{"id":7639,"date":"2020-06-25T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2020-06-25T08:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:25:42","slug":"university-of-northampton-finishes-26th-in-a-world-wide-competition-to-improve-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2020\/06\/25\/university-of-northampton-finishes-26th-in-a-world-wide-competition-to-improve-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Northampton finishes 28th in a World Wide Competition to improve accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 21<sup>st<\/sup> May as part of Global Accessibility Day, Charlotte Dann and Jean Edwards took up the challenge to improve the accessibility of their NILE sites using the Ally tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge involved using the Ally module accessibility reports (<a href=\"https:\/\/askus.northampton.ac.uk\/Learntech\/faq\/189667\">https:\/\/askus.northampton.ac.uk\/Learntech\/faq\/189667<\/a>) to incrementally make changes to their course which would make their course more accessible and ultimately make their courses more accessible to students. The intrepid tutors worked during the day to make the necessary changes and improve Northampton\u2019s score on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ally.ac\/gaad\/?utm_campaign=Global_2020_TandL_Event_GAADFixYourContent_Ally_Reminder&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Eloqua&amp;utm_content=Global_2020_TandL_Event_GAADFixYourContent_Ally_Reminder3&amp;elqTrackId=9205BBB371DA62DA2A3FE9C43C3C1824&amp;elq=d99fd78b85d2441297d5b64ddce11004&amp;elqaid=30036&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqCampaignId=15724\">global league table<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the day, Northampton finished 28<sup>th<\/sup> in the World (3<sup>rd<\/sup> in Europe) for the greatest improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations to Charlotte and Jean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more assistance on using Ally then contact your Learning Technologist &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/staff\/nile-help\/who-is-my-learning-technologist\">https:\/\/libguides.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/staff\/nile-help\/who-is-my-learning-technologist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 21st May as part of Global Accessibility Day, Charlotte Dann and Jean Edwards took up the challenge to improve the accessibility of their NILE sites using the Ally tool.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge involved using the Ally module accessibility reports (<a href=\"https:\/\/askus.northampton.ac.uk\/Learntech\/faq\/189667\">https:\/\/askus.northampton.ac.uk\/Learntech\/faq\/189667<\/a>) to incrementally make changes to their course which would make their course more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25,270],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learntech-news","tag-accessibility","tag-ally"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>University of Northampton finishes 28th in a World Wide Competition to improve accessibility - Learning Technology Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2020\/06\/25\/university-of-northampton-finishes-26th-in-a-world-wide-competition-to-improve-accessibility\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"University of Northampton finishes 28th in a World Wide Competition to improve accessibility - Learning Technology Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the 21st May as part of Global Accessibility Day, Charlotte Dann and Jean Edwards took up the challenge to improve the accessibility of their NILE sites using the Ally tool. 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