Technology Access at UW Madison

ITC MeetingDecember 14, 2012

Presenters: Bruce Maas, Vice Provost for Information Technology,

Chief Information Officer Carrie Nelson, General Library, ATR Team Member Cathy Trueba, Assistant Dean, Division of Student

Life Director, McBurney Disability Resource Center

Students w/Disabilities at UW Madison*2010-11 data

Learning Disorders 444 Learning Disability 202 Attention Deficit Dis. 213 Brain Injury 18 Autism/Asperger's 11

Sensory/Mobility/Health 254 Low Vision/Blind 15 Deaf/Hard of Hearing 29 Mobility 40 Chronic Health 172

Psychiatric 257

Total 969

UW Student Adaptive Technology Users (160-170)

Text/image enlargement – Magnifiers, ZoomText Screen reading software (Kurzweill) Voice recognition software (Dragon) CART captioning Captioned media Smart Pen technology FM/audio amplification systems Refreshable Braillehttp://www.mcburney.wisc.edu/training/mcburney/foundations/#module3 (4:56 6:13 and 6:38)

Technology Interactions Beyond the Classroom

Timetable and course registration UW Scholarship Portal Electronic Portfolios Email and calendaring systems UW Athletics ticket requests

Faculty Interaction with Information Technology

Books/ebooks Interactive tutorials Flipped classrooms Podcasts Learning Management Systems Electronic testing Classroom learning technology Webinars & chats

Faculty Interaction cont…

Media, including social media Labs and research equipment Faculty/department websites Content - PDFs, PPT, etc. Databases Lecture capture Conferencing software (e.g., Adobe

Connect)

Federal Accessibility Law Rehabilitation Act (1973)

Section 504 (1973) Program access Section 508 (amendment in 1986,

amended 1998) Technology Access Americans with Disabilities Act (1990,

amended, 2009) Voluntary standards and guidelines World

Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

UW System and UW Madison Policies UW System Non-Discrimination Policy (1988, 1996)

http://www.uwsa.edu/bor/policies/rpd/rpd14-10.htm http://www.wisc.edu/policies/wwwap.php VCA Accommodation Funding Policy http://

www.vc.wisc.edu/Docs/AccommodationFundingPolicy2010.pdf

Faculty Doc 1071 – Access to Instruction (1994) http://adac.wisc.edu/1071.html

Faculty Doc1143 – Test Accommodations (1995) http://adac.wisc.edu/students/assess.html Web Accessibility Policy (2000, 2001, 2003, 2007)

Cultural, Resource and Industry Challenges

Independent decision making practices

Decentralized technology infrastructure

Limited dedicated FTE with expertise in adaptive technology

Limited awareness and campus training

Pace of technology innovation

Vendor testing and compliance imits

Procurement language

Outcomes

Overreliance on reactive retro-fit to achieve technology access

Unequal access to learning

Liability and compliance risk Penn State Northwestern

Campus Response(s) Changes in policy and practice

Faculty document on technology and learning?

Campus community of practice More robust education and training Faculty influencing the industry (e.g., E

Pub 3 standard) CIO CIC influencing the industry