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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.