2016-2017 Accessibility
Members:
Chair: Kathleen Chambers: North Seattle College
Alissa Sells, SBCTC
Vanessa Scee, SVC
Tom Gibbons, South Seattle College
Patrick McEachern, Community Colleges of Spokane
Kevin Bowersox-Johnson, Seattle Central
Jess Thompson, SBCTC
Niki Fleetwood, LWIT
Tye Durbin, Whatcom
Amy Rovner, Shoreline
Aryana Bates, North Seattle
Goals:
Provide an Inclusive Accessibility Retreat: IT, Faculty, DSS
Provide an Online inclusive accessibility training
Connections to Instructional Council Workplan
2.1 Increase student access and success
3.2c Support accessibility of eLearning and other online resources.
Progress
Spring Meeting
What did you accomplish?
Received a grant and will be facilitating our 3rd annual accessibility retreat at Dumas Bay, Federal Way Washington: August 3, 4.
Jess created Accessibility 101 Training. Shared in Commons. Continues to be offered regularly.
What was left unfinished?
Building in additional content to the Accessibility 101 training to make it more useful for additional stakeholders, e.g., administrative staff, campus leadership (deans, VPs, etc). Work is ongoing.
What do you want to see done between now and our August meeting toward your work plan goals?
Execute and deliver the Accessibility Retreat.
Current Facilitators lined up (for next year, try to insure that there are facilitators from DSS, eLearning, IT):
Tom Gibbons
Kathleen Chambers
Jess Thompson
Zach Lattin
Dawn Hewley
Niki Fleetwood
Jeanne Tucker
Boyoung Chae
Winter Meeting
1. Provide an Inclusive Accessibility Retreat: IT, Faculty, DSS
August 3-4, 2017: Dumas Bay, spot reserved. Waiting for SBCTC payment to secure location.
Facilitators, so far: Amy Rovner, Tom Gibbons
2. Provide an Online inclusive accessibility training
Training created by Jess Thompson.
Group members are helping to facilitate
Offerings so far:
Midway through the third session
session four is starting next week; fifth session is open for enrollment.
Enrollments (as of 2/10/17)
Completions (as of 2/10/17)