WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:05.830 My name is Sheryl Burgstahler 00:00:05.830 --> 00:00:08.050 and I direct Accessible Technology Services 00:00:08.050 --> 00:00:10.190 at the University of Washington. 00:00:10.190 --> 00:00:12.400 And through our Access Technology Center 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:15.280 and other services, we’re making sure 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:18.650 that the IT that we develop, 00:00:18.650 --> 00:00:22.529 procure, and use at the University of Washington 00:00:22.529 --> 00:00:28.080 is accessible to all of our faculty, students, staff, and visitors. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:39.980 In the state of Washington we now have a policy. 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:43.520 Policy 188 addresses accessible technology 00:00:43.539 --> 00:00:46.469 and so it requires that our postsecondary institutions 00:00:46.469 --> 00:00:51.109 in the state of Washington make their IT accessible to all 00:00:51.109 --> 00:00:54.180 students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities. 00:00:54.180 --> 00:00:57.380 It requires that we be proactive in doing that 00:00:57.380 --> 00:00:59.240 by auditing the software we have, 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.260 checking for accessibility, and making plans for making it more accessible 00:01:03.260 --> 00:01:08.080 either ourselves for our websites or with vendors if it's a commercial product. 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:09.820 My name is Patrick Pow. 00:01:09.820 --> 00:01:13.320 I'm from University of Washington Tacoma. 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:16.550 My responsibility is technology. 00:01:16.550 --> 00:01:20.360 I'm the vice chancellor for information technology. 00:01:20.360 --> 00:01:22.520 When I look at Policy 188 00:01:22.520 --> 00:01:25.530 I actually look at it as an opportunity 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:31.299 for us to enhance and do better on our campus. 00:01:31.299 --> 00:01:34.130 As one of our efforts at the University of Washington 00:01:34.130 --> 00:01:36.700 to ensure that all of the IT 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:40.151 that we procure, develop, and use on our campuses 00:01:40.151 --> 00:01:44.750 is accessible to all of our faculty, students, and staff 00:01:44.750 --> 00:01:46.400 who have disabilities, 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:50.050 we initiated a task force at the highest level. 00:01:50.050 --> 00:01:55.790 And so we include people from HR, people from the disability services offices, 00:01:55.790 --> 00:02:00.140 from our communications group, from our accessible IT group, 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:04.030 but many other units as well and we wrestle with how technology 00:02:04.030 --> 00:02:06.560 can be made more accessible to people with disabilities. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.700 And so some of the things that we do, for instance, 00:02:08.700 --> 00:02:13.200 is have an inventory, particularly of the common 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:17.940 most widely used software, websites, and videos that we use on campus. 00:02:17.940 --> 00:02:20.260 My name’s Dan. 00:02:20.260 --> 00:02:23.379 The role that I’m playing in the Policy 188 effort 00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:30.080 is to help assemble the inventory of IT on campus. 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.799 This is not a one person effort. 00:02:31.799 --> 00:02:33.489 This is a multi-person effort. 00:02:33.489 --> 00:02:36.970 We document what information we know about those products. 00:02:36.970 --> 00:02:39.700 As time allows, we test those products for accessibility 00:02:39.700 --> 00:02:42.680 and determine how we're going to make the products more accessible, 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.010 often working with the vendors. 00:02:44.010 --> 00:02:46.269 One of the task force’s priorities 00:02:46.269 --> 00:02:49.620 has been to promote captioning of videos used on campus. 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:55.340 We have helped initiate a pilot actually where we 00:02:55.340 --> 00:02:58.939 provide free captioning for videos on campus. 00:02:58.939 --> 00:03:02.159 It's a limited amount of money so we’re not captioning all videos, 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.159 but we're captioning those that have a high impact. 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:09.930 Now that pilot has turned into an ongoing service. 