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Accessibility by Design

Campus Efforts

It takes the effort of all aspects of our community to make our virtual campus inclusive. It involves teamwork with many units across campus. Here are some of the collaborations that are currently active.

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Historical and Present Campus Accessibility Efforts

Accessibility Center:

  • Accessibility Center in development starting in 2025 under the Senior Director
  • Coordinating accessibility across campus, under the umbrella of the Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President

ATRC:

  • Providing assistive technology accommodations to students and employees with disabilities
  • Trainings and course development
  • Accessibility by Design website
  • Consultations
  • Advocacy
  • Accessibility evaluations
  • Managing the Electronic Accessibility Allies Team

Student Disability Center (SDC): 

  • Managing accommodations
  • Advocacy
  • Trainings

TILT:

  • Online short course as part of the Best Practices in Teaching series: Accessible and Inclusive Electronic Content (available for both faculty and staff).
  • Captioning for student accommodations

Division of IT/Web Accessibility Subcommittee:

  • SiteImprove (website accessibility checking tool) implementation and management
  • Website evaluations
  • Accessibility Open House Sessions
  • PDI Sessions
  • Job description language for positions related to web development

Inclusive Physical and Virtual Campus Committee:

  • Courageous Strategic Transformation Inspiration Proposal including an Electronic Inclusivity Center and dedicated personnel
  • Hosts the Accessibility Track in the Inclusive Excellence Symposium

IT Accessibility Task Force (2022):

  • Performed a needs assessment and peer institution reviews on electronic accessibility
  • Recommendations are being implemented starting in 2023
    • Recommendation for Accessibility Center being implemented starting in 2025

Canvas Administrators:

  • Anthology Ally tool for holistic Canvas course accessibility
  • UDOIT for Canvas accessibility checking tool
  • Default Canvas course template with accessibility
  • Echo360 and Kaltura video platforms

Related Policies

We have two policies that speak to electronic accessibility:

Content Remediation

Instructional Video

For student accommodations, accurate captions and/or American Sign Language are necessary.

  • CSU Online produces captioning for courses offered fully online.
  • TILT produces captioning for all other RI courses.

If you have a student with a captioning accommodation in your course, you will be contacted by one of these departments.

Non-Instructional Video

For other videos, such as those posted on websites, each department is responsible for its own accurate captions. Some departments are editing captions themselves, others are outsourcing. See Multimedia for details on captioning options.

Documents and Textbooks

Departments are responsible for making their own content accessible. Steps that help make this possible include:

  • Requiring accessibility when adopting curriculum and textbooks
  • Providing Adobe Acrobat Professional licensing to faculty and staff
  • Training faculty and staff to include electronic accessibility in their workflows
  • Hiring staff or GTAs who can assist the department in meeting requirements
  • Outsourcing document remediation: 247 Accessible Documents – Reliable and Cost-Effective Document Remediation