[Athen] Instructional Technology Accessibility planning?

[Thomas Kearns]

 "the GOALS project"

WebAim
Four Keys to System-wide Web Accessibility
http://webaim.org/blog/four-keys-to-accessibility/

NCDAE
Indicators for Institutional Web Accessibility
http://ncdae.org/goals/indicators.php


*Thomas Kearns*
Assistive Technician / Accessibility Specialist ATACP
Office of Disability Resource Center
Truckee Meadows Community College
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Thompson, Rachel <rsthompson2 at ua.edu>
wrote:


> Hi, all.

>

> Our campus has just announced the web accessibility phase of our

> technology accessibility plan (WCAG 2.0 AA over four years). We have based

> our approach on lots of W3C readings as well as what we learned from the

> GOALS project, WebAIM, what other universities have done, the needs of our

> campus’ SWD, and input from our web teams.

>

> Now, we want to draft a proposal for phase two: instructional technology.

> For us, this would include the materials posted annually by 5000+ staff and

> faculty in 20000+ Blackboard courses, as well as our captured lectures,

> publisher materials, and more. Have you drafted a plan to cover these

> needs? How did you do it? My first thoughts are to focus initially on

> courses most of our students have to take (the core curriculum and gen ed

> classes), the fully online ones, and the ones with largest enrollments. We

> will also communicate our guidelines to vendors and evaluate their

> accessibility. We will offer training to our faculty, staff, and teaching

> assistants, too. I would love your feedback on these thoughts and, if

> anyone is willing to chat with me about it or has a plan you wouldn’t mind

> sharing, I’d be much obliged.

>

> Rachel

>

> Dr. Rachel S. Thompson

> Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility

> Center for Instructional Technology

> University of Alabama

> http://accessibility.ua.edu

>

>

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