Fix Your Content Day 2026

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Marshall University is joining institutions around the world for Blackboard's Fix Your Content Day (FYCD) accessibility challenge. During this 24-hour event, every accessibility improvement you make in Blackboard Ally helps move Marshall up the global leaderboard.

Throughout FYCD 2026, Marshall Online, MUIT, College Accessibility Liaisons, and Blackboard will lead short accessibility workshops and drop-in support sessions.

Ways to Participate:

Live Community (Drinko 349 or on Teams): Join short accessibility workshops to learn and fix content together. Bring your laptop!Individual Consultation, 11am-2pm: Drop by our support table outside of Drinko 349 for 1:1 assistance from a designer.On Your Own: Commit some time to “fixing” your digital content–making it accessible–in Ally. Use Ally’s Accessibility Report to update content in your course.

Lunch, provided by Marshall Online, is limited to 30 seats. Please reserve your place for lunch. We will raffle prizes throughout the day. We will also give special recognition to the most fixes and the most participation. Every improvement helps create a more inclusive learning experience for students and supports Marshall's ongoing commitment to meeting digital accessibility standards.

Workshop Schedule

9:00–9:45 a.m. | Fix Your Content Day Kick-Off, Academic Affairs + Marshall Online. Grab a coffee and get ready to fix! We’ll introduce the day, explain how to participate in the FYCD global accessibility challenge, and give you practical workflows to update your spring courses. Bring: A Blackboard course you plan to teach or adapt for spring.

9:45–10:00 a.m. | Fix Sprint 1 Put what you just learned into practice. Fix content, get help, or take a break. We’ll check the leaderboard and give out a prize. 10:00–11:00 a.m. | Beyond Compliance: What Students Experience, Aaron Preece*, Editorial Lead of AccessWorld, an American Foundation for the Blind publication. This workshop features a live screen reader demonstration to illustrate how students experience accessible and inaccessible course materials, reviews alt text requirements and common accessibility barriers, and concludes with faculty Q&A. Sponsored by the Teubert Foundation. Bring: Your questions.

11:00–11:45 a.m. | Built-In Accessibility Meets AI Assistance: Microsoft & Adobe Explore accessibility tools in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat, along with ways Copilot can support the accessibility process. Bring: Word document, PowerPoint, or PDF and apply what you learn to your own materials.