Student Accessibility Services (SAS) Making FAU Accessible for All Presented by Michelle Shaw, M.Ed. Director, SAS Edit the MASTER SLIDE view to change footer text.

Student Accessibility Services Student accessibility Services (SAS) role is to help faculty and the University be in compliance with the ADAAA of 2008 and Section 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. SAS wants to ensure full and comprehensive access to the Universities services, programs and resources so students with disabilities are able to obtain information fully, equally in a comparable manner to that of an individual who does not have a disability.

Accessibility Issues Visually Impaired – websites, documents, etc. not readable with a screen reader Deaf and Hard of Hearing – audio with no transcripts and video content without closed captioning Image files not readable Jpeg or scanned PDF Images and graphs with no alt tags altering the student to what the image is of so that they know that its important or not Videos with no captioning leave the student at a disadvantage. Student can not watch an interpreter or read a transcript and watch a video at the same time – this is not equal access. Audio content without a transcript – to follow along with excludes the student completely

Accessible Materials Preface then play –don’t talk during video This is an example someone using a screen reader to an inaccessible flyer. Take notice of the information you get from the screenreader to the information within the flyer

Accessible Audio and Video Content Do you understand what Sandra is saying? No? This is what its like to a student that is deaf and hard of hearing when a video is shown without closed captioning. SAS has written a proposal for an Accessibility Program to be developed to provide assistance in making sure that the University is compliant Currently SAS is working with faculty in the courses that students who are deaf and hard of hearing to make sure that the materials are accessible SAS has currently working on close captioning around 312 videos for faculty.

Solutions Developing video and audio materials in an accessibility format from the beginning (proactive) Use SAS’s Accessible Format Materials Portal (it’s free) http://www.fau.edu/sas/Accessible_text.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8HZ8KAyGVs(step by step guide) Reaching out to SAS for our “Accessibility Testing Group” Don’t use YouTube’s auto Closed Captioning tool Create a transcript and drop it into the video to add closed captioning –this is easy to do and I can show you how Accessible Format Materials Portal is free to faculty , Staff, Students, and Alumni to use to create accessible materials SAS a group of students that we use to check out new software, websites and LMS programs for accessibility