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These days it is very difficult to find any services at universities that are not offered electronically. In deed, most services which were done for decades in the traditional pen and paper format are now only offered via the web. These services include course registration, financial aid information, time-sheet information, academic record information, and many more services. While the online services can be very convenient for the campus community in particular for students, at the same time, it blocks out most disabled members of our community from such services; in particular for those services that are offered only online such as financial aid information.
At the University of Illinois a product called SCT Banner developed by Sunguard Higher Education (SHE) is used for many online services. SCT Banner comes as a kind of baseline product and universities build additional modules on top of the baseline product either by local campus developers or by SunGuard base on the needs of the educational institutions.
SCT Banner with the current settings used at University of Illinois has serious accessibility problems and we have been working with the AITS department that is in charge of developing custom modules for UIUC and maintaining it.
We have been working with our AITS department at three different sub-projects namely
- SCT Banner Self-service
This application allows campus community to view or modify selected information such as contact information, info about the academic record, infor about the financial aid, time-sheet, and many more services. - SCT Banner Enterprise
This is another big application geared toward administrative services for employees. - SCT Banner Accessibility Information
This is a small site which provides relevant accessibility related information that can be very helpful for users with disabilities.
Open Action Items
- Service Request
- person Responsible: Pat Tuchman
- Status: Scheduled for 03/07/2007
- Status: Scheduled for 03/07/2007
- Detailed discussion on reported accessibility problems with SCT Banner Self-service (2nd review)
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin, Shawn Lee, Becky Mcnaught
- Status: Completed on 12/11/2006
- Accessibility issues recorded in AITS bug tracking system based on Hadi's report
- Person responsible: Shawn Lee
- Status: completed on 12/11/2006
- Contact peer counterpartner at UIC and UIS
- Person responsible: Becky McNaught
- Status: In progress
- Accessibility issues recorded in AITS bug tracking system based on Hadi's report (update 2)
- person responsible: Becky Mcnaught
- Status: Completed on 01/17/2007
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