Accessibility Work Group

Members:

• Sudo-Team Lead:  Brandy Long

• Kelley Meeusen (Communications Liaison)

• Liz Anderson

• Brandy Long (Web Manager)

• Marc Lentini

• Alexis Austin

• Sue Gallaway

Mission

Maximize awareness of and promoting the consistent implementation of accessibility requirements among all 34 community and technical colleges

Objectives

Notes from 11.14.12 Webconf

Not on IC Work Plan

One issue is visibility of the issue

What about the following tasks:

• Create a resource library

• Create language that ELCs and DSS people can use to talk about the issue on their campus

• Anything else from the survey?

TIMELINE: Fall 2012 (@ elc mtg) – October – December

• • Talk to Renee to get on agenda (for PD)

  • Talk to Connie/Mark: Monday Meetings

  • Topics:

    • • scope of issue

        • • dovetail w/ data

      • policy state/fed

      • Teacher/Student voices -- on hold for now to create our own video or document

      • YouTube, live -- update fall 2012 mtg: sent out to group via email

  • Explore Sloan-c as a source – Fall 2012 update: Pending

  • Tools for UDL

    • • vendors, demos, W3C

      • Mike to talk to Mary Gerard for state speakers

      • Fall 2012: Marc to see about a process model for next meeting?

Data Collection

TIMELINE: early Sept – early Oct

• • Fact sheet which informs recommendations

    • • HP (SMS/FMS) – is there a code?

      • DSS

      • Anon. Survey: Fall 2012 update: sent out, received results from 13 of 34 colleges; results copy sent to Connie

      • Anecdotal-- Fall 2012 update: see above

        • • YouTube (success and failure examples)

            • • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epg4K7e50Q

              • http://youtu.be/qL4shFJHOvc

          • DSS – fall 2012 update: Pending survey results and contact

          • Pair with data (retention/completion or mind change )

  • Mike to draft survey

    • • All to get DSS Q to Mike in 2 wks

        • • How many students seen w/ identified disability

          • type of disability

          • Type of services requested

          • Documentation req (IEP)

          • accommodation provided

          • Type of course (F2F vs H vs OL)

          • College have a clearly stated policy?

          • Recommendation to DSS students for OL vs F2F courses?

Recommendations to SBCTC

TIMELINE: Winter 13 eLC Meeting (Jan) – draft 2 weeks to review, revise for Jan meeting.

• • Motion to eLC to send a formal recommendation to SBCTC

    • • Following PD

      • Technology Request (Fall)

      • Recommendation (Spring)

        • • Awareness of necessity

          • RFP

          • Negotiate a contract

          • Core Technology (start now) – ITC help (being defined by ITC)

          • Policy to “Follow federal law”

          • every class to use the system you must do X

• • • All college policies (search 34 colleges for policy statement):moved to december

    • Additional resources and links

    • Universal Design: http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/universaldesign/intro.html

    • Captioning: http://griffinworldwide.net/services/video-captioning

    • Free Accessibility tools: http://access.uoa.gr/fs/eng/pages/home

    • Georgia Tech Research Institute, Sec508 Accessibility in the State of Washington: http://accessibility.gtri.gatech.edu/sitid/state_prototype.php?state=47#47ApplicationDevelopment

Other things:

High level goal alignment with IC Goals

Extend timeline for survey – send to DSS folks manually if we still don't get responses

(send to the DSS people when we find the list and copy elc member)

Please review our fall 2012 report to the Instruction Commission, which incorporates feedback from the Instruction Commission, and revise your goals/strategies/outcomes to incorporate those listed.