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If you need to access or change your student email password, follow these steps:
Remember to keep your new password secure and never share it with anyone. Changing your password regularly is a good practice for maintaining the security of your email account. If you encounter any issues during this process, reach out to the university’s IT support for assistance.
If you’re a Umma University student and need to access the eLearning platform or reset your password, follow these step-by-step instructions:
Once you’ve successfully completed these steps, you should be able to access the Umma University eLearning platform with your new password. Make sure to keep your password secure and do not share it with others. If you encounter any issues during this process, contact the university’s IT support for assistance.
Prerequisites:
You must have a school email address provided by the university.
Step 1: Access Your School Email
Log in to your school email account. You can do this by following the instructions provided on the university website, specifically at www.umma.ac.ke/portals, or look for instructions posted on the ICT office door.
Step 2: Visit the ICT Office
Head to your university’s ICT (Information and Communication Technology) office during their regular operating hours. This office is typically responsible for handling technology-related matters.
Step 3: Account Creation
At the ICT office, inform the staff that you want to create a MyLoft account. Provide them with your school email address.
Step 4: Download the MyLoft App
After your account is created, you’ll receive instructions on how to download the MyLoft app. Follow the steps to download and install the app.
For Android (Google Play Store):
For iOS (Apple App Store):
Step 5: Access Link for MyLoft App
Check your school email for a message from the ICT office. This email will contain an access link to the MyLoft app. Click on the link.
Step 6: Set a New Password
The link will open the MyLoft app and prompt you to create a new password for your MyLoft account. Follow the on-screen instructions to set a secure password.
Step 7: Log In
After creating your new password, you will be automatically logged in to the MyLoft app. You can now start using MyLoft to access its features and services.
Step 8: Enjoy MyLoft
Explore the MyLoft platform, where you can access educational resources, and more.
Remember to keep your MyLoft account credentials secure and adhere to your university’s guidelines for using the platform. If you encounter any issues, don’t hesitate to reach out to the university’s IT support for assistance. Enjoy your MyLoft experience!
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Umma University
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to