Author: Lexi Gudgel

Aye yi yi was this frustrating. For an assignment I had to break my website and then troubleshoot it. I have zero experience troubleshooting, so this was not fun. To break my DKC training website, I changed both the site URL and WordPress URL from “dkctraining.lexigudgel.net” to different variations of that. The reason this messed […]

Well, here we are again. After the Disaster That Shall Not Be Named, I had to reprint my nametag. Luckily, I wasn’t starting from scratch–just fixing what I already had. After giving it some thought, I figured out the issue: it wasn’t just that my nametag was small overall, but the proportions were messed up […]

Every DKC consultant is tasked with creating their own nametag, and since I’ve never used a 3D printer before, I was excited to learn something new. First I had to get started in Tinkercad, which is one of the softwares the DKC recommends for 3D prints. I found it pretty user-friendly, and I especially appreciated […]

I used professional video and audio equipment! Yay!! So you’re probably wondering what I mean. Well first, I need to back up in a little in my story…. The DKC hosts free workshops to teach UMW student skills such as: sewing, using Canva, building a personal brand, customizing YouTube banners, etc. Any student is able […]

Well, here we are. After way too long I’ve finished creating my video assignment and captions. Here is it: “In Defense of The Tortured Poets Department.” Which, again–objectively a great album. (“Midnights” was so good too. I think Taylor is getting too much flack for her newer albums.) Here is the transcription of my video: […]

I created my own sites@umw. Here is the link to My Sample Site. I chose to theme the website as if it were just an example to be used to model sites@umw to someone who doesn’t know what it is. I would explain the difference between sites@umw and domain of one’s own as such: sites@umw […]

Bad web design Here is an example post of inaccessible, bad web design. My first example, which you may not have picked up on if you don’t use a screenreader, is that I have an empty text box. I also don’t have a properly formatted title. Second of all, I’m not listing these examples in […]

I completed the Introduction to Accessibility module! I learned a lot of new things, such as more information about how a screen reader will react to certain features of my website. What I believe the difference to be between accommodations and accessibility and this: accessibility means taking simple steps to make something more inclusive for […]