Is Your State, District, or School Website Accessible? Lynn McCormack @lynndmccormack lmccormack@cast.org

Lynn McCormack Senior Technologist, AEM Center Software Engineer, CAST Introduction Lynn McCormack Senior Technologist, AEM Center Software Engineer, CAST

Before We Begin Please enter comments and questions in the chat window The webinar slides and a digital handout are available for download The archive and transcript for today’s webinar will be available Please complete our evaluation at the end of the webinar- thank you!

Today’s Webinar Goal Increase awareness of importance of accessibility in digital communications Empower you with actionable steps towards more accessible websites

About our Webinar Adobe Connect CART Images Transcript Communication Access Realtime Translation Captioned Images Audio description Alt text Transcript Available with the archive Adobe Connect Accessibility Voluntary Product Accessibility Template 2.0 VPAT 2.0 Example for Canvas LMS

Question 1

Question 1 How accessible is your state, district, or school website? Our website is fully accessible Our website is partially accessible Our website is not accessible Not sure if our website is accessible Note that website can be synonymous with emails, materials, systems, lms, etc.

Accessible Functional Definition:

User Differences About 20% of the population has a disability Visual Color blind, low vision, no vision Hearing Deafness, hard of hearing Motor Fine motor control, keyboard or switch only, slow response time Cognitive Focus, learning differences

Old News? NFB vs Seattle (Sept 2015) edX vs DOJ OCR (April 2015) Blind parent could not access district website or students’ math assignments with screen reader edX vs DOJ OCR (April 2015) Violations of the Title III of the ADA Content and environment must be fully accessible NFB vs Seattle Settlement Justice Department OCR vs edX

More Cases Search DOE OCR for Resolution Agreements covering Title II of the ADA in Massachusetts - 9 documents no state specified - 1,048 documents Search DOE OCR resolution letters with agreements

General Outcomes Accessibility Coordinator Publish process for reporting Accessibility Issues Publish Accessibility Policy Accessibility Audit (WCAG 2.0 AA) Seattle Accessibility Policy and Contact Information

Question 2

Question 2 Which of the following are in place for your organization? (check all that apply) We have an Accessibility Coordinator We have a process for reporting Accessibility Issues We have written and published our Accessibility Policy We have performed an Accessibility Audit Don't know or not applicable

Accessibility Coordinator Must understand the diversity of users Must understand both the content and the context Must advocate for needed resources Ongoing Remediation Must be involved in tech purchasing decisions 3PlayMedia - Webinar - THE ANATOMY OF AN IT ACCESSIBILITY COORDINATOR

Accessibility Policy and Contact Seattle Public School Accessibility Statement 3 ways to contact: email, mail, phone Seattle Accessibility Policy and Contact Information

Accessibility Audit External audit Fee based Access to multiple environments Access to assistive devices Experts (in your context) Training Snapshot

Accessibility Audit Internal audit Expertise Capacity Environments Tools AMAC The Paciello Group WebAIM Tech for All

Mini Audit Use http://wave.webaim.org/ To test https://www.cde.ca.gov/

Audit Results

“Other” Audit 2 Errors 26 alerts 1 Contrast Error All automated results need human interpretation

Question 3

Question 3 How was your mini-audit? Great Good Yikes I’ll try this later

Common Issues Heading structure Color contrast Carousels without controls Forms without labels Skip links missing Alt Text is missing or redundant Videos without captioning or transcript Tab order

Addressing Gaps Use your audit to prioritize issues Plug the holes - do not add new content with accessibility issues Establish a timeline to address existing issues Do not remove all content from your website

Questions?

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