Research Graphics offers support, guidance, training, maintenance and design for UMBC departments, labs, programs, etc. to anyone in the UMBC community who uses the sites.umbc.edu platform to host digital content.
To request assistance or services, please submit the Website Suggestion, Correction, and Design Requests Google Form and a member of our team will contact you. Even if you are currently not using sites.umbc.edu, but have other questions or webdesign projects, please feel free to send us any questions or start the conversation by emailing us at researchgraphics@umbc.edu we can often recommend next steps or other partners to work with if a project is outside of our scope of work. Please note that some services might incur a fee. See our researchgraphics.umbc.edu/rates-and-payment/ page for more info.
Information about Digital Content Standards and Accessibility:
For updated guidelines and more information, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build digital content based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.
USM Digital Accessibility Resources and Training:
More information about the University of Maryland System’s commitment to digital accessibility, training, professional development, and resources can be found at: https://www.usmd.edu/digital-accessibility/
UMBC Resources and Training:
UMBC has launched the Digital Accessibility Steering Committee (DASC) led by vice presidents Tanyka Barber and Jack Suess. This group is charged with developing, tracking, and evolving our compliance efforts by focusing our resources on the efforts that can achieve the greatest impact. For more information on this committee, please see the Campus Announcement.
Sites Training:
UMBC Department of Information Technology has a wild range of instructions and training regarding sites.umbc.edu and Silktide, the accessibility tracking and management software. For more information and training videos visit the UMBC Atlassian Wiki Page.
Instructional Training:
Instructional Technology & New Media (ITNM) has extensive resources for faculty and staff who create instructional content for Blackboard or other platforms. They also offer regular training sessions that they list at https://doit.umbc.edu/itnm/training/.
Faculty Development Center also hosts workshops and training on accessibility. They post their schedule also on their my.UMBC/groups/calt.
UMBC Accessibility Liaison for the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences:
The university is committed to insuring its digital content meets or exceeds the federal guidelines for accessibility. To assist with the project of remediating existing content that does not currently meet those standards, a liaison from each college has been asked to serve as a point person for the remediation and compliance project.
Melissa Penley Cormier, the manager of Research Graphics, is the acting liaison for CNMS. Any questions or assistance needed in regards to website accessibility, can be directed to Melissa at melico1@umbc.edu. More information about the university project for accessibility and the liaisons’ role can be found at https://sites.umbc.edu/sites-digital-accessibility/project-process/ and more general accessibility information can be found at https://sites.umbc.edu/sites-digital-accessibility/.
If you are a member of CAHSS, please contact Jason Duncan. If you are a member of COEIT, please contact Karen D. Mattingly for more information.