[Athen] Is your institution using PeopleSoft and how are you handling issues with accessibility

[David Andrews]

I have found this topic to be a potential quagmire. I work for the 
state of Minnesota and we use PeopleSoft for various things.  We have 
reported various accessibility problems, and bugs over the years, and 
Oracle has allegedly corrected many of them. This is inter prise 
software though, and most entities are slow to upgrade, because of 
the complexity of things. Every time we do, something else breaks. We 
are on version 3.5 or 3.6, or something like that. Oracle is working 
on a flavor of version5, or 6, I understand, so any potential fixes 
are years away for us.

So, depending on your version, your problems may have been fixed -- 
but it is hard to know!

Dave

At 05:26 PM 2/14/2022, Hayman, Douglass wrote:

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>ATHEN colleagues,

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>Here in Washington state the community college system is using 

>PeopleSoft software by Oracle which is branded as ctcLink.  There 

>are a number of accessibility issues and the process each college 

>must go through is reporting in detail what it is they are 

>encountering to members of the state board.  That group must then 

>report these issues to Oracle in an attempt to get these resolved.

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>I imagine that there are other higher education people across the 

>country who are also using PeopleSoft (or some rebranding of it) who 

>could benefit by joining forces to get accessibility issues resolved 

>similar to how joint efforts a few years back led to productive 

>dialogues to get Canvas LMS accessibility improved.

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>Thoughts and ideas from you all?

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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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><mailto:dhayman at olympic.edu>dhayman at olympic.edu

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>(360) 475-7632

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