful tips for searching for publications, tools for integration with MS Word and your websites.

Resource handout: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wOQeThhqF4-u1psEXGmIaH_4g9RZ-IRA3g5BqTsg4Mc/edit#

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