The Elephant In the Room: IT, Accessibility and WTF? (A guided Discussion)

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Responsibility for accessibility does not end at Stanford boundaries
4 essential types of disabilities (re: web accessibility)
-Vision impairments
-Auditory impairment
-Mobility impairment
-Cognitive disabilities
Goal: try to identify issues for those types of disabilities, and develop ways to address them.
As a campus, we need to own this problem collectively. Should develop a proactive approach to online accessibility.
Some parallels between information security and accessibility - something that is everyone's responsibility, and a priority of the institution as a whole. Also, it's an ongoing issue, and one that will never go away.
We need to ask critical questions of our own development, and of vendors that we contract with.
Address accessibility at project initiation (deliverables), during development, and at QA time. This makes total cost much cheaper.
Make tools that make it easier for content creators to create accessible web content. Make the defaults create accessible content.
Resources:
http://soap.stanford.edu