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Siteimprove has a specific tool that will check the documents on your site for accessibility, including PDFs, word documents, excel, and PowerPoint files.
Save the date for Cornell's first Web Accessibility Camp, August 6 - 8, 2018.
The Media3 hosting migration project is proceeding.
If you are using Siteimprove to check for accessibility concerns on your website, remember that you still need to do additional manual testing, even after Siteimprove’s scan.
Beginning July 22, 2018, all incoming email to Cornell student addresses will go directly to Office 365, then be automatically forwarded to their account in Google.
CIT is retiring TeamForge, the current source code repository service and product, effective September 30, 2018.
It will soon be possible to add the extra security of Cornell Two-Step Login to a Cornell Office 365 account.
With the wide-spread adoption of Zoom, the use of Jabber Video at Cornell has dwindled. Cisco ended support for Jabber Video at the end of March and CIT will be retiring Jabber Video on Saturday, May 5, 2018.
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing announced that it received a $986,580 supplemental award from the National Science Foundation.
EDUCAUSE has issued a new working group paper, "The Changing Landscape of Video in Higher Education."
Beginning later in April 2018, Video on Demand (VoD) will begin automatically generating captions to all newly uploaded videos, using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Previously, the service only added captions when video owners specifically requested them...
The April 26 meeting of Ithaca's Project Management Institute (PMI) features Tom Theimer from Cornell Information Technologies, speaking on the Time Clock Installation for Workday Project.
Suggestions for using the cloud safely.
CIT will be retiring support for Lync 2011 for Mac on Sunday, April 15, 2018.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) is no longer supported under our campus agreement and due to the severity of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities CIT strongly recommends that everyone with a Red Hat Enterprise 5 server upgrade to a newer version of CentOS or a supported version of Red...
Update for the Alliance for Diversity and Inclusion (ADI), which represents the diversity planning efforts of multiple university divisions and units.
Box has added a new feature that lets you invite collaborators to a single individual file.
The March 29 meeting of Ithaca's Project Management Institute (PMI) features Graham Hall from Cornell Information Technologies, speaking on "Leading Projects with a Little More Grace and Ease."
Siteimprove is offering a webinar on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 from 2:00 – 2:45pm where you’ll learn about features in Siteimprove that can help you before, during, and after your website redesign process.
ARIA aides screen reader users by assisting in the rendering of non-visual aspects of your website. The Web Accessibility Initiative-Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) is a technical specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that specifies how to increase the...