Washington Policy #188 What UW Staff Should Know

Foundation for IT accessibility Values inclusive campus culture civil rights & social justice compliance awareness Universal design (UD) framework

UW vision The UW educates a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders through a challenging learning environment informed by cutting-edge scholarship.

UW values Integrity Diversity Excellence Collaboration Innovation Respect

What do they have in common? University of Cincinnati • Youngstown State University • University of Colorado-Boulder • University of Montana-Missoula • UC Berkeley • South Carolina Technical College System • Louisiana Tech University • MIT • Maricopa Community College District • Florida State University • CSU Fullerton • California Community Colleges • Ohio State University: University of Kentucky • Harvard University, …www.uw.edu/accessibility/requirements/

What is the legal basis? Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 1973 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 & its 2008 Amendments State & local laws

WA Policy #188 – IT Accessibility establishes the expectation for state agencies that people with disabilities have access to & use of information & data & be provided access to the same services & content that is available to persons without disabilities unless providing direct access is not possible due to technical or legal limitations.

Consider ability on a continuum see hear walk read print write with pen or pencil communicate verbally tune out distraction learn manage physical/mental health

“Accessible” means …a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, & enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective & equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally & independently as a person without a disability.

“Universal design” means “the design of products & environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” The Center for Universal Design www.design.ncsu.edu/cud

Proactive access approaches Universal design Inclusive design Design for all Barrier-free design Accessible design Usable design Others???

Apply UD to create inclusive physical spaces services learning activities technology

UD on a continuum Interpreter for deaf student Uncaptioned video audio described video Captioned video

UD of technology Builds in accessibility features Ensures compatibility with assistive technology

What to know about assistive technology Therefore: Emulates the keyboard, but may not emulate the mouse Design web, software to operate with keyboard alone Cannot read content presented in images Provide alternative text Can tab from link to link Make links descriptive Can skip from heading to heading Structure with hierarchical headings Cannot accurately transcribe audio Caption video, transcribe audio

UW leadership IT Accessibility Coordinator IT Accessibility Task Force IT Accessibility Team (ATS) IT Accessibility Liaisons

IT covered websites, videos, documents learning management systems administrative applications content management systems classroom technologies, lecture capture cloud-based applications email, calendars, … library resources, …

IT standards Web Content Accessibility (international) Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) Level AA developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Accessible media projects Central funds to caption high impact videos (to date 169 videos, 630 hours captioned@$2/minute) remediate PDF documents; to date (158 PDFs, 1320 pages remediated @ $10-15/pg) Awareness/training videos on making videos & documents accessible

Accessible technology

How you can get involved Become an IT Accessibility Liaison Increase your understanding of IT accessibility (explore uw.edu/accessibility website, watch videos, take UW or Lynda.com courses,…) Meet with ATS staff (RE PDFs, websites, videos, …) Apply for free captions. Incorporate IT accessibility into work flows, with each person responsible for IT developed, procured, used.

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