Cleaning Dirty Pages – The Power of the Smoke Sponge
By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archive Collections Manager Moray House School of Education has a long and often complicated …Continue reading →
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Reflections on almost a year of part-time accessibility testing
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik reflects on his part-time work as a Digital Accessibility Intern over the past academic year, discussing a few challenges he faced as well as his key takeaways and successes.
Read moreHow to run a usability test
In our May Content Improvement Club session, we focused on how to run a usability test. We ran through the basics of putting a script together, watched a clip from a test and had a go at prioritising some issues. Two problems for people working with content We started this session by outlining two problems […]
Read moreReflections on the First Scottish Turnitin User Group Meeting
On 27th May, my colleague Tracey Madden and I attended the first Scottish Turnitin User Group meeting hosted in the University of Dundee. This is something I wished for since I took on the Turnitin Service Manager role four years ago. Very grateful for Glenn Thomas, the Turnitin Account Manager, and Emma Duke-Williams from University […]
Read moreVideos and images – when do they add value and not just page weight?
The carbon cost of using images and videos on a webpage often goes unnoticed but cumulatively can add up. Dono Abdurahmanova and I have presented at both the UCISA digital sustainability conference and the Green Software Foundation Scotland meet up in the last week or so on the topic of sustainable media use. The key […]
Read moreWhat is an accessibility statement?
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik explains what accessibility statements are, what goes into making them, as well as things he has learned from experience in this domain. He also talks about a tool he has started developing to make the process more beginner-friendly and efficient.
Read moreMy first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week […]
Read moreWhat is an accessibility statement?
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik explains what accessibility statements are, what goes into making them, as well as things he has learned from experience in this domain. He also talks about a tool he has started developing to make the process more beginner-friendly and efficient.
Read moreWhat is an accessibility statement?
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik explains what accessibility statements are, what goes into making them, as well as things he has learned from experience in this domain. He also talks about a tool he has started developing to make the process more beginner-friendly and efficient.
Read moreUniversity of Edinburgh OER Policy update – Copyright, AI and OER
The relationship between Gen AI and the Commons is thorny to say the least, with copyright legislation in many jurisdictions struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to address fundamental questions about the nature of creativity. What is it that distinguishes human creativity? What happens when Gen AI is used to […]
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