[CATO] [EXTERNAL] - Title II High-Level Work Plan Template

[Hayman, Douglass]

Andy,

That looks like a good starting point.  I could imagine putting in some concrete examples for people to wrap their head around how something might be implemented.

One idea I was going to toss in to the conversation yesterday but time ran out is along these lines to make it understandable to those not so involved with accessibility efforts as we are:

Take PDF files that are not tagged for accessibility or, still need tweaking on the current tags for proper heading structure, alt text, link text and such.

I can look up with Siteimprove that we have several hundred of them, roughly 460, on our web site.  I could go one by one and remediate those that are still in use and not destined for the archival content exemption the new ADA title II offers as relief.  But just as I finish doing that (or jobbing them out to a third party firm) on looking again, I find even more have been added to our web site.  We need to stop new, inaccessible PDFs from getting added.

A parallel comes to mind of looking out my office window and seeing litter (inaccessible content) on the lawns and parking lot (our web site) and going out with trash bag in hand to clean up the mess.  On returning to campus the following week, I look out the window and see new litter strewn about.  My one-person effort to clean things up is likely to fail if enough people keep adding new “ trash” in the form of inaccessible PDFs.

It is the fire fighting and fire prevention endeavor.  We need to do both but I think that many of us in accessibility work aren’t seeing much fire prevention work going on by others.

Finally, we need to clearly delineate what it is that SBCTC does versus what each of our colleges do.  On starting at Olympic and taking part early on in CATO meetings there was a learning curve, especially around the topic of ctcLink (PeopleSoft).

ctcLink is a grey zone where everybody has to use it at their individual college and accessibility issues exist.  We have to direct our found issues to the SBCTC team (Christopher and others) and they are the ones who have to clearly document it for Oracle to then work on solutions.  We cannot contact Oracle directly and yet if OCR comes down on our individual college for it being inaccessible, we’re on the hook.

With other software we get a group discount for as part of a collective of colleges, I think we’re able to directly reach out to the third-party vendor, which might be Panopto.   I had dealings with them while at UW, some productive and some utterly frustrating.

Wherever we can get accessibility improvements from our third-party vendors it’ll make for a better educational experience for the students we serve.


Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
dhayman at olympic.edu<mailto:dhayman at olympic.edu>
(360) 475-7632



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Good Morning CATO!

In our meeting yesterday I talked about the possibility of us developing a work plan template for the system and Monica asked if I had a specific template in mind. I didn't have a specific template, but I did ask ChatGPT to help develop something. 🙂

The attached is very high-level but detail could be added to make it more useful. Just wanted to put this out there to get some feedback.

Thanks,


Andy Duckworth (he|him)

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