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Description
There are decades of legal precedent for meeting the first two levels of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in order to comply with federal accessibility requirements for public-facing digital resources. But the recent changes to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) more clearly establish those same two WCAG levels as the federal accessibility standard for all digital resources, whether public- or internal-facing and academic. This can feel overwhelming for publicly funded institutions that have only just begun to make meaningful progress toward accessibility maturity for their websites. Hundreds of software applications purchased and maintained by departments across campus store thousands of videos and millions of documents, including portable document files (PDFs) — the sheer volume can and does feel insurmountable. No one department is equipped to bring all digital assets and applications into compliance with WCAG 2.1. While there are key differences to consider in establishing digital accessibility support services and enforcement protocols for public-facing versus internal resources, a shared framework and strategy across all units is necessary for scaling our institutional digital accessibility efforts.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this presentation, learners will be able to:
- Understand the added complexities of designing, procuring, and remediating academic versus public-facing digital resources
- Leverage existing digital accessibility standards, training materials, support resources, and third party remediation tools
- Focus on partnering with other affected departments at their institutions to share the load and all associate resources
Presenters
Michele Joy Bromley, MA, ADS, CPWA, is an IT Manager for the Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Portland State University (PSU). As the supervisor of OIT’s Digital Accessibility and Content Team, she oversees systems administration for key enterprise technologies and serves as PSU’s primary subject matter expert on digital accessibility. Michele is a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA) and a certified Accessible Document Specialist (ADS) through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). Her primary areas of expertise are project and change management, enterprise service management, and accessible digital procurement, design, validation, remediation, and incident response. She has presented on these topics for the Postsecondary Disability Training Institute, the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), AHEAD’s Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference (Accessing Higher Ground), and EDUCAUSE.
Chennettée Jelleberg, MS, CRC, is the Director of the Office for Student Access at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). As a Clinical Rehabilitation Counselor and a disabled individual, herself, she has a passion for disability rights and disability justice. She is grateful for the ability to channel this into her work with students with disabilities at OHSU and advocating for greater disability access and inclusion within health sciences education. She also provides trainings on proactive accessibility and anti-ableism practices with a particular focus in education and healthcare settings. She is a firm believer in providing knowledge and tools to empower individuals to be able address barriers in their own spaces, as well as being able to advocate for proactive accessibility practices to increase disability inclusion.