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Re: How to create a web accessibility andADA compliance department for a Higher Ed institution?

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Apr 18, 2011 8:06AM

I'd suggest that for creation of an office for higher Ed setting that
you focus on:
1. Setting organization policy;
2. Develop training plan to educate appropriate stakeholder about their
assigned responsibilities per policy, and the available resources;
3. Metrics, develop a metrics system to determine effectiveness of
training and delivery of accessible material
4. Help, develop a needs list of resources for materials authors/users,
and then build plans to fill the needs


I understand that this is very high level, but the chances that a person
can do the work of the organization as it relates to remediation of all
materials to be presented to students just isn't playing with reality.
You need to educate gatekeepers about materials expectations, authors
about the same, and then develop eresources to get them to be able to do
the work.


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From: Giovanni Duarte [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to create a web accessibility andADA
compliance department for a Higher Ed institution?

Bevi,
Those are very good points. Do you happen to know how those departments
or
offices are usually called? Do you have any type of job description that
could help?
Thanks,
Giovanni.

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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to create a web accessibility and ADA
compliance
department for a Higher Ed institution?

My first thoughts...

Testing and reviewing media files is extremely time-consuming so as you
determine the number of people and skills required to get the job done,
allow for adequate time to do the work. It's always longer than we
think!

Automation of this process is tough: so many checkpoints and standards
must
be tested by a human being rather than computer software.

And then there's the education time: getting back to those who create
files
that fail, explaining what needs to be remediated, and often
hand-holding
them through the process.

Also define whether the office will check only website files at this
time,
or will it be tasked with reviewing all files, including Word, PDFs,
Excel,
PowerPoint, and all the other files used by your institution.

- Bevi Chagnon
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