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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
“Technology is most powerful when it empowers everyone”
◉ 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
◉ Graduated from Westfield State in Spring 2018 ◉ Majored in Chemistry ◉ Worked at CIT for 6 years, and was a technician for one semester
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?
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
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
ADA Compliant?
◉ Whole new skill ◉ Professors are content
experts not ADA Technicians
◉ Waste of their time ◉ They are encouraged to
provide image Alt Text
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
Content Made Acc ccessible on th the Dail ily
◉ Videos
◉ Microsoft Office Programs
◉ PDFs ◉ Audio Files ◉ Voiceover PowerPoint ◉ VoiceThread
Name Location Purpose Google Spreadsheet https://drive.google.com Keep track of professors courses and log materials that were made accessible REV Rev.com Make audio files and videos accessible Ensemble/Pipeline https://pipeline.westfield.ma.edu Stores and streams videos used in professors classes YouTube to mp4 https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/
Download videos from YouTube so they can be uploaded to Ensemble Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Installed on laptops in CIT Lab Make PDFs Accessible
◉ Videos ◉ Images ◉ Audio Files (.mp3) ◉ Web Links ◉ Contrast Ratio