In Their Own Time
Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The Interactive Content team help launch a new digital comic resource.
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Educated Prompting: Coding Without Writing a Single Line
In my second month as the DLAM Digital Accessibility Intern, I’ve been contributing key accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music application. This blog describes how a GenAI workflow helped fast-track my understanding of Python coding, and allowed me to make impactful changes to an open-source project, through a process I call “Educated Prompting”.
Read morePreserving Scottish Heritage: The Accused Witches of Scotland
This post was written by LLB student Dervla Craig on her first month as Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer. My name is Dervla and I am going into my second year of the Graduate LLB at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I am doing a 12-week internship with the University’s Information Services […]
Read moreDiary of an Accessibility Intern (Weeks 1-4)
In this blog post, I write about what digital accessibility is, how we can make digital content more accessible, and why all of this matters in the first place. Also, this is a sort of diary of my first month as a Digital Accessibility Intern: what I have been up to, and my thoughts about various activities I have undertaken.
Read moreASPIRING study website
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. The Interactive Content team within Information Services designed and published the ASPIRING study website on behalf of Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman from the CCBS (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh).
Read moreAccessibility testing our Effective Digital Content online course
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we approached manual accessibility testing and the changes we made as a result. This is part 5 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other posts in this series are: Part […]
Read moreContent Improvement Club: what we covered in our March session
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we looked at writing and improving alt text to make images accessible to all users. Our revamped content improvement meetups We recently launched Content Improvement Club, a series of meetups aimed at staff who work with web publishing at the University. The meetup […]
Read moremedia, AI and students
I am pleased to be able to offer paid work to 20 student interns to work in ISG as captioners. Alongside AI tools which generate automated captions and transcripts, the human captioners ensure that the standard of quality is good enough to support students with hearing difficulties. This semester (to 5th March) they have …
Read moreH5P Awards 2025 Nomination
I am very pleased to say I have been nominated in the “Community Choice” category in the H5P Awards 2025, for the most innovative #H5P project of the year. Five Years of Sight Loss: A Heartfelt and Interactive Diary – by Stewart Lamb Cromar (The University of Edinburgh) Please consider voting to support my entry […]
Read moreDigital Accessibility Intern
If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.
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