ATI Steering Committee Meeting Notes
October 10, 2014
Present:
G. Centeno, G. Garcia, A. Harwood, Pedro Diaz for T. Johnson; P. LaPolt, Michael O’Neal-Petterson
for K. Melick; P. Quan, T. Ross, I. Stansberry, S. Varela
Excused:
M. Peppers, R. Tran, N. Warter-Perez
Updates and Announcements
 Isis Stansberry is the new Unit 4 representative.
 Peter provided handouts from the CSU’s ATI professional development home and procurement
pages as well as the links to the pages:
Professional Development for Accessible Technology in the CSU
http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/access/index.html
CSU Accessible Procurement Process
http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/access/procurement_process/index.shtml
 There was discussion of the updated procurement 4-step process.
 Pedro indicated that the process has been reviewed and they working towards implementing those
changes.
ATI Audit Preliminary Findings:
 Pedro indicated the procurement work group met last Tuesday, and are working toward resolving
the issues from the audit. Some of the issues are how they will train and organize the ITCs to do
the reviews based on impact rather than 15k price.
 Gilbert will do the training to the other ITCs.
 We identified the individual who handles ADA-ATI related complaints and grievances as Mariel
Mulet during the preliminary audit questionnaire. She will be added to the steering committee
membership.
 Action item, we need to identify a section 508 compliance officer for the campus.
 Alex discussed the web portion. The core technical team from ITS has met and discussed the
issues. They will work with the subcommittee to beef up training around the upload of new
documents for compliance as well as migrating the ATI web site to the new Content Management
System (CMS), Drupal. Drupal helps in other areas of ATI and we have implemented those but not
for this one issue. However, there is the possibility of a search tool by Apache being able to solve
this but it’s not been fully vetted.
 Phil reported that Instructional Materials had no findings.
 Phil asked if the audit can be shared and it was confirmed by both Peter and Tony that it can be.
ATI Reports and Success Indicators
Peter discussed the need for an ATI Campus Plan (http://ati.calstate.edu/) for the year. There was general
agreement that the campus plan will be an aggregate of each subcommittee’s ATI plan. Each subcommittee needs
to provide measurable steps to achieve goals with detailed descriptions to identify what the subcommittees will
work on for the year. The success indicators that the working groups report on must match those of the steering
committee annual report.
Instructional Materials: Phil LaPolt met last week with the Instructional work group. The faculty was mostly out
for the summer. He asked when the report is due and Peter indicated 11/14 but we must have it prior
to that to get approval from the committee and President’s Cabinet. The President and Vice Presidents
must review and approve it especially with regard to any additional resource commitments. Phil
indicated his report should be ready next week for review/approval.
Phil went on to also discuss success indicators. They have begun the planning process and compared
what we are doing to the CSU and relative risk. When looking at the new success standards we are not
doing as well as we had been against the old indicators. The new indicators are significantly more
complicated. He is looking at a phased approach in talking to students and staff to identify areas of
greatest concern. The effort to comply with the new success indicators will be significant.
Peter suggests we target specific indicators and make that part of our annual implementation plan. We
can then document which indicators we are going to try to meet and why.
Web Accessibility: Alex gave the update for the web subcommittee for annual reporting and success indicators.
He provided the draft report that included increased communication and training to web owners, roll
out of compliance deputy and continued migration to the new CMS. He also provided information on
training for uploaded docs and accessibility and the migration of the ATI site to the new CMS. He
indicated he will meet with the larger work group on 10/15 to finalize this, and that he still needs reps
from ASI Grad and Undergrad and faculty from AL, ECST, CCOE and HHS.
Regarding success indicators he believes that it will be a challenge. In reviewing them the group will
need to determine what the approach will be. The work appears to be significant.
Peter indicated that WCAG 2.0 needs to be reviewed and presented to the steering committee. Tech
team is looking into it and has indicated that the CSU Check Points are based on them. So the
presentation will be about where they overlap and where they don’t. Also WCAG is not just a web
issues so likely other subcommittees also need to review and present.
Procurement: Pedro gave the update for procurement. The draft report is ready for review/approval. The
committee will review and provide feedback via email.
Regarding success indicators Pedro indicated that there will be significant work in that area to be
complaint, but they will get it done.
Peter asked about the Center for Accessible Media (CAM). Are we a member and did we participate in the
10/7/14 webinar? There are over 30,000 book titles available and a merger with Community College AMX data
base is in discussion. Phil asked if Faculty can get access as that would help them in determining which materials
to use. Gonzalo thinks it’s subsidized and will get back to committee about it.
Tony concluded the meeting asking if anything remaining for the good of the order. Note next meeting is 11/14
which is when the final report is due to the CO.
Juanita will be sending out reminders.