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Online Accessibility at Westfield State University “Technology is most powerful when it empowers everyone”

Hello! My name is Kevin Marafuga ◉ Attended Westfield State for 1 year ◉ Majoring in CIS with an interest in Cyber Security ◉ Started working for the Center of Instructional Technology as an Accessibility Technician in Fall 2018 ◉ CIT Supports online Learning and Blackboard at

Hello! My name is Jairo Villalona ◉ Graduated from Westfield State in Spring 2018 ◉ Majored in Chemistry ◉ Worked at CIT for 6 years, and was a technician for one semester

What does Accessibility mean? The Department of Justice (DOJ) published the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design in September 2010. These standards state that all electronic and information technology must be accessible to people with disabilities “

What does Accessibility mean? Hearing Disabilities Vision Disabilities

What does Accessibility mean? ◉ Videos have Accurate Captions ◉ Sound Files have an Accurate Transcript ◉ Images have Alt Text ◉ PDF’s have Text Recognition ◉ Web Links are renamed to be readable

The First Process Weekly emails sent out to Professors ◉ Emailed professors, requesting content in their course that needs to be made accessible ◉ Then we would go in and make the content accessible ◉ Focused a lot with email communication One big problem…

Professors Don’t Know what to look for! ADA Compliant? ◉ Whole new skill ◉ Professors are content experts not ADA Technicians ◉ Waste of their time ◉ They are encouraged to provide image Alt Text

Current Process Weekly emails sent out to Professors ◉ ADA Technicians are added into professors courses ◉ Work on courses a week ahead of the semester ◉ Send professors weekly emails every Friday

◉ Videos  YouTube  Vimeo ◉ Microsoft Office Programs Content  PowerPoint Made  Word Acc ccessible on  Outlook th the Dail ily  Excel ◉ PDFs ◉ Audio Files ◉ Voiceover PowerPoint ◉ VoiceThread

Online Resources Name Location Purpose Keep track of professors courses and log materials that were made Google Spreadsheet https://drive.google.com accessible Make audio files and videos REV Rev.com accessible Stores and streams videos used in Ensemble/Pipeline https://pipeline.westfield.ma.edu professors classes https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/ Download videos from YouTube so YouTube to mp4 or search on google: “YouTube to mp4” they can be uploaded to Ensemble Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Installed on laptops in CIT Lab Make PDFs Accessible

Videos and Mp3 Files Visual Process for Videos and Sound Files

PDFs and Microsoft Looking for ◉ Videos ◉ Images ◉ Audio Files (.mp3) ◉ Web Links ◉ Contrast Ratio

Thank You!