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IT Accessibility: The Big Picture

Writ Mid-sized

Terrill Thompson

Technology Accessibility Specialist

University of

Washington

Robert SquiresDirector, UMOnline

University of Montana

Marlene Zentz

Accessibility Specialist &Instructional Design

Consultant




Outline

• Introductions

• Audience Poll

• Historical Background

• Today’s Technology Landscape

• Culture, Policy and Vendors

• Strategies & Solutions

• Next Steps



Introductions



University of Washington

• Accessible Technology Services, part of UW-IT

• AccessibleWeb@U Interest Group

• IT Accessibility Task Force

• Distributed services

• E&IT Accessibility Task Force

• Montana Accessibility Interest Group




Audience Pol l



Live Poll Results



HistoricalBackground



Legal Accessibility Requirements

• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990

• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act,

Amended in 1998



Standards and Guidelines

• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 (1999)

• Section 508 Accessibility Standards (2000)

• W3C WCAG 2.0 (2008)

• W3C Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification



EDUCAUSE Core Data Service

Survey 2013Question: Did your institution have a web accessibility policy and if

so, upon what standards or guidelines was it based?



Preliminary Survey Results (n=550)

• 49% No, my institution did not have a web accessibility policy

• 36% Yes, based on Section 508 standards

• 7% Yes, based on WCAG 2.0

• 3% Yes, based on WCAG 1.0

• 6% Yes, based on other standards or guidelines

Final results will be published here: educause.edu/cds



Future: Updated Laws and Standards

• Information & Communication Standards (Sec 508)

• ADA Regulations for Web Accessibility



Meanwhile…

• June 2009 – NFB vs Arizona State University(and 5 others)

• November 2010 – NFB vs Penn State University

• March 2011 – NFB vs Northwestern and NYU

• March 2012 – NFB vs Florida State University

• And numerous other complaints filed with the U.S

Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR)



Today’s TechnologyLandscape



Accessibility of Websites

• 77.9% of pages include HTML headings

• 60.4% of images have alternate text

• 39.3% of form fields have labels

• 3.3% of pages use ARIA landmark roles

Sample: 31,701 web pages at 3251 higher education institutions in the U.S.

Source: itd.athenpro.org (April 2013)



PDF Accessibility

• 33.8% of PDFs in higher education are “tagged”

• Only 20.7% of PDFs at doctorate-granting universities

are “tagged”

• “Tagged” = the foundation for accessibility is in place

• But a tiny fraction of tagged PDFs are truly accessible

(with headings, semantic structure, alt text, etc.)



Accessibility of Vendors’ Products

“Making accessibility a priority in (vendors’) developmentroadmap is going to be driven by market demand. And if

an institution never says a word, the vendor isn’t going to

do anything about it. So if we begin to communicate our

demands collectively, then the vendor will recognize the

market value of accessibility.”

Gerry Hanley, Senior Director of Academic Technology Services

California State University Chancellor’s Office



Accessibility of Video

• 1.6 million videos on YouTube have captions (2012)

• 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every

minute (estimated 1 billion videos)

• 0.16% of videos are captioned on YouTube

• 0.00% of video on are captioned on Vimeo

• 0.00% of video anywhere is audio described.



A Mid-SizedCase in Point



Culture

Before the Office of Civil Rights Complaint…

How to engage the institution and our statewide affiliates

around issues of accessibility?

Montana Accessibility Interest Group:

http://umt.edu/accessibility_group/






Policy

• Senior Leadership Commitment

• IT Accessibility Constituent Group

• UM Electronic and Information Technology Task Force

https://moodle.umt.edu/course/view.php?id=618






Vendors

Culture revisited

Moodlerooms

Moodle Accessibility Collaboration Group

http://collaborate.athenpro.org/group/moodle/





Strategies &Solut ions



Strategies and Solutions

What accessibility strategies and solutions have you

used at your institution?



Next Steps

Creating an Accessible Campus: Login information


Select Non-NetID Login

Username: educause

Password: educause







Next Steps• Add ideas to the Moodle Shell

• Join the Montana Accessibility Interest Group

• Follow the accessibility track at EDUCAUSE

• Communicate demands for accessibility with vendors

• Join the IT Accessibility Constituent Group:

• http://educause.edu/groups/itaccess

• Friday, 9.10am-10.00am, 207B

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