1. Washington Policy #188 What UW Staff Should Know

2. Foundation for IT accessibility
Values
inclusive campus culture
civil rights & social justice
compliance awareness
Universal design (UD) framework

3. UW vision
The UW educates a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders through a challenging learning environment informed by cutting-edge scholarship.

4. UW values Integrity Diversity Excellence Collaboration Innovation
Respect

5. What do they have in common?
University of Cincinnati • Youngstown State University • University of Colorado-Boulder • University of Montana-Missoula • UC Berkeley • South Carolina Technical College System • Louisiana Tech University • MIT • Maricopa Community College District • Florida State University • CSU Fullerton • California Community Colleges • Ohio State University: University of Kentucky • Harvard University, …

6. What is the legal basis? Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 1973
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 & its Amendments
State & local laws

7. WA Policy #188 – IT Accessibility
establishes the expectation for state agencies that people with disabilities have access to & use of information & data & be provided access to the same services & content that is available to persons without disabilities unless providing direct access is not possible due to technical or legal limitations.

8. Consider ability on a continuum
see hear walk read print write with pen or pencil communicate verbally tune out distraction learn manage physical/mental health

9. “Accessible” means
…a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, & enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective & equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally & independently as a person without a disability.

10. “Universal design” means
“the design of products & environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.”
The Center for Universal Design

11. Proactive access approaches
Universal design
Inclusive design
Design for all
Barrier-free design
Accessible design
Usable design
Others???

12. Apply UD to create inclusive
physical spaces
services
learning activities
technology

13. UD on a continuum Interpreter for deaf student Uncaptioned video
audio described
video
Captioned video

14. UD of technology Builds in accessibility features
Ensures compatibility with assistive technology

15. What to know about assistive technology
Therefore:
Emulates the keyboard, but may not emulate the mouse
Design web, software to operate with keyboard alone
Cannot read content presented in images
Provide alternative text
Can tab from link to link
Make links descriptive
Can skip from heading to heading
Structure with hierarchical headings
Cannot accurately transcribe audio
Caption video, transcribe audio

16. UW leadership IT Accessibility Coordinator IT Accessibility Task Force
IT Accessibility Team (ATS)
IT Accessibility Liaisons

17. IT covered websites, videos, documents learning management systems
administrative applications
content management systems
classroom technologies, lecture capture
cloud-based applications
, calendars, …
library resources, …

18. IT standards Web Content Accessibility (international) Guidelines 2.0
(WCAG 2.0)
Level AA
developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

19. Accessible media projects
Central funds to
caption high impact videos (to date 169 videos, 630 hours
remediate PDF documents; to date (158 PDFs, 1320 pages $10-15/pg)
Awareness/training videos on making videos & documents accessible

20. Accessible technology

21. How you can get involved
Become an IT Accessibility Liaison
Increase your understanding of IT accessibility (explore uw.edu/accessibility website, watch videos, take UW or Lynda.com courses,…)
Meet with ATS staff (RE PDFs, websites, videos, …)
Apply for free captions.
Incorporate IT accessibility into work flows, with each person responsible for IT developed, procured, used.

22. Q&A & discussion