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New position at UW: Deputy ADA Coordinator for Digital Accessibility

Posted By Terrill Thompson 02-01-2024 02:08:00 PM
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The University of Washington (UW) has an outstanding opportunity for a Deputy ADA Coordinator for Digital Accessibility to serve in a key leadership role for the University. The primary role of the Deputy ADA Coordinator for Digital Accessibility is to coordinate the University's compliance with federal ...

RE: Reliable resource for gathering case law information

Posted By Terrill Thompson 01-21-2024 03:26:47 PM
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Hi All, I'm co-author on a research paper titled "Predictors of Postsecondary Web Accessibility, 2012 to 2022" that has been accepted for publication in CSUN's Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities (watch for the full paper in March, around the time of the CSUN Conference). The possible ...

Digital accessibility maturity models

Posted By Terrill Thompson 01-11-2024 05:04:00 PM
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Hi All, How many of your institutions have conducted a formal assessment of your digital accessibility maturity? If you've done an assessment, did you use Level Access's Digital Accessibility Maturity Model (DAMM), the W3C's Accessibility Maturity Model, AEM's Critical Components for Higher Education, ...

RE: Ofc of Mgt and Budget Releases New Sec 508 Guidance to Agencies

Posted By Terrill Thompson 01-02-2024 10:51:47 AM
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Hi Jarret, What's the difference between the document you shared and this earlier one, dated September 22? https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/M-23-22-Delivering-a-Digital-First-Public-Experience.pdf They seem to both be targeted at the same audience ("FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE ...

Director of Digital Accessibility at University of Washington

Posted By Terrill Thompson 12-05-2023 09:37:00 AM
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The University of Washington (UW) is accepting applications for Director of Digital Accessibility. This is Sheryl Burgstahler's position, who is retiring at the end of the month after 40 years of service. The person in this position will lead the university's digital accessibility program, a complex ...

Accessibility Developer position at University of Washington

Posted By Terrill Thompson 09-26-2023 01:46:00 PM
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Hi All, The University of Washington is seeking an Accessibility Developer to join our IT Accessibility Team! Interested? Please see the Accessibility Developer job description on the UW Jobs website. Cheers, Terrill ------------------------------ --- Terrill Thompson (he/him) Manager, IT Accessibility ...

RE: Accessibility Awards

Posted By Terrill Thompson 05-19-2023 03:57:51 PM
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There are goals for captioning. We've gamified that among YouTube channel owners and every chance we get we promote the members of "The 100% Club" so channel owners are inspired by their peers and motivated to caption all their videos so they can "join the club". The other awards were distributed via ...

Accessibility Awards

Posted By Terrill Thompson 05-19-2023 03:31:00 PM
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Hi All, I started this conversation back in January, and appreciate all the responses I received from folks on and off the list. I just wanted to share that this question ultimately led to a Digital Accessibility Awards event yesterday at the University of Washington - a huge success! I just published ...

RE: Open captions: Does this enhance learning and boost accessibility?

Posted By Terrill Thompson 03-29-2023 03:12:50 PM
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Adding to Karen's list of advantages of using closed captions: In supporting media players, users can control the appearance of the caption text (e.g., change font size, foreground or background colors, transparency). With open captions, they have no such flexibility. Terrill --- Terrill Thompson ...

RE: Making Crossword Puzzle Accessible to Blind Student

Posted By Terrill Thompson 02-10-2023 10:38:29 AM
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Eric, I'm impressed with that H5P crossword! Thanks for sharing. I just completed it with JAWS. I like that it offers two ways of working the puzzle - you can either work within the grid itself, or answer the questions directly in the sidebar form. They clearly have put some thought into how to make ...

RE: URL for Digital Accessibility Office?

Posted By Terrill Thompson 01-25-2023 06:07:25 PM
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I'm curious: Is anyone using "a11y" in their URL? It's short and sweet, implies digital accessibility since that's how it's typically used, doesn't require users to correctly spell "accessibility" (or is it accessability?), and doesn't include any hyphens. We aren't currently using this at the UW but ...

Updating Risk Statements and Evidence

Posted By Terrill Thompson 01-12-2023 06:47:00 AM
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Hi All, Has there been any recent discussion of updating the EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Risk Statements and Evidence publication? We've found this to be an extremely useful resource for communicating with people who are motivated by risk. However, with a 2015 publication date it's starting to lose some ...

Accessibility Awards

Posted By Terrill Thompson 01-05-2023 11:28:00 AM
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Hi All, Does anyone offer awards at your institutions to individuals or departments who do good work on IT accessibility? If so, do you mind sharing the details? We're considering organizing an annual Accessibility Awards event, and are contemplating what the specific awards might be. We might have ...

Accessing Higher Ground early bird registration ends Monday 9/12

Posted By Terrill Thompson 09-09-2022 12:35:56 PM
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Every few years, EDUCAUSE and Accessing Higher Ground (my two favorite conferences) are both in Denver in the fall. In the past, they've been scheduled for consecutive weeks, which makes it feasible to attend both (bridged by a weekend in the mountains). This year they're a couple of weeks apart. I'll ...

RE: HHS, OCR, and DOJ

Posted By Terrill Thompson 09-09-2022 10:17:25 AM
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Vanessa, Thanks for that excellent explanation. Hopefully the amended 504 regs from HHS and ED will be in harmony with one another. As a university with a med school, I think we'll need to be compliant with both. Regards, Terrill ------------------------------ Terrill Thompson Manager, IT Accessibility ...

HHS, OCR, and DOJ

Posted By Terrill Thompson 09-07-2022 12:49:18 PM
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Hi All, In today's Community Group meeting, I think I understood the presenters to say that both HHS and OCR had expressed an intent to amend the Section 504 regulations to address (among other things) digital accessibility. That's in addition to the DOJ expressing a similar intent for updating the ...

RE: New more usable version of the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices website is now available!

Posted By Terrill Thompson 05-20-2022 10:11:39 AM
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Ah, that's a good tip. I hadn't tried the "Index". Thanks, Jon and JaEun, for your prompt responses! --- Terrill Thompson Manager, IT Accessibility Team UW-IT Accessible Technology Services University of Washington tft@uw.edu

RE: New more usable version of the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices website is now available!

Posted By Terrill Thompson 05-20-2022 09:28:50 AM
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Hi Jon, I like the clean, simple interface of the new site. It's much less overwhelming for someone who's entering it for the first time. It would be great though if it could include a Search feature. A couple of use cases: I'm pretty sure APG v 1.1 included a calendar widget as an example. I'm ...

RE: Word Accessibility - Bold/Italic vs Strong/Emphasis

Posted By Terrill Thompson 02-14-2022 09:44:04 AM
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Hi All, The idea behind using and rather than and is that the former are semantic elements (they convey meaning about the importance of the content), whereas the latter are presentational elements (they tell browsers how content should be visually displayed). It's a good idea to use semantic ...