California State University, Los Angeles
Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI)
Presentation to the Academic Senate
May 22, 2007
Overview
Presentation Overview
Anthony Ross, Vice President
Student Affairs
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Overview
Presentation Outline
• Background/Timelines
– Anthony Ross
• Instructional Materials Accessibility
– Mary Falvey and Ramakrishnan Menon
• Web Accessibility Implementation
– Gayle Burns and Robert Stark
• Accessible Electronic and Information Technology
Procurement (E&IT)
– Thomas Johnson
• Summary
– Peter Quan
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Background
• Background - CSU
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Office for Civil Rights Actions
Launched by the CSU January 2005
President’s campus-wide memo March 27, 2007
ATI incorporates:
• Vision: To create a culture of access for an inclusive learning
and working environment.
• Mission: To help CSU campuses in carrying out EO926 by
developing guidelines, implementation strategies, tools and
resources.
• Principle: To apply universal design, an approach to the
design of products and services to be usable by the greatest
number of people including individuals with disabilities.
• Strategy: To stimulate collaboration to effect changes that
will ultimately benefit all.
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Background
• Executive Orders & Coded Memoranda
• Executive Order 926 (EO 926), the CSU Board of Trustees
Policy on Disability Support and Accommodations:
– "It is the policy of the CSU to make information technology
resources and services accessible to all CSU students, faculty,
staff and the general public regardless of disability.“
January 1, 2005, www.calstate.edu/eo/EO-926.html
• Coded Memos AA 2006-41, AA-2007-04:
– “Access to Electronic and Information Technology for Persons
with Disabilities”
http://www.calstate.edu/acadAff/codedmemos/AA-2007-04.pdf
• Unfunded
• Campuses must use existing resources
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Background
• Background – Legislative
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Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act (Federal)
• “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States …shall be excluded from
the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any
program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”
http://ericec.org/sect504.html
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 (Federal)
• Provides a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination
against individuals with disabilities
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt
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Section 508 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act (1998) (Federal)
• Applies accessibility standards to procurement and development of electronic and information
technologies by federal government agencies
www.section508.gov
California Education Code § 67302 (AB 422) (1999) (State)
• Requires publishers to provide e-text to eligible students with print-related disabilities
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/99-00/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_422_bill_19990915_chaptered.html
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SB 105 (Burton), 2002 (State)
• Applies section 508 of the federal Rehabilitation Act to state governmental entities regarding
accessibility of electronic and information technology
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_105_bill_20020929_chaptered.html
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SB 302 (Kuehl), 2003 (State)
• Applies Section 508 to the CSU and codified in California Government Code 11135 (effective
January 2004)
http://www.spb.ca.gov/civilrights/documents/CALIFORNIA_CODES_11.pdf
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Background
• CSU Accessible Technology Initiative
– Three Implementation Priorities
Web Accessibility
Instructional Materials
Accessibility
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Procurement of Accessible
E&IT
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Steering Committee
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Peter Quan, Vice President
Information Technology Services
Anthony Ross, Vice President
Student Affairs
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Steering Committee
• ATI Steering Committee
– Peter Quan, Vice President, Information Technology Services /Chief
Technology Officer (co-chair)
– Anthony Ross, Vice President, Student Affairs (co-chair)
– Claudia Aguilera, Representative of the President’s Advisory Committee
on Services for Students with Disabilities
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Joseph Aguirre, Executive Director, University-Student Union
Kevin Baaske, Chair, Academic Senate
Gayle Burns, Director, eLearning Programs and Support (eLPS)
Gonzalo Centeno, Disability Management Specialist, Office for Students
with Disabilities, Unit 4 Representative
– Mary Falvey, Dean, Charter College of Education
– Monica Jazzabi, Physician, Student Health Center, Unit 1 Representative
– Patty Higuchi, Director, Administrative Technology and Support Services
– Thomas Johnson, Director, Procurement and Contracts
– Alice Kawakami, University Librarian
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Steering Committee
