Many of you come in and out of here often, I know, but we are in the B wing, which is where our language faculty, foreign language faculty are located, along with some of our other programs. Nate gave you a great preview of some of the stuff that we're working on in College of Arts and Letters. Nate Evans: Great partnership, and I'll give it to you. Kate Sonka: Or not, and I'm gonna sit down. They're doing so many things with their digital accessibility interns and improving their course quality for digital accessibility, lots of. She is the lead Teach Access representative from Michigan State University, which has been a fantastic program. You've got accessible learning that's been a fantastic initiative for the last few years. Kate and the College of Arts and Letters have been doing so much great work. Nate Evans: I was like, "For carrying CAL and MSU forward with digital accessibility," because that would hurt. We met for coffee on Christmas, and I said, "Kate, how is your back feeling?" She's like, "Wait, what?" I was. So, I am so excited to introduce Kate Sonka. Jess Knott, she's gonna lead our discussion for a few minutes to gather a little bit more feedback from you all on that, and then we'll start to cast some ideas and get your feedback going forward as well. So, we've got more folks that weren't at the January meeting, so Dr. Then the last thing is we're gonna continue the digital accessibility program retrospective that we started last month, and that was to get some feedback about where we've been in 2018, some things that worked out really well, things we need to improve going into this year, and then cast some vision going forward. We can probably share those after the meeting maybe, Jim? We have some resources on Web Access that are gonna be shared. So, excited to share a little bit more about that. This is something we've gotten a lot of feedback on over months and years, and so I'm excited to partner with Steven and Leslie on this to present a little bit more on accessible math, as well as Lena. So, we talked a little bit about that at the last meeting, and we'll mention at least a save a date for that, and then we also have a getting started with accessible math session. I have a very fun announcement around Global Accessibility Awareness Day in May. Nate Evans: We have an opportunity around Microsoft 365 that Nick Noel is gonna talk a little bit about. Again, in the same theme, we want to share more and more about what you all are doing within your programs kind of each month to give you a little slice of what's going on. We're kicking things off with College of Arts and Letters to talk a little bit about their digital accessibility program. Thank you so much for coming to the February WAPL meeting. Is anybody like a human Popsicle? A couple? Yeah? I'm with you. So, all that to say I hope you join us, and enjoy the episode. Looking ahead, our next web accessibility policy liaison meeting will be on Friday, March 1st at 1:00 over in the natural science building. However you learn best, we have it available for you there. Nate Evans: Then also, if you head on over to, go to tutorials, the training that they've provided is now available on the website. If you're an instructional designer, academic specialist, or faculty member, I really, really encourage you to take a listen to that portion of the episode. Steven, Leslie and Lena talked about how do we get started with accessibly math. We also hosted a few folks from the RCPD. Really, really great work that's going on over there. We also had an update, or I should say an opportunity for a Microsoft 365 discussion and an investigation, I'll call it, and then we had the one, the only Kate Sonka from the College of Arts and Letters talking about their digital accessibility program. ITNEXT is an event that's coming up that's gonna align with Global Accessibility Awareness Day in May. Nate Evans: In case you missed the meeting, we had a lot of stuff we covered. I just missed it on that, and we're gonna make sure that we try to avoid doing that going forward. It got really chaotic towards the end, so I apologize. We packed the room, which was great, but we also put too much information into the session and went a little bit over. I genuinely apologize for those who came to the meeting. We had a great but packed web accessibility policy liaison meeting last Friday. This is Nate Evans, manager of the digital content and accessibility team within MSU IT.
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