Tips and Training from the Office of Technology Services
Below is a list of our upcoming free training workshops available to Faculty, Staff and Students.
Thursday, September 18
Creating Accessible PDF Documents, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m., Cook 404A
Monday, September 22
Outlook 2013: Contacts, Tasks, Notes and Journal Entries. 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Cook 404A
Friday, September 26
Excel 2013: Data Tables and Charts, 10 – 12:00 p.m., Cook 404A
To sign up for free technology workshops or view additional materials related to software training, visit OTS Training online. You can also contact us directly regarding any software training related issues at training@towson.edu or 410-704-4070. You can also follow us on Twitter.
PDF Accessibility
Do you create documents for the web? Did you know that these documents need to be 508 compliant? Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that federal agencies electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities.
OTS Training offers workshops that teach you how to create accessible pdf documents. You will learn how to make a Word document pdf accessible by adding things like alt-tags, styles and header rows in tables. You will then learn how to convert those documents into a pdf and run the compliance checker.
Upcoming workshop dates are:
Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:30 to 1:30 a.m. Cook 404A
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:00 a.m. to noon Cook 404A
Click here to register for one of these upcoming workshops.
