MEETING NOTES - Accessible Technology Work Group

Date: January 8, 2018 Location: TAC 129

Present: Carrie Powell, Paula Rhoads, Amanda Haines, Anita Honaker, Julie Huss

OLD BUSINESS

Julie & Carrie presented to Institutional Effectiveness last March. On April 6, 2017 IE approved the revised versions of both policy and plan:
- Policy 188 Overview - handout
- Centralia College’s Accessibility Policy & Plan - handout

Procurement processes with accessible technology in mind:
- Conversation with Bonnie 8/2/17 re: purchasing - all IT products are approved through IT department before going to purchasing.
- Link to Accessible Purchasing contract language from Temple University

NEW BUSINESS

Report out from Policy 188 summit at University of Washington on January 11^th on improving the accessibility of IT developed and procured by WA colleges and universities.
- Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) – example
- Student membership on work groups
SBCTC’s Committee for Accessible Technology Oversight (CATO)
- Accessibility Compliance Tracker (ACT) developed by Whatcom
  - Modify existing tracker to be available for all SBCTC schools as a collaborative software tracking tool. Estimated rollout summer 2018. Shared version will compatible with the 8 schools who are already using the tracker. Any college not using the tracker could bulk upload their software inventories. SBCTC and Whatcom currently discussing cost model.
- CATO is investigating 3^rd party testers and trusted tester platforms. Easy to find web testing software, difficult for desktop applications. UW, SBCTC having conversations with EDUCAUSE Center for Research & Analysis about sharing, collaboration, testing networks.
Ward Naf’s offer to visit Centralia
- Offer to help with Accessibility tracker or just talk shop with IT – has a personal interest in Centralia
  - Vision Australia “Blindness. Low Vision. Opportunity” - free add-in to Word: Document Accessibility Toolbar (DAT)
- Centralia College accessibility to date
  - Ally diagnostic app in Canvas - pilot concluded last spring & Centralia has joined state contract.
  - Website update – all content creators will have mandatory training that includes accessibility component.
  - Accessibility Heroes will be updated for fall 2017-winter 2018.

All of this info resides in the Canvas course and would benefit from a presence on myCC.

ACTION ITEMS:

Amanda will investigate adding the Policy and Plan to the "Disclaimer" portion of the current website.
Carrie will talk to Janet about location of Accessible Technology Work Group page in myCC.
Anita will follow up with IT team on the Compliance Tracker implementation.
Julie will see if the LawRoom online training package includes accessibility awareness training.
Carrie will speak to Shelley Bannish about adding a student to the Accessibility Work Group.
Carrie will submit a helpdesk ticket to get the "DAT" toolbar added to MS Word on one computer for testing.

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