Students Wanted: Three Open Spots. One Great Team. The Web Team is looking for three shining stars to join the team as Student Web Content Editors. These behind-the-scenes semi-pros keep utc.edu from turning into a digital attic worthy of Storage Wars, making sure pages stay polished, links behave, and requests don’t drift off into the internet…
Say It with Pictures… and Words
The Art of Alt Text You’ve heard the saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words,” right? Well, not if your Wi-Fi flakes out or you’re using a screen reader. Then it’s worth exactly zero—unless you’ve added alt text, that magical little sentence behind the scenes that makes your image make sense. Alt text isn’t just…
Digital Collegium Accessibility Webinars
(Formerly HighEdWeb) Learn on demand through the Professional Development Library!Full access included with membership paid by UT System. The UTC Web Team want to let you know about an excellent resource: Digital Collegium’s 2025 Accessibility Summit webinars. As a part of the UT System, all employees have free membership available through UTK, which would normally…
New Federal Accessibility Rule:What It Means for Content Editors
On April 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice finalized a new digital accessibility rule. This rule requires all state and local government websites and mobile apps to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. For the UT System, this means all campuses—including UTC—must be in full compliance by April 24, 2026.…