Accessibility Report

December 2, 2016

ADA Overview

The Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II and Title III

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

Section 508, Section of the Rehabilitation Act - Electronic and Information Technology

Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA)

Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act Resource page

State Laws that Require 508 Compliance

UIS Office of Web Services statement

Please note: Web accessibility is a requirement for our university.

“The Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) requires Illinois agencies and universities to ensure that their websites, information systems, and information technologies are accessible to people with disabilities. While the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act already require the State to ensure accessibility, the IITAA establishes specific standards and encourages the State to address accessibility proactively.”

– from the Illinois Department of Human Services website.

COLRS Accessibility Help

1. Accessibility and Teaching Online Tips

2. COLRS Teaching and Technology Blog - Search for Accessibility tips

3. Use accessible formats of Word, PDF, HTML, and PowerPoint.

• How to Make Powerpoints accessible

• Create and verify PDF accessibility

• How to make WORD documents accessible

• How to create accessible EXCEL documents

4. Learn more about accessibility

• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - Feb. 2016

• About Universal Design

• Creating accessible courses in Blackboard

• Faculty responsibility discussed - Inside Higher Ed - 2013

• Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act

Videos

Screen Reader on PDF scanned as Image video (30 seconds)

Screen Reader on PDF scanned with Optical Character Recognition (but not tagging for reading order) video

How to Add subtitles and closed-captions to a YouTube video

Screen Reader on PDF Optical Character Recognition and Tagged for Reading Order video (50 seconds)

Lawsuits Proliferating Regarding Accessibility of Online Learning

October 2016 website lawsuits

Accessibility from a distance in higher education from University Business

US Dept of Justice Letter to UC Berkeley August 30, 2016

The Struggle to Make Online Courses Accessible in Higher Ed from Converge: The Center for Digital Education

Why online ed accessibility is not a “when we get to it” issue from eCampus News

5 Signs That You’re Vulnerable to a Digital Accessibility Lawsuit from 3PlayMedia

Spring 2016 Digital Accessibility Legal Update from Law Offices of Lainey Feingold

An incomplete list of some of the recent actions from University of Minnesota

University Accessibility Policies and Readings

A Course Accessibility Checklist

DO-IT publication that could be basis of a plan -- Real Connections: Making Distance Learning Accessible to Everyone

Research Report - State of Accessibility Technology in Higher Education - 2017

Computer Science Course Accessibility

Boise State University Report: Recommendations to Promote Online Course /Content Accessibility by Christine Bauer

Shippensburg University IT Accessibility Plan

Penn State Accessibility Plan

Michigan State College of Natural Sciences Web Accessibility Five Year Plan (2015)

University of Maryland 3-Year IT Accessibility Plan

San Jose’ State Faculty Development of Accessible Online Materials

A university-wide accessibility plan (with updates of milestones achieved)

Perhaps the best discussion and note the appendix: A Working Model for Complying with Accessibility Guidelines for Online Learning by Cifuentes, Janney, Guerra, and Weir