• ATI Steering Committee (cont’d)
– Ethan Lipton, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs - Planning &
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Resources, and Dean, Educational Support Services
Raul Lopez, University Police, Unit 8 Representative
Ramakrishnan Menon, Director, Faculty Development & Pedagogical
Support
Joaquin Nabarrete, Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) President
Roger Nunez, Electrician, Facilities Services, Unit 6 Representative
David Peterson, Executive Committee of the Academic Senate
Designee
Lisa Sanchez, Director, Human Resources Management
Robert Stark, Acting Director, CMS and Enterprise Systems
Beatriz Varela, ASI Graduate Student Designee
Tomas Vasquez, Director, OSD and DSSS - Office for Students with
Disabilities
Michelle Villanueva, Administrative Coordinator, University Testing
Center, Units 2, 5, 7 & 9 Representative
To be named, ASI Undergraduate Student Designee
To be named, Unit 3 Representative
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Steering Committee
• Charge
– Oversee campus implementation of CSU Accessible
Technology Initiative
– Close coordination and strong linkages between
working groups
• Three working groups for top three priorities
– Review and approve campus submissions to the
Chancellor’s Office
• Structure
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Executive sponsors
Working group chairs/co-chairs
Campus representatives
Bi-weekly meetings
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Timeline
• Five Year Plan
• Year One: 2006-07
• Planning & Policy Development
• Training & Building Capacity
• Self-Evaluation & Transition Plan
• Year Two: 2007-08
• Implementation
• Integration of accessibility in existing processes
• Year Three: 2008-09
• Implementation
• Assessment
• Continuous Improvement
• Years Four and Five: 2009-2011
• Progress Reports
• Final Reports: 2012
• Full compliance and final assessments
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Instructional Materials (IM)
Instructional Materials Work Group
Mary Falvey, Dean
Charter College of Education
Ramakrishnan Menon, Director
Faculty Development & Pedagogical Support
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Instructional Materials (IM)
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Instructional Materials Work Group
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Mary Falvey, Dean, Charter College of Education (co-chair)
Ramakrishnan Menon, Director, Faculty Development & Pedagogical Support (co-chair)
Gayle Burns, Director, eLearning Programs and Support
Colin Campbell, Manager, Desktop Services
Lena Chao, Communication Studies Department, Arts and Letters
Karin Elliot-Brown, School of Social Work, Health and Human Services
Diane Fazzi, Division of Special Education & Counseling, Charter College of Education
Catherine Haras, Information Literacy Coordinator
Ed Hsieh, Economics and Statistics Business and Economics
Joanna Jimenez, ASI Undergraduate Student Designee
Nadine Koch, Associate Dean, Natural and Social Sciences
Philip LaPolt, Faculty Policy Committee Chair or Designee
Maj Mirmirani, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology
Tamar Semerjian, Educational Policy Committee Chair or Designee
Randall Silverston, Representative from Office for Student with Disabilities (OSD)
Chisa Uyeki, Student Policy Committee Chair or Designee
Beatrice Yorker, Representative of the President’s Advisory Committee on Services for
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To be named, ASI Graduate Student Designee
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Instructional Materials (IM)
• Goals
– Considered to be forms of communication
– Must be equally effective for persons with disabilities
– Equally effective means:
• Comparable in quality to those received by students without
disabilities
• Comparable in timeliness of delivery and availability
• Provided in a manner and medium appropriate to the
significance of the message and the abilities of the person
receiving the material
• Providing universal design access
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Instructional Materials (IM)
• Milestones and Deliverables - IM and Instructional
Websites
• Draft Instructional Materials Accessibility Plan
• Final Instructional Materials Accessibility Plan
June 1, 2007
October 15, 2007
• Implement provisions for print-based instructional
materials
Dec. 1, 2007
• Year 2 Progress Report
June 1, 2008
• Milestone: Instructional materials for new course
offerings must be accessible or an equally effective
alternative form of access be provided
Fall, 2008
• Year 3 Progress Report
June 1, 2009
• Milestone: All Instructional materials and instructional
web content for all course offerings must be accessible or
an equally effective alternate form of access be provided
Fall, 2012
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Instructional Materials (IM)
• Implications
– Adoption of Instructional Materials in time to be made
accessible by first day of class
• Including late hire faculty
• New ordering process
– Text and non-text
– Early identification of students needing
accommodation
– Identification of available resources (e.g. CAM;
www.whywaitforbooks.com)
– Accessible postings (e.g. of syllabi, etc., on WebCT)
– Accessible E&IT purchasing requirements
– Awareness/Training
