Hello AIG members, You would have received notification from Brightspace Community about our upcoming Accessibility Interesting Group meeting on April 4, 2024 if you have already 1. Registered for Community Single Sign On<https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/16742-community-single-sign-on-solution-beta-experience>, 2. Joined the Accessibility Interest Group<https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/group/4-accessibility-interest-group>, and 3. Bookmarked the Monthly AIG Events Updates thread<https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/discussion/2180/monthly-aig-events-updates#latest>. If you have not, please register and bookmark the event updates thread when you have a moment. We do not want anyone to miss the invites to our monthly meetings. Hence, reaching out through our group email as well. I have attached the calendar invite and pasted the session info below my signature. Looking forward to seeing you on April 4th. Best regards Sam Sambhavi Chandrashekar, PhD, CPACC (she/her) Global Accessibility Lead D2L Corporation<https://www.d2l.com/accessibility/>, Toronto Session time: Thursday, April 4, 2024, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm ET Session Title: Dear Colleague: Getting buy-in for making content accessible Session Summary: Online accessibility for people with disabilities cannot be an afterthought. The joint Dear Colleague letter <https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1584491/dl> of May 19, 2023 from the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education galvanized colleges, universities, and other postsecondary institutions in the US into prioritizing accessible content for teaching and learning. Institutions might have different experiences in getting this done. In this session, we would like to share with you and learn from you on: * What the Dear Colleague letter tells us * How we can create impact through accessible content * Barriers we discovered in our own organization * Going beyond the letter of the law to embrace the spirit * Best practices we’ve learned along the way * Group discussion on strategies and experiences Speakers: Sam Chandrashekar, Global Accessibility Lead, D2L. Kate Wilhelm, Director of UX Research and Accessibility, D2L