[CATO] [EXTERNAL] - CATO Meeting Agenda for Tuesday, May 13

Tue May 13 13:48:06 PDT 2025

I’m so sorry to miss the meeting. I’m in the eLC today (and a Shoreline College Council meeting) at the same Time today.

Amy

Amy Rovner, MPH RD
Director eLearning Services
Accessible IT Coordinator
Shoreline Community College
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I’ve added this to today’s agenda; if we get time, lots to dig in to here!

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Hi Doug and CATO,

If we do not have time on today's agenda for this discussion, I propose we reserve at least an hour during the June CATO meeting for this topic.

I also encourage you to share your email below with the AT Coord email list serve too, and perhaps we can schedule a meeting just for this topic and document current strategies across the colleges.

The high-level items that I think can be addressed about course content (not retroactive remediation) are:

  1.  Does your college require faculty to complete any accessibility-related training? Micro-Courses, in-house, other, etc.

     *   Monica has an update about new state-wide accessibility courses available soon through DES.

  1.  Do faculty have a Course Accessibility Checklist to review and use when building their content? (This may come from Instructional Design/eLearning or the Accessible IT Coordinator.)

     *   I recommend using the WA Course Design Checklist from Alissa Sells at SBCTC. The checklist requirements have been mapped to WCAG. I have shared this in the past and can reshare with CATO.

  1.  Which colleges have successfully included accessibility requirements into their faculty contracts, and how can we scale this across the system?

     *   Looking at you, Michael H!

  1.  What oversight, if any, does administration have when it comes to the tools faculty Seclect to LTI into their course, free or otherwise?

     *   Monica has an update about a potential project at SBCTC with a testing partner, Anthro-Tech on 10 commonly used products in Canvas.

Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)

Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

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The power of the Web is in its universality.

Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

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Thanks for sending out, Doug! I would to support addressing this at an upcoming meeting.

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All,

Can we (begin to) discuss tomorrow or at a future CATO meeting the following:

How will we meet out obligation to make all course content accessible by April 2026?

  *   We currently make course content accessible in a reactive manner, responding only to accommodation requests.
  *   The reactive remediation work we do gets billed to our offices that serve students with disabilities.  How will we pay for making all course content accessible and when do we start charging this new magical budget?
  *   After April 2026 what will disability offices do that is distinct from the other campus departments making content and classroom environments accessible? [Before ADA title II we did A, now we do B.]

Background for me (Doug):  all of our instructional designers who had worked on making the reactive remediations are gone and I’ve been “asked” to help out, mostly with getting videos professionally captioned this quarter and likely this summer, which has included getting Canvas and Panopto Admin access.  With this new access that had been outside of my scope of work in IT Accessibility, I’m seeing lots of documents that are needing remediation, YouTube videos used that rely upon auto-generated captions, images with no ALT text and other structural issues.  Just trying to get the video captions sorted out has taken quite a lot of time.

We’d have to start now with instructors playing an active part to do the work on their own content.  There is no way I could go course by course and fix things in time if it was my only job.  And even if I did, would much of it be instructional content they are not actively using?   Would they be adding more at the last minute?

Will instructors say,

  *   “It isn’t in my contract so I’m not going to do that.”
  *   “I’m mid-quarter and cannot do that now.”
  *   “I’m off-contract during summer quarter and won’t be working.”
  *   “I’ll be too busy in the Fall to do that work.”

If we start as soon as possible and get everything done early (unlikely), then we can breathe a sigh of relief.  If we don’t get it all done by April 2026 but show a good faith effort towards that goal, we’d at least look better in the eyes of the legal world and will learn more about what it is going to take to succeed.

Doug Hayman

IT Accessibility Coordinator

Information Technology

Olympic College

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Hi CATO!

We have our monthly meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Meeting details are copied below, and you can now review the Meeting Agenda<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eoZ-i98zBJMknUweX3AO1ov8vrfMGan0DnutnCpPibE/edit?tab=t.0> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eoZ-i98zBJMknUweX3AO1ov8vrfMGan0DnutnCpPibE/edit?tab=t.0> as well.

CATO Meeting 05/13/2025

  *   Zoom Meeting Link<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88329568957?from=addon>
  *   Full Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88329568957?from=addon
  *   Meeting ID: 883 2956 8957
  *   2:30-4:00 pm
  *   Meeting Agenda<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eoZ-i98zBJMknUweX3AO1ov8vrfMGan0DnutnCpPibE/edit?tab=t.0>

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Accessibility is not a checkbox. Accessibility is a mindset that can lead to a very powerful sense of inclusion.

~ Maayan Ziv founder and CEO AccessNow

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