7/21/2020: 9:15am
Goal for Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Education TAMUCC
Create a more inclusive digital academic environment
- Culture of Awareness and support
- Positive and open mindset
Strategy for Success
Foundation
- finding stakeholders and partnerships
- Departments (disability service office, HR, faculty excellence, and others)
- Governance (support from administration, faculty senate, committees, SGA)
Discovering strategy and vision
- learning the lessons (technically ready, but buy-in and culture wasn’t there)
- moving forward (training, support, accessibility website)
- building awareness
- Digital accessibility day (content remediation)
- one-on-ones with IDs/Trainers
- Accessibility simulation lab
Making Strides by Empowering Faculty
Engagement, professional development and embracing the current situation.
- Community of Practice
Talking about UDL, accessibility standards and introducing Bb Ally. - Leveraging Quality Assurance
- Effective Communication
- Supporting the Transition
Ally turned on for all courses – Communication around Ally went out via Dept newsletter, faculty advocate and other communication resources, Bb Org, Certification etc…
Worked Students into communications – alternate formats (from department, training resources and instructors)
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