00:03:09.930 --> 00:03:13.739 Some videos need both captions and audio description. 00:03:13.739 --> 00:03:15.599 Audio description is additional narration 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:17.609 that describes the visuals on the screen 00:03:17.609 --> 00:03:19.680 for those who cannot see them. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.999 The "Best of UW 2016," a year in review video, 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.349 used both captions and audio description. 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:28.860 I'm Gina Hills. 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:30.560 I'm the web communications director 00:03:30.569 --> 00:03:33.560 for University Marketing and Communications. 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:37.090 This year's video was all visual, with music. 00:03:37.090 --> 00:03:39.739 We did close caption the video. 00:03:39.739 --> 00:03:46.819 The first stage was we put a little thing that said "music" on there. 00:03:46.819 --> 00:03:48.889 I'm Terrill Thompson. 00:03:48.889 --> 00:03:51.279 I'm an IT accessibility specialist 00:03:51.279 --> 00:03:53.799 at the University of Washington. 00:03:53.799 --> 00:03:57.279 If you watch that video, the music contributes significantly 00:03:57.279 --> 00:04:00.529 to the emotion that the video creates, 00:04:00.529 --> 00:04:04.540 so it's featuring a lot of the really 00:04:04.540 --> 00:04:05.790 wonderful things that have happened 00:04:05.790 --> 00:04:09.569 at the university over the last year in 2016 00:04:09.569 --> 00:04:13.080 and the music builds and swells 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:18.900 and just becomes much more dramatic as the piece grows. 00:04:18.900 --> 00:04:24.230 And so they revised the captions to address that need 00:04:24.230 --> 00:04:26.630 and really did an excellent job I think 00:04:26.630 --> 00:04:29.040 of capturing exactly what the music is doing 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.330 throughout this piece as it grows and swells. 00:04:32.330 --> 00:04:36.730 The other thing that's interesting about the Best of UW 2016 00:04:36.730 --> 00:04:41.370 is that it was entirely music. 00:04:41.370 --> 00:04:44.040 There’s no spoken audio. 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.600 Therefore somebody who can't see it 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:48.660 gets nothing out of it other than the music. 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:50.140 So they hear the music, 00:04:50.140 --> 00:04:54.020 And, it's a wonderful piece, but to them it's just a music video. 00:04:54.020 --> 00:04:55.840 They have no idea that all these wonderful things 00:04:55.840 --> 00:04:57.800 happened at the University. 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.320 So all those details are missing for them 00:05:01.320 --> 00:05:05.630 So that particularly is a video that requires audio description. 00:05:05.630 --> 00:05:10.240 Words appear, hash tag Best of UW 2016. 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.630 The Nobel Medal next to David J. Thouless, 00:05:13.630 --> 00:05:16.330 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. 00:05:16.330 --> 00:05:17.790 With President Obama, 00:05:17.790 --> 00:05:20.950 Mary-Claire King, National Medal of Science. 00:05:20.950 --> 00:05:24.460 UW and Microsoft break record for DNA data storage. 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:28.260 A collage of photos, Inaugural Husky 100. 00:05:28.420 --> 00:05:31.060 We covered all bases, all audiences, 00:05:31.070 --> 00:05:32.280 and didn't leave anybody out 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:35.790 in terms of experiencing the previous year at the university. 00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:38.220 I think that this is a good model 00:05:38.220 --> 00:05:40.520 for what we can do and what we should do 00:05:40.520 --> 00:05:42.200 and what we should aspire to. 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:45.720 Another task force priority is helping faculty and staff 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.860 make PDFs and other documents accessible, 00:05:48.860 --> 00:05:50.840 so that someone who is using a screen reader 00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:52.910 can have the content read to them. 00:05:52.910 --> 00:05:56.050 In our pilot on PDF accessibility 00:05:56.050 --> 00:05:59.340 we're working with several large units on our campus 00:05:59.340 --> 00:06:02.400 and we're contracting with some consultants 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:05.560 that will make PDFs accessible 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.130 so they'll remediate some of the PDFs 00:06:08.130 --> 00:06:10.949 that have been developed in an inaccessible way. 00:06:10.949 --> 00:06:15.760 My name is Gaby de Jongh, and I’m an IT accessibility specialist 00:06:15.760 --> 00:06:21.270 for Accessible Technology Services at the University of Washington. 