Overview
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Location
- Science and Engineering Library (SEL)
- Room 090 (basement)
- 175 W. 18th Ave.
- The Ohio State University
- Columbus, Ohio
- Campus Map showing location of Science and Engineering Library
Goal
This year's conference is convened in order for Big Ten Plus institutions IT stakeholders to share their experiences in offering resources and services to people with disabilities and to identify areas that would benefit from inter-institutional collaboration.
Workshop Objectives
- Administration: Allocation of resources, hiring of staff with specialized skills, organization of training, dissemination of information, collaboration within and between institutions. Tactics in presentation and message in dissemination of information on accessibility. Development of purchasing and deployment policies and requirements.
- Training: Developing training resources for service providers, students and IT developers.
- Collaboration: Creation of common technology standards and development best practices for influencing third-party vendors and sharing strategies for remediation of systems via inter-institutional consortiums.
Agenda
(Updated on 5/30/2006)
Monday, June 19th
NOTE: 10:00am Pre-Workshop Presentation by IBM on ViaScribe Technology
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided by OSU)
- Welcome to workshop (Scott Lissner, OSU ADA Coordinator)
- 1:00-2:40 Current Web Accessibility Practices and the Legal Issues
- Presentation on current IT accessibility, Charmane Corcoran, MSU
- Excel Spreadsheet of survey results, Charmane Corcoran, MSU
- Presentation on the Legal Aspects of IT Accessibility, Scott Lissner, OSU
- 2:40-2:55 Break
- 2:55-5:00 IT Accessibility Administration Panel Discussion (Moderator: Jon Gunderson)
- Personnel (20 minutes)
- Departments and units (20 minutes)
- Policies (20 minutes)
- Policy Compliance(20 minutes)
- Resources (20 minutes)
- Purchasing Requirements (20 minutes)
- Panelists
- Christian Vinten-Johansen (Penn State)
- Margaret Londergan (Indiana University)
- Joe Humbert (Purdue)
- Chris Clark (University of Iowa)
- Scott Lissner (OSU)
- Charmane Corcoran (MSU)
- Sue Lewis (UIUC)
- 6:30 Dinner at local restaurant
Tuesday, June 20th
- 8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
- 8:30-9:30 Designing for Accessibility: WebCT
- Presentors: Jon Gunderson and Hadi Bargi Rangin
- 9:30-10:00 Course Management Systems Consortiums
- WebCT
- Blackboard
- Desire to Learn
- Others
- 10:00-10:10 Break
- 10:10-10:40 Administration Management System Consortiums
- PeopleSoft
- SCT Banner
- Others
- 10:40-10:50 Break
- 10:50-11:10 Consortiums Discussion
- Each group presents their plan to improve accessibility
- 11:10-12:00 Planning the next Big Ten Plus IT Accessibility Workshop/Meetings
- Dates for next workshop
- Hosting the next workshop
- Coordination between workshops
- Coordination with ATHEN and WebAIM
- Becoming a CIC Group
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided by OSU)
- 1:00-2:30 Library Accessibility (Hadi Bargi Rangin)
- Accessible library materials
- Accessible databases
- Digital libraries and archives
- 1:00-2:30 Web Best Practices (Jon Gunderson)
- Technique development
- Tools
- Training
- DHTML and AJAX
- 2:30-2:45 Break
- 2:45-3:30 Training Resources
- Disability service professional development
- Training support for people with disabilities in use of AT
- Training IT developers in accessible design
- Raising awareness of administrators
- 3:30 End of workshop