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

2. 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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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