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As EDUCAUSE members work to ensure that institutional technology environments advance higher education accessibility for students with disabilities, they develop and maintain a wide range of policies and practices to support that end. For example, some institutions have created checklists and testing processes to ensure accessibility considerations are appropriately reflected in the selection of technologies and applications used at the institution. As another example, institutions have also established accessibility guidelines for the development and implementation of online and blended courses.
Accessible Web Design
EDUCAUSE Accessibility Guidelines This guide is a working draft developed by the IT Accessibility Constituent Group at the request of EDUCAUSE staff. It is designed to provide guidance to authors, reviewers, and publishers associated with EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ), and to the larger EDUCAUSE community, on how to ensure that web content is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.
Institutional Examples
North Carolina State University IT Accessibility The Office of Information Technology at North Carolina State University maintains this site as a primary source for the accessibility services and resources it offers. It provides links to relevant legislation and policies (institutional, state, and federal), web accessibility standards, and tools for web accessibility testing. The site also identifies the areas in which IT accessibility consultation services are available to the university community.
University of Washington Information Technology Accessibility This site offers a variety of resources on technology accessibility, including policies and standards (institutional, state, federal, and international), guidelines for producing accessible web pages, information and recommendations on procuring accessible IT, and links to tools and resource sites for addressing IT and web accessibility needs. Of particular note, the site hosts a list of higher education IT and web accessibility policies from nearly a dozen colleges and universities.
WebAIM A program of the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University, WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) supports a comprehensive array of accessibility information, tools, application reviews, and training services. Institutions seeking to reevaluate and renew their approach to web accessibility can take advantage of WebAIM’s web accessibility implementation model. The program also provides free access to a tool for assessing the accessibility of any web content, WAVE, and the WebAIM blog includes reviews of assistive technologies for web access.
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Accessibility Policies and Practices
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Accessibility A Major Topic at EDUCAUSE 2012
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August 29, 2012
With a couple of months to go before the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference opens on November 6 in Denver, Colorado (and online ), I wanted to highlight the large number of sessions focusing …
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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free Multimedia
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January 1, 2007
The Western Kentucky University (WKU) Office of Distance Learning was created in 2000 to provide faculty teaching online courses with resources to improve the content of their courses. In 2003, …
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Accessibility of Instructional Web Sites in Higher Education
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July 30, 2007
Accessibility of Instructional Web Sites in Higher Education A collaborative program offers assessment and consultation to instructional Web site developers for Section 508 compliance By …
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Accessibility Policies and Practices
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Accessibility Policies and Practices True As EDUCAUSE mem…
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ARL Report: A Great Overview of Print Accessibility
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December 14, 2012
Comprehensive overviews of accessibility issues that one can still read relatively quickly don’t often appear. However, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has produced just that in its…
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FCC Telecom Service Provider Accessibility Certification Rules
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April 22, 2013
Our friends at ACUTA (the higher education telecommunications administrators association) have posted an alert to colleges and universities that "charge students, tenants, or others for …
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Guidelines for Making Web Content Accessible to All Users
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March 26, 2009
By Terrill Thompson, Saroj Primlani, and Lisa Fiedor The main goal of accessibility standards and guidelines is to design websites everyone can use. Several organizations offer stan…
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Implementing a University-Wide Vision for Accessibility: The Penn State Experience
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November 7, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
The 2011 Penn State/National Federation of the Blind (NFB) agreement identifies strategies for improving the accessibility of the institutional technology environment for persons with visual disa…
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IT Accessibility Video to Premier at EDUCAUSE 2012
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October 23, 2012
Terry Thompson, a technology accessibility specialist at the University of Washington and long-time leader of the EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Constituent Group, has announced that a video on ca…
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Member Accessibility Policies, Practices, and Findings Wanted
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November 10, 2011
At the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, EDUCAUSE announced the launch of two new pages in its Resource Center that are intended to serve as places where membe…
