Starting April 24, new federal updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will require the University of Wisconsin-Madison to make all digital resources accessible by default rather than by request. These mandates include technical standards such as live captions, audio transcriptions, alternative text for images, and keyboard-only navigation. To ensure compliance and avoid potential losses in federal funding, the university has launched a Digital Accessibility Hub to train faculty and staff on these Level AA guidelines, aiming to provide disabled students with seamless, immediate access to all online course materials and university web content.

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