IT Accessibility Initiatives at Illinois

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IT Accessibility Initiatives at Illinois November 7th, 2012 Jon Gunderson, Ph.D Coordinator of IT Accessibility University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign jongund@illinois.edu

IT Accessibility at Illinois Creating infrastructure Developing policies Creating resources Working with vendors Purchasing

Creating Infrastructure Disability Services (DRES) 3 FTE alternative media specialists (eText and captioning) Coordinator of IT Accessibility (me) IT Accessibility Specialist: Training IT Accessibility Specialist: Web applications and vendors Software developer and user interface designer: Tools Departmental/Campus/Educatonal IT (CITES) Accessible Design Specialist: Internal CITES development Accessible Design Specialist: Outreach to campus unit Enterprise Administrative IT (AITS) 1.5 FTE Accessibility Evaluators in QA group Distributed responsibilities in units

Developing Policies and Procedures Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (2007) Developing captioning policy All 3 campuses eText production (eText@Illinois)

Creating Resources Web accessibility best practices working group http://collaborate.athenpro.org/group/web/ http://html.cita.illinois.edu/ Open source tools for accessibility evaluation OpenAjax Alliance Evaluation Library http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/Accessibility OAA Cache Inspector for Firefox http://code.google.com/p/oaa-accessibility-cache-inspector/ AInspector for Firebug http://code.google.com/p/ainspector

NOTE: Assume web applications are not accessible unless you test them Working Vendors Few vendors understand accessibility Educate and prioritize accessibility solutions Do not assume vendors do not care Build inter-institutional coalitions Testing with students, faculty and staff with disabilities NOTE: Assume web applications are not accessible unless you test them

IT Purchasing Include IITAA requirements in RFPs Most vendors claim some level of accessibility Purchasing decisions for IT are very decentralized People making purchasing decisions do not understand accessibility Need to improve their capabilities in accessing accessibility

Ask Vendors about.. Demonstrate accessibility features Demonstrate compatibility with assistive technologies Help you create accessible instructional materials Accessibility by default (instead of exception or impossible) Support HTML standards Captions Audio descriptions