[Athen] suggestions for university web accessibility guidelines/policy

[Greg Kraus]

We actually do not spell out the technical requirements. Instead, in
our current regulation, we point to the "(Federal) Access Board's
Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (36 CFR
Part 1194, hereinafter, the Access Board Standards)" and say Web pages
must meet this requirement. The regulation in it's entirety is at

http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/campus_environ/non-discrimination/REG04.25.5.php

Our proposed update to the regulation uses similar language of
referring to the Access Board’s Electronic and Information Technology
Accessibility Standards. This way, as those standards change our
requirements change as well.

I hope this helps.

Greg


--
Greg Kraus
University IT Accessibility Coordinator
Office of Information Technology
North Carolina State University
919.513.4087

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer.atsol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Greg,

> Can you indicate on list if you're planning to use 508 as the basis for

> technical requirements?

> Looking at some other policies, I've noticed most use 508 as their technical

> standards, some, such as Ohio State, supplement it with some of the WCAG

> guidelines.

> For anyone interested, I found Ohio State's policy to be a useful

> model: http://ada.osu.edu/resources/WebPolicies.htm, http://wac.osu.edu/standards/index.html.

> Some other policies and sites folks might want to check out include:

> Purdue: http://www.purdue.edu/webaccessibility/Policy/

> Colorado State: http://accessibility.colostate.edu/accessweb.htm

> University of Texas at

> Austin: http://www.utexas.edu/web/guidelines/accessibility.html

> Also, WebAIM has two excellent resources. One article on their evaluation of

> web accessibility policies at various

> universities: http://webaim.org/articles/policies/policies_pilot/

> and another an extensive list of campus web accessibility

> policies: http://webaim.org/articles/policies/postsec/ (just came across

> this while I was looking for url for the one above).

> -Howard

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Greg Kraus <greg_kraus at ncsu.edu> wrote:

>>

>> I hope to be able to share our updated Web accessibility policy

>> shortly. Our IT Accessibility Advisory Working Group just sent our

>> recommended changes to our Office of General Counsel. We are hoping to

>> have it approved by mid-August. In the meantime, if you have specific

>> questions I can probably answer them off list.

>>

>> Greg

>>

>> --

>> Greg Kraus

>> University IT Accessibility Coordinator

>> Office of Information Technology

>> North Carolina State University

>> 919.513.4087

>>

>>

>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Teresa Haven <Teresa.Haven at asu.edu>

>> wrote:

>> > Please respond to the list; we are in the same process here.

>> >

>> > Thanks,

>> >

>> > Teresa

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

>> >

>> > Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D.

>> >

>> > Supervisor, Alternative Format Services

>> >

>> > Disability Resource Center

>> >

>> > Arizona State University

>> >

>> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu

>> > [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of

>> > Howard

>> > Kramer

>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:02 AM

>> > To: athen-list at u.washington.edu

>> > Subject: [Athen] suggestions for university web accessibility

>> > guidelines/policy

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Hello All:

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > We're in the process of working with our campus web communications on

>> > revamping and updating our (very old) campus web accessibility

>> > guidelines

>> > (with the aim of eventually making these into campus policy).

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Michigan State University looks like it has a good policy and associated

>> > website. Anyone know of any particularly good universities to emulate?

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > Thanks,

>> >

>> > Howard

>> >

>> > --

>> > Howard Kramer

>> > AHG Conference Coordinator

>> > Access Specialist

>> > 303-492-8672

>> > fax: 492-5601

>> > Disability Services

>> > Division of ODECE- achieving excellence through diversity and inclusion

>> >

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> --

> Howard Kramer

> AHG Conference Coordinator

> Access Specialist

> 303-492-8672

> fax: 492-5601

> Disability Services

> Division of ODECE- achieving excellence through diversity and inclusion

>