Overview
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Date
June 20th and 21st, 2007
Registration
Cost: $100 Registration Fee
Register for CIC IT Accessiblity and Usability 2007 Workshop
Location
- Osher Life-long Learning Institute (OLLI)
- McNamara Alumni Center
- Room 235
- 200 Oak Street SE
- Minneapolis, MN 55455-2002
- Map to McNamara Alumi Center
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.
Tenative Agenda
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
- 8:00am Registration
- 9:00am Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Steve Cawley, University of Minnesota Vice President, CIO and Chair of the CIC
- Dr. Rusty Barceló, Vice President and Vice Provost, Office for Equity and Diversity
- 9:45am CIC Member updates and project overviews
- 5 minutes from each university to highlight past year activities and plans for the next year.
- 10:30am Break
- 10:45am Usability Lab Tours
- 12:00pm Lunch
- 1:30pm Breakout Sessions
- Session A: Web Accessibility Making the case to Administors and Managers
- Phil Kragnes (Minnesota), Moderator
- Christian Johanson(PSU)
- Hadi Bargi Rangin (UIUC)
- Kevin Price (UIC)
- Session B: Purchasing Policies
- Jon Gunderson (UIUC), Moderator
- Charmane Corcoran (MSU)
- Margret Londgren (Indiana)
- Karen Triplet (Minnesota)
- Ken Petri (OSU)
- 2:45pm Break
- 3:15pm Breakout Sessions
- Session A: Learning Management System Accessibility
- Hadi Bargi Rangin (UIUC), Moderator
- Ken Petri (OSU)
- Phil Kragnes (Minnesota)
- Session B: Captioning and Sign-Language Interpreting (Mari Maglar, UM)
- Scott Marshall (Minnesota), Moderator
- Angie Anderson (UIUC)
- Margret Londgren (Indiana)
- 4:30 Review day 1 action items
- 6:30 Dinner at local restaurant: Old Spaghetti Factory
Thursday, 21 June 2007
- 8:00am Continental Breakfast
- 9:00am Breakout Sessions
- Session A: Bibliographic and other library systems
- Hadi Bargi Rangin (UIUC), Moderator
- Jon Gunderson (UIUC)
- Ken Petri (OSU)
- Session B: Document Conversion: Trends and Techniques
- Margret Londgren (Indiana), Moderator
- Angie Anderson (UIUC)
- Sheen Hua (Minnesota)
- Mike Venzon (Iowa)
- 10:30am Break
- 10:45am Disability Services Tour
- 12:00pm Lunch
- 1:30pm Breakout Sessions
- Session A: Disability Services Providers
- Bryan McMurray (UIUC), Moderator
- Mike Venzon (Iowa)
- Session B: Web Accessibility Policy and Conformance (Jon Gunderson, UIUC)
- Jon Gunderson (UIUC), Moderator
- Charmane Corcoran (MSU)
- Ken Petri (OSU)
- Philip Kragnes (Minn)
- Margret Londgren (Indiana)
- Christian Johnason (PSU)
- 2:45pm Break
- 3:00pm Future planing
- Governence a working group
- Future topics of interest
- 4:00pm review action items