00:06:21.270 --> 00:06:26.100 At the University of Washington we have several hundred PDF documents 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:31.050 being uploaded to our websites, probably on a daily basis, 00:06:31.050 --> 00:06:34.370 and many if not all of those PDF documents 00:06:34.370 --> 00:06:41.171 are inaccessible to individuals who use text to speech assistive technology 00:06:41.171 --> 00:06:45.100 in order to access those documents. 00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:50.330 Accessible Technology Services has worked with UW Bothell and UW Tacoma 00:06:50.330 --> 00:06:57.700 on a pilot project for addressing the large amount of PDF documents 00:06:57.700 --> 00:07:00.690 that we have on the tri campuses. 00:07:00.690 --> 00:07:05.090 The three campuses worked pretty closely together 00:07:05.090 --> 00:07:11.460 using different tools to identify the number of documents that were on the website 00:07:11.460 --> 00:07:17.000 and then coming up with a plan for going through those documents, 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.020 seeing if they actually really do need to be listed on the website 00:07:20.020 --> 00:07:21.950 or if they need to be taken down 00:07:21.950 --> 00:07:24.330 and if they do need to be listed on the website 00:07:24.330 --> 00:07:26.620 what is the process, 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:28.460 what is the process that we're going to go through 00:07:28.460 --> 00:07:31.950 in order to make sure that we’re going to 00:07:31.950 --> 00:07:34.580 make all of those PDFs accessible. 00:07:35.340 --> 00:07:37.680 The task force helps develop and recruit 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:41.210 for capacity building institutes on accessible IT 00:07:41.210 --> 00:07:44.000 for participants from units across campus. 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:46.620 My name is Pete Graff and I work for 00:07:46.630 --> 00:07:49.690 the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer. 00:07:49.690 --> 00:07:51.240 And a lot of the tools that we develop, 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.230 some of them are used on public facing websites 00:07:54.230 --> 00:07:58.610 and we want to make sure that we're doing the best job that we can 00:07:58.610 --> 00:08:02.670 to ensure that the tools that we provide are fully accessible. 00:08:02.670 --> 00:08:04.630 My name is Ana Thompson. 00:08:04.630 --> 00:08:08.660 I'm a learning technologist at University of Washington Bothell. 00:08:08.660 --> 00:08:13.670 I enjoy tremendously attending the capacity building institutes 00:08:13.670 --> 00:08:18.100 because it allows me to connect with other professional peers 00:08:18.100 --> 00:08:22.280 who see the importance of universal design, 00:08:22.280 --> 00:08:23.800 and also they help me learn. 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:28.160 They give me ideas on how we can do what I'm doing better. 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.300 UW’s IT Accessibility Liaisons 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:35.250 are recruited From the UW capacity building institutes. 00:08:35.250 --> 00:08:40.250 Liaisons engage online, participate in three training meetings each year, 00:08:40.250 --> 00:08:44.360 and promote the accessibility of IT in their respective units. 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:49.050 My name's Jodi and I work for UW-IT. 00:08:49.050 --> 00:08:54.839 I'm heartened by the commitment that we have across campus 00:08:54.839 --> 00:08:57.689 that we're not alone in this endeavor 00:08:57.689 --> 00:09:00.120 and that we all want to do it together 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.899 and we have central resources to help us do that. 00:09:03.899 --> 00:09:07.699 Annual capacity building institutes on the UW campus 00:09:07.699 --> 00:09:13.810 are also offered to representatives of postsecondary institutions state-wide. 00:09:13.810 --> 00:09:17.620 Participants share promising practices for making IT more accessible. 00:09:17.620 --> 00:09:20.779 Scott Towsley from Yakima Valley College. 