November 6 2018 AUL Open House Remembering UDAC November 6 2018 AUL Open House

Focus on the report Produced in 2013 47 pages long Result of a year long collaboration of about 20 people Many recommendation met or exceeded since

Goals of study Evaluate the university’s legal compliance with federal regulations for accessibility of EITs; and Establish recommendations for moving forward collaboratively in policy, compliance, training, support, and governance of IT accessibility efforts across campus.

Core recommendations Establishing policy for adopting universal design standards, with associated procedural documents to support the Boulder campus.

Core recommendations Developing education and outreach campaigns, and training and certification programs to realize the vision of universal design of all digital and online resources and tools, learning technologies, and course content.

Core recommendations Creating a senior level director position and office of universal design initiatives with responsibility for implementing and coordinating the study’s recommendations.

Core recommendations Providing financial resources to meet captioning requirements and to provide faculty with consultative and design assistance to ensure accessible course materials.

Recommended principles For the campus to meet its legal requirements and pursue its academic mission, it must have high-level champions in the administration to give the recommendations visibility and support. Being proactive about accessibility issues will save the campus time and money, reduce its legal vulnerability, help avoid the burden and enforced timeline of a complaint filed through the Office of Civil Rights, allow it to better and more easily meet the goals outlined in Flagship 2030, and be a national leader in the universal design of EIT.

Interesting snippets On the ADA coordinator: This role provides interpretation of the ADA, Section 504, and the Fair Housing Act to the campus. However, this is not a technical role supporting accessibility of EIT, and lacks the technical expertise and resources to effectively advise on matters of EIT accessibility.

Interesting snippets Our overall strategy is to create a policy and accompanying campus standards, mimic an office similar to the campus-and-system security office, that has a reporting structure outside of the IT arenas for accountability and compliance purposes.

Interesting snippets Public content could potentially cost $2M if all of it is retroactively captioned (in all campus sources – Kaltura, YouTubeEdu, iTunesU channels). Universal design initiatives office should assess need and consider grant funding for this.

Interesting snippets We recommend 5 training tracks to cover typical applications of tools on campus and to better support campus on this important mission. These tracks are recommended by communities: teaching, learning and research; administration and operations; IT and web content producers; facilities, grounds, and transportation; and communications.

Interesting snippets We recommend a period of 18 months (from policy approval) for grandfathered tools or services to be either replaced, updated to accessible versions, or for reasonable alternative accommodations to be established