[Athen] Responsibility of departments linking to faculty person
sites
Howard Kramer
hkramer at ahead.org
Wed Nov 30 17:59:53 PST 2016
Thanks Wink - that's really helpful, and interesting.
-Howard
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ATHENites,
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> As part of the advisory committee on website accessibility at my previous
> college in AZ, we pushed the president to OK our mission: to examine the
> accessibility of every instructor’s personal web pages. We created a “tree”
> of permissible links: Department pages, faculty pages, adjunct faculty
> pages. We created an accessibility template for instructors’ webpages.
> Everything beyond Department/faculty/adjunct pages in the tree were
> eliminated (with advance warning to the faculty that the website advisory
> committee would be doing this). We only permitted a limited number of
> identified and trained people in each department to made edits to the
> department or faculty webpages.
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> If you have faculty or departments which are behaving like the cats in the
> Herding Cats Superbowl commercial some years ago, this stricter type
> approach might be a good starting place to bring folks into line. The reins
> can be loosened up once the faculty realize it applies to everyone and that
> changing their website(s) –perhaps offering training and support through
> your faculty support offices– serves the purpose of bringing all of the
> college together to the same standards of accessibility and “look.”
> Simultaneously, of course, it brings every faculty member’s page into
> compliance.
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>
> A thought to consider on a cold, rainy Wednesday in Portland OR.
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> Wink
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> Wink Harner
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> Adaptive Technology Consulting & Training
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> Alternative Text & Media Production
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> The Foreigntype
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> foreigntype at gmail.com
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> winkharner1113 at gmail.com
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> (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please
> forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.)
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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:18 PM
> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network
> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Responsibility of departments linking to faculty
> person sites
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>
>
> Thanks Heidi, Joseph.
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>
> -Howard
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>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Heidi Scher <hascherdss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would second Joseph's comments. It's a two-prong question. Is it on an
> EDU domain? Yes, then must be accessible. No, then it depends on content
> and use. If any information is related to student use, then the site should
> be accessible. That's what we preach to faculty - any sites which they
> include in their course information should be accessible.
>
> Heidi
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> +++++++++++++++
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> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
>
> Associate Director - Assistive Technology --- Center for Educational Access
>
> University of Arkansas --- 209 ARKU --- Fayetteville, AR 72701
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> 479.575.3104 <(479)%20575-3104> ph --- 479.575.7445 <(479)%20575-7445>
> fax --- 479.575.3646 <(479)%20575-3646> tdd
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> +++++++++++++++
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> +++++++++++++++
> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
> Associate Director
> Center for Educational Access
> University of Arkansas
> ARKU 209
> Fayetteville, AR 72701
> 479.575.3104 <(479)%20575-3104>
> 479.575.7445 <(479)%20575-7445> fax
> 479.575.3646 <(479)%20575-3646> tdd
> +++++++++++++++
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> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Joseph Sherman <Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu>
> wrote:
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> I’d think it depends on the content and context of the faculty site. If it
> is a math professor’s personal page, where the page is not under the edu
> domain, detailing his love of opera or hobbies, then I probably wouldn’t
> worry about it. However if it contains course related material or
> information students need to acquire for a course, the student must receive
> the same benefits or service as other students.
>
>
>
> Joseph
>
>
>
> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2016 4:05 PM
> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <
> athen-list at u.washington.edu>
> *Subject:* [Athen] Responsibility of departments linking to faculty
> person sites
>
>
>
> Hello All:
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what the responsibility of academic departments are when
> linking to faculty personal sites, which may not be accessible. What is
> considered the best practice and is it the department’s responsibility for
> ensuring external resources are accessible?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
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>
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