00:09:20.779 --> 00:09:24.560 I’m the IT director, director for e-learning, 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:28.009 and also the accessibility coordinator. 00:09:28.009 --> 00:09:31.589 Actually coming to this training here is going to give us some best practices, 00:09:31.589 --> 00:09:34.390 some contacts across the state. 00:09:34.390 --> 00:09:37.290 Some of the things that we’re all looking at is 00:09:37.290 --> 00:09:40.819 what software, common software can we all use? 00:09:40.819 --> 00:09:43.600 What are some initiatives that everybody else is doing? 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.810 My name is Carrie Powell and I work at Centralia College 00:09:46.810 --> 00:09:50.709 and I am the Policy 188 coordinator at Centralia College. 00:09:50.709 --> 00:09:54.700 It occurred to me that the reason we have so much good, 00:09:54.700 --> 00:09:58.470 so many good things going on at our campus is that we, 00:09:58.470 --> 00:10:00.959 my disability services director and I attended a 00:10:00.959 --> 00:10:05.009 capacity building institute at the University of Washington three years ago 00:10:05.009 --> 00:10:08.300 and it sparked an entire, 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:10.060 it led to a lot of amazing things. 00:10:10.060 --> 00:10:12.810 But the first, the key thing was, we walked away knowing 00:10:12.810 --> 00:10:14.971 that our task was to go back to our campus 00:10:14.971 --> 00:10:20.829 and form a work group of interested stakeholders– 00:10:20.829 --> 00:10:24.350 people from our IT department, e-learning, disability services, 00:10:24.350 --> 00:10:26.670 from our college relations, from our legal services, 00:10:26.670 --> 00:10:29.410 we just we got a group of people together 00:10:29.410 --> 00:10:32.560 just based on asking and people said, "Sure," 00:10:32.560 --> 00:10:33.760 and so that was a key idea 00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:37.670 that we took away from that first capacity building institute. 00:10:37.670 --> 00:10:40.139 My name is Bridget Irish 00:10:40.139 --> 00:10:42.339 and I work at The Evergreen State College 00:10:42.339 --> 00:10:44.899 located in Olympia, Washington. 00:10:44.899 --> 00:10:51.790 My official position is as curricular technology support to faculty. 00:10:51.790 --> 00:10:54.699 At The Evergreen State College, 00:10:54.699 --> 00:10:57.699 some ways in which we try to make 00:10:57.699 --> 00:11:02.779 our IT resources and tools more accessible 00:11:02.779 --> 00:11:07.749 is one, by providing faculty with a template, 00:11:07.749 --> 00:11:10.639 a template for use in Canvas 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:14.669 as well as a variety of templates available for use with WordPress. 00:11:14.669 --> 00:11:17.190 I’m Carly Gerard. 00:11:17.190 --> 00:11:22.890 I work at Western Washington University as a web accessibility developer. 00:11:22.890 --> 00:11:29.230 One of our first starting points in making IT accessible is training. 00:11:29.230 --> 00:11:33.120 Once we have people who understand where to begin, 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.769 what accessibility features to look for, 00:11:35.769 --> 00:11:40.339 we can then help them, you know, manage their websites. 00:11:40.339 --> 00:11:43.470 They can look for any accessibility issues. 00:11:43.470 --> 00:11:49.610 We host training sessions both online and in person. 00:11:49.610 --> 00:11:51.930 So our online training rolled out a few months ago 00:11:51.930 --> 00:11:55.860 and we’ve had over 200 people enrolled 00:11:55.860 --> 00:12:00.480 before the end of the year who have now taken the training 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.949 and they can continue to edit their content 00:12:02.949 --> 00:12:05.740 knowing these accessibility features. 00:12:05.740 --> 00:12:07.980 We do also offer an in-person training 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:11.600 for those who may not be as comfortable with online learning. 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.620 My name is Craig Kerr. 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:16.839 I’m the director for services for students with disabilities 00:12:16.839 --> 00:12:18.980 at Edmonds Community College. 00:12:18.980 --> 00:12:21.240 Our professional development committee 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.839 what we’re going around to each division 00:12:23.839 --> 00:12:27.180 to do trainings on how to make accessible documents. 00:12:27.180 --> 00:12:30.379 Working with the professional development committee that’s based 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:33.410 of faculty sharing with faculty 00:12:33.410 --> 00:12:36.889 the ways to make their documents accessible 00:12:36.889 --> 00:12:39.639 is a key piece because you’re talking peer to peer. 