[Athen] A statement on online course content and accessibility

Sean Keegan skeegan at ccctechcenter.org
Wed Sep 21 12:06:11 PDT 2016


What I am finding interesting in the discussions happening on Inside Higher
Ed and other places is that there is almost no recognition that
courses were being made accessible through the Berkeley Resource Center for
Online Education (BRCOE). It was not so much an issue that course content
could not be made accessible, but rather administrative decisions were made
such that course content did not go through a process robust enough to
address accessibility.

I recognize that BRCOE has a specific role with respect to online courses
at UC Berkeley and that not all faculty and departments may wish to pursue
those services. That said, it was not so much a technical issue such
accessibility could not be supported in these other online classes, but
rather a decision-making process that allowed for the inaccessible course
content to be produced and disseminated.

What I see in the DOJ letter is the following message: "You had the rules,
you knew the rules, but you created a situation by which you could chose to
not follow the rules."

Take care,
Sean

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Kurkjian, Nazely <Nazely.Kurkjian at suny.edu

> wrote:



> Update - Article from Inside Higher Ed. University May Remove Online

> Content to Avoid Disability Law. For some reason I can't make a

> 'meaningful' hyperlink in this email so the following is the long URL:

> https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/20/berkeley-

> may-remove-free-online-content-rather-complying-disability-law

>

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> ATHENites:

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> I imagine many of you have seen this, but in case not.

>

>

> Jennifer

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>

> A statement on online course content and accessibility

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> http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/09/13/a-statement-on-online-

> course-content-and-accessibility/

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