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Re: How to create a webaccessibility andADA compliance department for a Higher Edinstitution?

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Apr 18, 2011 1:54PM

Policies drive activities.
You need to develop policies to help in the start up of getting
cooperation.
You should include procedures also, e.g. who authorizes content, or
where students can go to request remediation of content, or etc...

Think about the various procedural things that might need to be
addressed, and build those in to policies also.
Think about authority, accountability, and responsibilities. For
example, who is responsible for ensuring videos are captioned, documents
are tagged if in PDF, and who provides the tools to do all this nifty
work.


If there are gatekeepers of content, define their role in reviewing
content for accessibility, and what their authority and responsibility
is. What accountability do site woners have for content?

I hope this helps.