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Understanding Data Visualization Accessibility, Accessibility in Data Visualization Course by Frank Elavsky. Free open source course provided by Open Visualization Academy. Length: 3 hours and 30 minutes. , Getting Started with Tableau Accessibility, When creating Tableau dashboards, UMass dashboard developers should leverage the following resources to ensure dashboards are accessible: Salesforce Trailhead: Accessible Data Visualizations in Tableau Help Article: Build Accessible Dashboards Help Article: Best Practices for Designing Accessible Views Help Article: Build Data Views for Accessibility Help Article: Set the Focus Order for Views…, Live Training, Tableau offers live in-person accessibility training at their annual conference and periodically offers virtual live training throughout the year. Please contact the Enterprise Data and Analytics team if you are interested in attending live training. , Current Accessibility Issues with Tableau, Tableau currently does not support dark mode or high contrast mode. They are actively working on fixing the CSS within Tableau so that it can support both display modes. This means that any employees with traumatic brain injuries or light sensitivity may not be able to view your online dashboards and may need the content delivered in another way.
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Please join us on Thursday, August 21, 2025 from 10:00am - 1:00pm at the UMass Club (One Beacon Street, 32nd floor, Boston) as the University of Massachusetts President's Office Department of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and Equity hosts the Strategic Response Accelerator Initiative. Dr. Damon A. Williams from the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation will join us…
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(Doc. T00-080) (as of May 13, 2025), General, Named professorships or chairs should be used to attract and retain distinguished individuals of outstanding caliber. Each named professorship will be created by the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the President. Individuals will be appointed to named professorships by the President with the approval of the Board on the basis of the candidate's outstanding academic distinction as a…, Endowed Chairs or Professorships, Endowed chairs or professorships may be created by the University upon receipt of an endowment from a donor or donors. Endowed chairs or professorships typically carry the name of the donor or an individual or group whom the donor wishes to memorialize. The endowment will support the salary or part of the salary, or activities directly related to the chair or professorship. These guidelines apply…, Honorific Chairs or Professorships, Honorific chairs or professorships are established by the University without the creation of new funds to support the incumbent's salary. Honorific professorships are of two kinds. One is the lifetime chair, designed to recognize individual distinction for the academic lifetime of that person. The designation changes to "emeritus" upon retirement and expires at the person's death. A second kind…
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