The SUNY CIT received a grant to check online courses for compliance with accessibility standards and provide support to faculty. They reviewed 66 courses by 52 faculty members, totaling around 400 hours. Common issues found included inaccessible tables, PDFs, videos, and PowerPoints. The team provided training through open sessions and meetings on making documents, PowerPoints, videos, and objects like images compliant. Faculty were given resources on the accessibility checklist and standards through the faculty support center blog.

1. SUNY CIT 2016
Lisa Dubuc, Coordinator of Electronic Learning,
Donna Simiele, eLearning Technology Support Coordinator,
&
Lynn Brochu, Professor - Health & Physical Education

2.  Received a SUNY Innovative Instruction
Technology Grant (IITG)
 With Grant Funding:
▪ Built a compliance checklist (based on Middle
States, Higher Education Opportunity Act, and
OSCQR Accessibility standards)
▪ Checked online courses for compliance issues
▪ Sent findings to faculty
▪ Provided professional development sessions based
on findings

3.  Required:
 Course Interaction
▪ Student-to-Student, Faculty-to-Student, & Student-to-
Faculty
 NCCC Disability Disclosure
 NCCC Academic Integrity Policy
 Content Accessibility:
 Documents (Word, Blackboard, & PDF)
 Tables
 PowerPoints
 Non-Text Elements (images, tables, charts, etc.)
 Videos

4.  Checked
66 Courses
52 Faculty
3 Reviewers
Approx. 400 hours

6. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Documents PowerPoints Tables Non-Text
Elements
Links Videos 3rd Party
Content
67
15
62 61
64
38
44

7.  Documents
 Font type, font size, colors
 Blackboard did not have a print function
 Documents were only offered in Word not PDF
 PDF
 Some PDF files were hand written and scanned
 Tables
 Blackboard does not have the ability to make
tables accessible – All docs with tables needed to
be created in Word
 Hyperlinks
 Showed URL not text, Alt Text was not provided

8.  PowerPoint
 If narrated, they did not contain
captions/transcripts
 Layouts were often not used
 Images
 Did not contain Alt Text
 Videos
 Were not CC or transcribed

9.  13 Open Sessions
 12 One-on-One Meetings
 6 - 30 Minute Mentor Sessions
(Recorded)

10.  Compliance Project Information Meeting
 How to make Word documents compliant
 How to make Blackboard “pages/items”
compliant
 How to make PowerPoint presentations
compliant
 How to make videos compliant through
YouTube
 How to make objects compliant
 (e.g. images, hyperlinks, and tables)
 How to create PDF files from Word or
PowerPoint

11.  Accessibility Training –
Atomic Learning Videos
(Total Watching Time 20
min.)
 Self Evaluation (Quiz)
 Accessibility Resources
 Student Testimonials
 Tools and Techniques for
Improving Course
Accessibility (Magna
Commons)

13. Project Resources:
 Resources:
 NCCC eLearning Faculty Support Center (Blog)
 NCCC (Modified) OSCQR
 Compliance Checklist, Form, and Checklist with Resources/Descriptions
 SUNY Resources:
 Open SUNY
 Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE)
Open SUNY COTE Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR)
 Questions about OSCQR
 Online Accessibility SUNY FACT2
 Buffalo State College Accessibility
 Other
 Portland Community College website with tutorials and resources
 My Journey Through Darkness (Video) – Fact2 Accessibility Symposium 2015