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Web Accessibility
Web Accessibility Work Group
Gayle Burns, Director
eLearning Programs and Support
Robert Stark, Acting Director
CMS and Enterprise Systems
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Web Accessibility
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Web Accessibility Work Group
– Gayle Burns, Director, eLearning Programs and Support (co-chair)
– Robert Stark, Acting Director, CMS and Enterprise Systems (co-chair)
– Dwan Bridges, Representative of the President’s Advisory Committee on Services for Students
with Disabilities
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Martin Brodwin, Division of Special Education and Counseling, Senate Designee
Nicolas Deantoni, ASI Graduate Student Designee
Patty Higuchi, Director, Administrative Technology and Support Services
Chris Kaufman, Assistant Director, Internet Technology
Nancy Miron, Executive Director Public Affairs - Office of Public Affairs
David Segall, ASI Undergraduate Student Designee
Federico Vargas, Equity & Diversity Specialist, Human Resources Management
Nancy Warter-Perez, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Senate Designee
Phillip White, Coordinator Adaptive Technology Learning Center - Office for Students with
Disabilities
– Holly Yu, Library Web Administrator and Academic Information Resources Sub-committee
Designee
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Web Accessibility
• Goals
– Ensure accessibility of all CSULA websites, web
content and web applications
– Institute application of universal design principles
• Websites, web applications, and web content usable by
persons who may be using assistive technologies.
• Universal Design: The design of products and environments
to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible,
without the need for adaptation or specialized design.
– Establish campus-wide process
• Web evaluation and monitoring
• Well-defined standards and implementation procedures.
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Web Accessibility
• Milestones and Deliverables - Web Accessibility
Campus President’s Accessibility Statement
March 30, 2007
 First Year ATI Web Accessibility Project
May 1, 2007
• First Year Web Report
June 1, 2007
• Milestone: Administrative sites that are critical to
institutional access must be compliant or an equally effective
alternative form of access must be provided
May 15, 2008
• Year 2 Progress Report
June 1, 2008
• Milestone: Remaining critical administrative sites identified
in the Transition Plan must be compliant or an equally
effective alternative form of access must be provided
May 15, 2009
• Year 3 Report
June 1, 2009
• Milestone: All websites at the CSU must be fully compliant
with Section 508 (or a stricter, future W3C standard) or an
equally effective alternative form of access must be provided
June 1, 2012
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Web Accessibility
• Implications
– All websites must pass automated and manual
evaluation against compliance standards
• Existing sites must be remediated
• New sites must pass before being put on-line
– On-going reviews for ensuring compliance and
changes
• Non-compliant sites must be remediated or may be
suspended
– All websites will have a designee responsible for
maintenance and remediation
• Department and college responsibility
– Awareness/Training
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E&IT Procurement
Procurement Work Group
Thomas Johnson
Director, Procurement and Contracts
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E&IT Procurement
• Procurement Work Group
– Thomas Johnson, Director, Procurement and Contracts (chair)
– Colin Campbell, Manager, Desktop Services
– Jeff Cheam, Director, Educational Technology Support - Educational Support Services
– Kevin Chua, ITC, Student Affairs
– Raymond Garcia, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural and Social
Sciences
– Patricia Higuchi, Director, Administrative Technology & Support Services
– Nancy Kudo-Hombo, Director, ITS Financial and Support Services
– Greg Kunkel, Accounting Department, College of Business and Economics
– Jorge Lomeli, Assistant Director, Administrative Technology
– Charles Mallory, Acting Director, Operations and Access Management
– Tina Mueller, Lead Buyer II - Procurement and Contracts
– Matthew Warren, Fiscal Resource Manager, Student Affairs
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E&IT Procurement
• Procurement Goals
– Apply accessibility standards published by the U.S. Access
Board
– Comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
– All electronic and information technology (E&IT) products and
services
• Buy, create, use and/or maintain
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Telecommunication products, such as telephones;
Information kiosks
Transaction machines
World Wide Web sites
Software and Operating Systems
Computers
Multimedia (including videotapes)
Office equipment (such as copiers and fax machines)
Any equipment or system that is used in the creation, conversion, or
duplication of data or information
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E&IT Procurement
• Milestones and Deliverables - E&IT Procurement
• Accessible E&IT Procurement Procedures
July 28, 2007
• Implement campus-based Accessible E&IT
Procurement for formal bidding.
