1. Accessibility Starters
Sarah Alag
Chris Glenn
Steve Wettergren

2. Goals of this presentation
Introduce the USF Accessibility Policy
Recognize the standards we are choosing to follow
Experience access issues first hand
Learn some tips and tricks for making documents more accessible today

3. USF Accessibility Policy
It is the goal of the University of St. Francis that all course material and web- based information is as accessible as possible to all students. The purpose of the Accessibility Policy is to provide guidelines regarding the proactive design and development of robust websites and courses, regardless of modality, in a format that is easily accessible to all students. By making courses and websites accessible to all students, makes the same content accessible to students with a wide range of disabilities.

4. WCAG guidelines
“The WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities” They are guidelines and not rules.
WCAG Overview
These are likely to become the national standard.
Of the three levels A, AA, AAA, USF is starting with the most basic “A”
WCAG Guidelines Quick Reference

5. Example Guidelines

6. So Let’s Explore Accessibility…

7. Quiz
1. Which legal settlement was reached in July 2013 and what school was involved?
2. What legal act requires electronic and information technology to be accessible to persons with disabilities?

8. Readable What issues did you encounter when reading the quiz document?
Typical accessibility issues:
Font Size
Font Selection
Spacing and tabs
Colors and Contrast

9. Document Markup Try using a screen reader Using CSS markup to format
Avoiding tables for layout
Alt Text
Using clearly named links

10. Summary and final thoughts
Creating Consistency
Within documents
Within the course
With your policy statements
Next trainings
Focused online webinars
Word, PPT, PDF, html, Canvas Content
Accessibility Committee on the Portal