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Announcing: Mission: Accessible Challenge

Join our 6-week (Sept. 15–Oct. 25) gamified challenge to improve your course accessibility and compete for exciting prizes! Transform your digital content while building essential skills for compliance. 

Mission: Accessible Challenge Registration

Mission: Accessible Weekly Progress Update

Join the Digital Accessibility Resource Org. in Blackboard for all your one-stop-resources and the Leaderboard!

Week 1: Images
  • Sept. 15–21 → Submit by Sept. 21
  • Add alt text and optimize visual content
Week 2: Documents
  • Sept. 22–28 → Submit by Sept. 28
  • Structure headings and improve document flow
Week 3: Tables
  • Sept. 29–Oct. 5 → Submit by Oct. 5
  • Format data tables with proper headers
Week 4: Multi-media
  • Oct. 6–12 → Submit by Oct. 12
  • Add captions and transcripts to videos
Week 5: Advanced
  • Oct. 13–19 → Submit by Oct. 19
  • Address complex PDF and scanning issues
Week 6: Final Push
  • Oct. 20–25 → Submit by Oct. 25
  • Complete final improvements and celebrate!

How Points Work:

   Action Points
    Image fixed 2
   Document fixed 10
   Table fixed 15
   Video captioned 25
   Interactive fixed 20
  Scanned doc replaced  30

Bonus:

  • +50 per 10% Ally score improvement
  • +50 for meeting with an ACTECH team member about accessibility
  • Recruit another 5 faculty to join the challenge: +200
  • Co–present on accessibility topics: +200
  • Weekly Champion: +200
  • Innovation Award: +100

Prizes:

  • Prizes will be given to the weekly top three winners
  • Top 3 prizes at the end of the challenge
  • Swag for all participants
  • Badges will be awarded in the Blackboard Org. (which you can screenshot and put into your file for promotion & tenure and/or shared on LinkedIn