September 1, 2007
•Year 2 Progress Report
August 1, 2008
• Implement campus-based Accessible E&IT
Procurement for all purchases except credit cards
September 1, 2008
•Year 3 Progress Report
August 1, 2009
• Implement campus-based Accessible E&IT
Procurement for credit cards purchases
TBD
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E&IT Procurement
• Implications
– Compliance is the primary selection factor
• Must be compliant AND useable
– University must verify compliance
– Verification may extend procurement process
• Additional lead time for ordering will be needed
– Vendor certification does not guarantee compliance
• Cannot rely on vendor or other third party certifications
• University remains primarily responsible for compliance
– Proposed CSU ATI Testing Center and database
– A best effort to achieve compliance must be documented
– Awareness/Training
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Summary
Summary
Peter Quan, Vice President
Information Technology Services
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Summary
• Status
– On target
 Established meeting schedules
 President’s statement issued March 28, 2007
• First year plans and reports in draft
– Upcoming deadlines
• June 1: Web Accessibility First Year Report
• June 1: Draft Instructional Materials Accessibility Plan (IMAP)
• July 28: Draft Accessible E&IT Procurement Implementation
Plan
• Additional activities
– System-wide Communities of Practice
• Conference calls
• Email discussion lists
• Blackboard site
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Summary
• Web Accessibility
– All websites, new and existing, must pass compliance standards
– Websites will be reviewed and suspended if not compliant
– Departments and colleges responsible for maintenance and remediation
• Instructional Materials
– Adoption in time to be made accessible by first day of class
• Courses with late-hire faculty not exempt
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Text and non-text
Earlier identification of students needing accommodation
Identification of resources (e.g. CAM; www.whywaitforbooks.com)
Postings of syllabi, etc., must be compliant
Accessible E&IT purchasing requirements
• Procurement of Accessible E&IT
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Compliance is the primary selection factor
University must verify compliance
Procurement process may be extended
Vendor certification does not guarantee compliance, the University
remains responsible
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Summary
• No longer “reasonable accommodation”
(ADA)
• Now “comparable” and “equally
effective” (Sec. 508 & 504 Rehabilitation
Act of 1973)
• Training is necessary
– Functional
– Awareness
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Accessible Technology Initiative
“…it is important to note that we must make
provisions for accessibility before we are
requested to do so. CSULA must comply with
these laws, but even more, we recognize that
our real goal, as stated in EO 926, is ‘to make
information technology resources and services
accessible to all CSU students, faculty, staff and
the general public regardless of disability.’ It is,
simply, the right thing to do.”
President James M. Rosser
March 27, 2007
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Accessible Technology Initiative
Questions?
http://www.calstatela.edu/ATI/
http://www.calstate.edu/accessibility/
ATI@calstatela.edu
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