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.350 Hi, my name is Amy Rovner 00:12:42.350 --> 00:12:45.699 and I am an instructional designer and accessible IT coordinator 00:12:45.699 --> 00:12:47.769 at Shoreline Community College. 00:12:47.769 --> 00:12:51.839 We are also working on areas of captioning for our videos, 00:12:51.839 --> 00:12:54.869 that’s a big thing to make sure everyone can 00:12:54.869 --> 00:12:58.959 hear and absorb the content in the videos. 00:12:58.959 --> 00:13:01.209 We've added Ally to our Canvas instance 00:13:01.209 --> 00:13:03.119 so that students who may or may not have 00:13:03.119 --> 00:13:04.499 an official accommodation 00:13:04.499 --> 00:13:09.100 are able to access accessible versions of documents, 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:10.339 audible versions of documents, 00:13:10.339 --> 00:13:13.360 even a braille, electronic braille version of documents 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:14.979 right away in real time. 00:13:14.979 --> 00:13:17.379 My name is Agnes Figueroa. 00:13:17.379 --> 00:13:19.819 I work at Renton Technical College 00:13:19.819 --> 00:13:23.959 and I’m currently the deputy CIO, chief information officer. 00:13:23.959 --> 00:13:31.759 We started with convening an accessibility advisory committee. 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.809 In this group we try to gather together 00:13:35.809 --> 00:13:38.889 people from various areas of campus 00:13:38.889 --> 00:13:42.470 so we have representatives from human resources, 00:13:42.470 --> 00:13:46.160 from the library, from e-learning , 00:13:46.160 --> 00:13:52.370 from IT, the disability office, 00:13:52.370 --> 00:13:53.649 faculty members. 00:13:53.649 --> 00:13:57.290 I’m David Engebretson Jr. 00:13:57.290 --> 00:14:00.389 and I’m at Western Washington University 00:14:00.389 --> 00:14:04.439 and I’m the digital technologies accessibility coordinator. 00:14:04.439 --> 00:14:11.970 We’ve made some real efforts to create awareness about accessibility 00:14:11.970 --> 00:14:16.259 and I think that’s kind of been the biggest change is that 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:18.629 our community is becoming aware of the need 00:14:18.629 --> 00:14:23.010 for accessible and inclusive design. 00:14:23.010 --> 00:14:26.279 As a blind person, I notice just little changes 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.220 making a big difference in the accessibility. 00:14:30.220 --> 00:14:36.199 Headings on webpages and educational materials in general, 00:14:36.199 --> 00:14:42.660 captions in videos, and 00:14:42.660 --> 00:14:44.779 accessible graphics. 00:14:44.779 --> 00:14:47.429 My name is Jeremy Seda 00:14:47.429 --> 00:14:50.579 and I work for Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake 00:14:50.579 --> 00:14:53.199 as the web and multimedia specialist. 00:14:53.199 --> 00:14:56.529 It feels just so much more personal to meet 00:14:56.529 --> 00:14:59.829 with other folks around this similar goal 00:14:59.829 --> 00:15:03.459 and to really come together in a collaborative fashion to brainstorm 00:15:03.459 --> 00:15:08.839 and to really work out the details of a problem that we're all facing. 00:15:08.839 --> 00:15:10.649 My name is Clay Krauss. 00:15:10.649 --> 00:15:12.509 I work for Tacoma Community College. 00:15:12.509 --> 00:15:17.740 I'm the information technology director there on campus. 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:20.279 One of the most important things is bringing people together 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.379 and forming those networks, 00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:26.730 the formal networks and the informal networks, 00:15:26.730 --> 00:15:29.000 to dialogue and share ideas 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.160 regarding accessible information technology. 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:37.319 My name is Zach Lattin. 00:15:37.319 --> 00:15:43.470 I'm an assistive technology and IT accessibility specialist at Clark College. 00:15:43.470 --> 00:15:49.040 I have a really personal stake in this because I am, 00:15:49.040 --> 00:15:54.129 have been blind since birth, so I use assistive technology myself. 00:15:54.129 --> 00:15:56.399 We don't have to make this policy on our own. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.569 We can work with people all over the place 00:15:59.569 --> 00:16:04.200 and come up with the rising tide that lifts all boats, I think.