[Athen] [EXTERNAL] - Online Accessibility Training

[Auston Stamm]

Thank you, Doug! This is exactly the kind of feedback I am looking for. I
will try to add a module about procurement because it is a very important
topic.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope you have a great
weekend.
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*Auston Stamm, Doctoral Candidate, Educational Technology*
*he / him / his*
Saint Mary's College of California
Student Disability Services
<https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/student-disability-services>
Accessibility & Assistive Technology Coordinator
Office: (925) 631-5071
Email: abs13 at stmarys-ca.edu


On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 9:55 AM Hayman, Douglass <dhayman at olympic.edu>
wrote:


> Auston,

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> I took a quick skim just now.

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> One thing that stood out, maybe it is covered in a video and I missed it

> since I didn’t watch those, was the need to add in procurement of

> accessible IT.

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> In higher education there is so much that is purchased from third party

> vendors that becomes part of the institution’s overall offering.  That

> would include hardware and software.  It is challenging to find anything

> that is fully accessible.  Vendors will offer up a VPAT and few of those

> are useful and accurate.

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> A couple of parallel developments are happening to aid those in higher

> education in better preparing themselves to get at the right questions to

> ask vendors beyond, “Would you send me the latest VPAT for product X?”

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> Getting contact info for someone in that external company who knows

> accessibility and is actively working to improve that is essential as

> opposed to writing to a generic accessibility at example.com address.

> Getting the vendor to demo something like keyboard-only navigation, use of

> the product with a screen reader like NVDA, to provide a roadmap on what

> their next steps towards meeting WCAG 2.1 A and AA, and things like this

> would be great to include.  Then the students who take your course will be

> better equipped in their efforts to create accessible learning environments.

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>

> Doug Hayman

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> IT Accessibility Coordinator

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> Information Technology

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> Olympic College

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> dhayman at olympic.edu

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> (360) 475-7632 (currently working remotely and don’t have access to this

> phone)

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Auston Stamm

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> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] - [Athen] Online Accessibility Training

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> Hi All,

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> I am a doctoral student at Boise State University and working on a degree

> in educational technology. I designed an online course to teach people

> about document and web accessibility. The course is focused on teaching

> working professionals about accessibility principles and helping them apply

> those principles to their workflows. The course is just in a prototype

> state and I am working on adding captioning and expanding/improving the

> modules. However, I am supposed to gather feedback so that I can learn what

> areas I should be focusing on improving.

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> If you could check out my course using the info below and complete this

> short Google Forms survey I would really appreciate it.

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> Link To The Course <https://canvas.instructure.com/login/canvas>

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> Username: speedmr70 at gmail.com

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> Password: thisisatest

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> Google Form Survey  <https://forms.gle/ZooiTue9yZeNDyDM6>

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> Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope everyone had a

> great Thanksgiving break.

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>

>

> *--------------------- Auston Stamm, Doctoral Candidate, Educational

> Technology*

> he / him / his

> Saint Mary's College of California

> Student Disability Services

> Accessibility & Assistive Technology Coordinator

> Office: (925) 631-5071

> Email: abs13 at stmarys-ca.edu <abs13 at stmarys-ca.edu>

>

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