Implementing an Accessibility Policy: An Insider's Guide

Submitted by mlb78 on Fri, 09/16/2016 - 17:24
TitleImplementing an Accessibility Policy: An Insider's Guide
Publication TypeWeb Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsGreco, Lucy, and Gazdowicz, Anna
Series TitleEDUCAUSE Review
AbstractTo successfully access website and application information, people with disabilities depend on technologies that adhere to specific design principles and standards that can increase usability for everyone. The Web Accessibility team at the University of California, Berkeley has tested hundreds of websites and learned many lessons about how to implement and sustain accessibility efforts.
NotesThe article tells the story of one of the authors, Lucy Greco, the web accessibility evangelist at the University of California, Berkeley. Since she was born to be blind, reading technologies for her are the liberation. From a very young age, she had been using a variety of accessibility tools constantly developing and increasingly provide her with more flexibility of doing research on her own.
URLhttp://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/2/implementing-an-accessibility-policy-an-insiders-guide