Accessibility at Cal Poly PomonaAbstracted from Coded Memorandum AA-2007-04.
New and updated administrative websites, web applications, and web content produced by the CSU or by third-party developers should, at a minimum, conform to baseline accessibility standards as defined in Section 508, Subpart B, and where appropriate, Subpart C (http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htm). This timeline applies only to administrative sites.
New courses and new course content, including instructional materials and instructional websites, will be designed and authored in a manner that incorporates accessibility. If incorporating accessibility is not possible or would constitute an undue burden, then a plan to provide an equally effective alternate form of access must be developed, documented, and communicated. Existing course content will be made accessible at the point of course redesign or when a student with a disability enrolls in the course.
All administrative sites that are critical to institutional access (as established in the Web Accessibility Implementation Plan) should, at a minimum, conform to baseline accessibility standards as defined in Section 508. If remediation or replacement of the website is not possible or would constitute an undue burden, then a plan to provide an equally effective alternate form of access must be developed, documented, and communicated.
All websites at the CSU should fully conform to Section 508. Once again, undue burden plan requirements (as described above) apply.
Instructional materials and instructional websites for all course offerings will be accessible. Once again, undue burden plan requirements (as described above) apply.
Abstracted from the Web Accessibility Implementation Plan. Grayed-out areas have not yet been implemented; most will be implemented by the end of Winter 2008.
Institutional sites will be monitored weekly with AccMonitor from Hiawatha Island Software. Reports will be made available on a public website, and monthly reports will be prepared using the workflow tool of the program. A process will be developed for sampled or rotating manual evaluations in addition to the automated monitoring. Email notices will be sent monthly to the site administrator (see below) of each site. It is the responsibility of the site administrator to remediate any pages that are out of compliance within 20 business days of the report showing the problem. If remediation has not occurred by that time, I&IT Web Development will remove public web access from those pages.
Instructional sites in the Blackboard learning management system, which is not available for public access, are not covered by this document.
Instructors are responsible for the accessibility of their public course web sites. To aid them in this,
I&IT Web Development will keep a list of public course sites for both monitoring and informational purposes. Instructors will be encouraged to register their sites on this list, and to use stable URLs to keep the list current and useful. Any instructional sites that are discovered in the process of monitoring or other activities will be added to the list and evaluated (automated and manual) for compliance. Instructors are expected to evaluate their sites for compliance using AccVerify. Samples of instructional sites will be monitored with AccMonitor either weekly or monthly, depending on the volume of sites, and a subset of those will be evaluated manually. A program will be developed to randomly select instructional sites for evaluation. The owners of web pages that fail testing will be informed and given 20 business days to remediate the pages. If the pages have not been remediated at the end of that period, the non-compliant pages will have public read access removed.
Instructors are always allowed to use access controls to make instructional pages available only to the students in their classes. Such pages are treated as instructional materials, not as public web pages.
Individuals are responsible for the accessibility of their personal sites. To aid them in this,
A program will be developed to randomly select sites for automated and manual evaluation. The owners of web pages that fail testing will be informed and given 20 business days to remediate the pages. If the pages have not been remediated at the end of that period, and if no waiver has been requested and granted, the non-compliant pages will have public read access removed.
