1. Is Your State, District, or School Website Accessible?
Lynn

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

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

5. 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

6. Question 1

7. 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 s, materials, systems, lms, etc.

8. Accessible
Functional Definition:

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Question 2

14. 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

15. 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

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

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

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

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

20. Audit Results

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

22. Question 3

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

24. 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

25. 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

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