1. Student Accessibility Services (SAS)
Making FAU Accessible for All
Presented by Michelle Shaw, M.Ed.
Director, SAS
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2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Solutions
Developing video and audio materials in an accessibility format from the beginning (proactive)
Use SAS’s Accessible Format Materials Portal (it’s free)
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