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TCEA Virtual Learning SIG Lunch and Learn: Understanding Digital Accessibility
1. Raymond Rose
ray@rose-smith.com
These slides are available at
https://www.slideshare.net/RaymondRose/
Title Slide Accessibility
Webinar: Lunch and Learn:
Understanding Digital Accessiblity
2. Raymond Rose
• TxDLA Public Policy Chair
• TxDLA Digital Accessibility Certificate Team
• Online Experience Starting 1995
• Online Teacher Professional Development
• Virtual High School
• Civil Rights Work Starting 1978
• Civil Rights Specialist (Mass DoE)
3. Who are you?
•Virtual Learning
Coordinator
•Online Course Instructor
•Online Currciulum
Developer
•Scope of Responsibility
• Course
• Program
• Institution
4. Your Professional Memberships?
• TCEA
• NACOL/iNACOL
• Quality Matters (QM)
• Digital Learning Collaborative/Digital Learning
Annual Conference (DLC/DLAC)
• CoSN
• TxDLA
5. Today’s Topics:
•What ADA stands for/is.
•What Section 504 is.
•What WCAG stands for/is.
•VPAT stands for/is?
•Role of Your:
• Section 504 Coordinator
• ADA Coordinator
6. Your Homework
•Who is designated as your:
• Title IX Coordinator?
• Section 504 Coordinator?
• ADA Coordinator?
•Identify your institution’s:
• Title IX Grievance Procedure/Process?
• Section 504 Grievance Procedure/Process?
•Get WAVE tool and evaluate your page.
9. Section 504 Rehabilitation Act 1973
defines disability as "physical or mental
impairments which substantially limit one or
more major life activities". "Major life activities"
include such functions as caring for one's self,
performing manual tasks, walking, seeing,
hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and
working.
10. “Those with a disability are able to
acquire the same information and
engage in the same interactions —
and within the same time frame —
as those without disabilities.”
OCR Compliance Review 11-11-2128, 06121583,
paraphrased from 11-13-5001, 10122118, 11-11-6002
Accessibility:
OCR’s Operational Definition
11. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG) Overview
A stable, referenceable technical standard. 12 guidelines organized
under 4 principles:
• perceivable
• operable
• understandable
• robust
There are testable success criteria,
at three levels: A, AA, and AAA.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
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13. Common OCR Findings
1.Lack of alternative text on all images
2.Documents not posted in an accessible
format (pay attention to pdfs)
3.Lack of captions on all videos
4.Inability to operate video controls using
assistive technology
5.Improperly structured data tables
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14. Common OCR Findings
5.Improperly formatted and labeled form fields
6.Improper contrast between background and
foreground colors
7.Using color for navigation directions
8.Frames not titled with text that facilitates
frame identification and navigation
9.Linked external sites were not fully accessible
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15. Make Accessibility the Default, Core
Functionality, Not a Feature (1of2)
•Color selection does not impede students with color
blindness
•All graphics have meaningful, learning-related Alt
Tags
•All content in text-based PDFs is searchable
•If PDF is a graphic, follow requirements for graphics
16. Make Accessibility the Default, Core Functionality, Not a Feature
(2of2)
All audio is accompanied by text transcripts
All video includes synchronized captioning
Course navigation is possible without the use of a mouse
Courses are reviewed for access by a screen reader
Content at all external links meet the same
accessibility standards
17. Who Makes Digital Resources Purchase
Decisions?
All digital resources should be reviewed for accessibility before
purchase.
Always ask vendors for their
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
https://www.section508.gov/sell/vpat
24. Your Homework
•Who is designated as your:
• Title IX Coordinator?
• Section 504 Coordinator?
• ADA Coordinator?
•Identify your institution’s:
• Title IX Grievance Procedure/Process?
• Section 504 Grievance Procedure/Process?
•Get WAVE tool and evaluate your page.
25. Resources
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
• http://WebAim.org
• http://WAVE.webaim.org (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool)
Online Learning and Web Accessibility (MVL Research Institute)
• https://mvlri.org/research/webinar-podcast/online-learning-and-the-
rehabilitation-act-of-1973/
26. Access and Equity for
All Learners in
Blended and Online
Education
https://www.inacol.org/resource/access-
and-equity-for-all-learners-in-blended-and-
online-education/
27. Online Learning Quality Standards
• National Standards for Quality (FREE)
• https://www.nsqol.org/the-standards/
• Quality Matters
• Online Learning Consortium
28. Readings
OCR Reaches Web Accessibility Agreement with 11 Educational
Institutions
• https://www.3playmedia.com/2016/07/29/ocr-reaches-web-accessibility-
agreement-with-11-educational-institutions/
Accessibility in mind? A nationwide study of K-12 Web sites in the
United States
• https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9183/7722
29. Consent Decree
• Dudley v Miami
• https://www.ada.gov/miami_university_cd.html
Resolution Letter
• Texas school district
• https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/06171
280-a.pdf
34. Your Homework
•Who is designated as your:
• Title IX Coordinator?
• Section 504 Coordinator?
• ADA Coordinator?
•Identify your institution’s:
• Title IX Grievance Procedure/Process?
• Section 504 Grievance Procedure/Process?
•Get WAVE tool and evaluate your page.