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Welcome to the IT Accessibility Community Group!

Programs, services, and resources at universities and colleges continue to expand exponentially, and delivery methods have become increasingly technology-centric. Unless these technologies are designed and deployed to support the access needs of all users, including those with disabilities, universities and colleges risk excluding qualified students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders.

The IT Accessibility Community Group will help the EDUCAUSE community to assess the scope of issues of IT accessibility, identify resources and initiatives, develop best practices on policy and assistive program and service development, and in general focus on how to approach campus-wide universal access to information available via technology by engaging in dialogue across boundaries within and beyond the campus environment. This group meets at the EDUCAUSE annual conference and online on the first Wednesday of the month (via Zoom, 1pm ET/10am PT; no meetings in January or July). The electronic discussion list via EDUCAUSE Connect hosts robust discussions of issues throughout the year and links to the monthly meetings.

Latest Discussions

  • Laura, I have found that auto captioning is not usually ADA compliant; we have auto captioning for our Zoom and Panopto services but if students need ADA compliantr captioning, we have our Student Disability ...

  • Has anyone had any experience with using stream to caption videos? Is it a workable solution for DHH students? Are the captions added directly to the video? Or is it just a caption track playing over the ...

  • Hello, On the topic of ChatGPT and accessibility, I've developed a custom GPT called the Wolverine Describer . If you are a ChatGPT Plus member you're welcome to try it out and use the output if it ...

  • Friends, I posted recently in a community (I think on EDUCAUSE, but it could've been IAAP) that a colleague of mine, Tony Weed, wrote a great blog post about prepping your ChatGPT for alt text. Alt-text ...

  • Yes I have! I purchased a license for ChatGPT 4 when it was first released and have been using the different GPT's available. The one that i love is "Image Braille". I find that if I ask for alt text up ...

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