[Athen] Youngstown State Case

[Patrick Burke]

At 10:28 AM 1/15/2015, Sean J Keegan wrote:

>New Legal Updates

>The US Department of Education’s Office for 

>Civil Rights and two universities entered into 

>resolution agreements regarding website 

>accessibility and e-learning platforms in 

>December, 2014. Direct links to the resolution 

>agreements and letters for the University of 

>Cincinnati and Youngstown State University can 

>be found under Legal News on the ATHEN site 

>(http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news).

Thanks Sean for gathering these cases. It would 
be useful to include a publication date (e.g. for 
the press releases). That would create a nice 
timeline of progress on these issues.

Also, in reading deep down into the Youngstown 
State Letter, it says that YSU has lab 
workstations with Jaws 4.0 & Zoomtext available. 
I hope hope hope that "4.0" is a misprint for 
14.0. Jaws 4.0 would not be a very useful 
accommodation. They would have to be running 
Win98 or something... Certainly not compatible with any modern browser.

Just curious if anyone more familiar with the 
case is out there & might have any info on this 
small but crucial point. From the other topics 
addressed in the letter, it sounds like they were 
trying to be accessible before the OCR 
investigation & had some elements in place, just 
lacked organizational structure & consistency. 
(Just my reading of the document.)


Thanks very much,
Patrick
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Patrick J. Burke

Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program

Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: burke at ucla.edu
Location: 4909 Math Science


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