Adding even more coffee to work

The CSU system has really embraced the drive towards accessibility.

The Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) reflects the California State University’s (CSU) ongoing commitment to provide access to information resources and technologies to individuals with disabilities.

Okay we are required to make information technology resources and services accessible to all CSU students, faculty, staff and the general public regardless of disability but I like to think we want to make it accessible for all. Well I do. And so does babs.

So more locally we have created a steering committess and working darn hard. Its difficult because there are so few web people on this campus. I’m in the web accessibility subgroup where we have to come up with policies, trainings and test campus pages. A few pages were randomly choosen and will require a long and possibily tedious manual check. This can take awhile for the web peeps and we know what to do. Next week I will have to manually interview a few pages with their owners that often were just handed their web site or a student created in years ago. They are already overworked and will have no idea what the heck I am talking about when I sprout such phrases as “semantic validation” and “text equivalents.” It will be interesting. Just getting a time to meet has been challeneging.
babs and I did a workshop yesterday on Web Accessibility. In one hour we tried to cram as much as possible. We created a mock university (I named it Coffee University) and jammed as much coffee terms as possible. I think it went pretty well, but it just scratched the surface.