Public Sector Accessibility Guidelines: What you need to know (and do!)
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Presentation delivered by Kellie Mote, accessibility specialist at Jisc, as part of a webinar in partnership with College Development Network (CDN), streamed on 20th February, 2020.
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Public Sector Accessibility Guidelines: What you need to know (and do!)
- 1. Public Sector Accessibility Guidelines What you need to know (and do!)
- 2. The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018
- 3. • Affects colleges and universities • Monitoring begins this year • Opportunities and challenges • Colleges and universities across the UK are at different stages • Requires a strategic approach • Support and guidance available • It’s going to be a process… What do you need to know?
- 4. • Websites and VLEs • Downloadable documents • Pre-recorded video content • Library content (eBooks etc) • Mobile apps (from 2021) Monitoring: Government Digital Service Enforcement: Equality and Human Rights Commission What are we talking about?
- 5. Content needs to be
- 6. Don’t panic Do prioritise What do you need to do now?
- 7. • Who needs to be in your team? • How will you test for accessibility? • What third party content do you use that is in scope? • What needs to be prioritised? • What resources or training are needed? You will need to decide
- 8. 23 September 2019 Public sector websites published on or after 23 September 2018 must be compliant 23 September 2020 Websites published before 23 September 2018 must be compliant and new video content must be accessible 23 June 2021 Apps must be compliant The deadlines
- 9. You may need to write more than one if you have a number of platforms Look at some examples to get a handle on the level of detail required Does yours reflect your future plans too? Look at some accessibility statements
- 10. Check out the new legal guidance
- 11. • Examples of other institutions’ statements; guides; templates; training materials • Informal chat with others about challenges, experiences and ideas in MS Teams • Collaborative working on standardised resources and crowdsourced 3rd party statements • Focused groups, e.g. subtitling, STEM • Digital accessibility mailing list, clinics, meets
- 12. Next online drop-in is about disproportionate burden with George Rhodes, member of the FEHE Digital Accessibility Working Group and accessibility consultant at the UK Home Office. • Wednesday 4th March 12:30 • Open to all • Recording will be available afterwards • Opportunity to ask questions Attend an accessibility clinic
- 13. College Development Network, Airthrey Castle, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Supported by CDN and free to attend Meeting Public Sector Web Accessibility Regulations: Next Steps
Editor's Notes
- EU regulations, now UK law Comparable to GDPR Like GDPR remains law post-Brexit Will be looking at examples of accessibility statements later and how the Jisc accessibility CoP can help.
- EU regulations, now UK law Comparable to GDPR Like GDPR remains law post-Brexit Will be looking at examples of accessibility statements later and how the Jisc accessibility CoP can help.
- Opportunities: built in quality assurance; reaching new audiences; aligning with business targets; removing or reducing the need to retrofit; upskilling staff; building digital capabilities of staff and students.
- What will happen?
- Summarise examples of each Think about how this fits with your business priorities Links strongly to UX and good design practice Link to EdEx WCAG mooc: https://www.edx.org/course/web-accessibility-introduction
- Summarise examples of each Think about how this fits with your business priorities Links strongly to UX and good design practice Link to EdEx WCAG mooc: https://www.edx.org/course/web-accessibility-introduction
- WHO: ideas - Senior management; Learning technology; Website designers; Marketing; Moodle or other VLE admins; assistive technologist; librarian. HOW: ideas – manual: test yourself; use a 3rd party £; automated testing and test with AT PRIORITIES: what is actually possible? RESOURCES: Blackboard Ally; subtitling TRAINING: Digital skills training e.g. creating accessible Word and PPT. Be realistic, this could be stressful for some staff without support. THEN you can plan a roadmap.
- NB Video – only new content needs to be made accessible but there are incidences where legacy content needs to be addressed. Lots of questions around subtitling and transcription. Prioritising: what will have the most impact?
- 3rd party Cop stuff Don’t just have a standard statement in isolation, think about how it links to what you’re doing and your ambitions for the future. How well does it reflect your plans for the future? https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/accessibility-statement
- 3rd party Cop stuff Don’t just have a standard statement in isolation, think about how it links to what you’re doing and your ambitions for the future. How well does it reflect your plans for the future? https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/accessibility-statement
- Link to join CoP https://www.jisc.ac.uk/get-involved/accessibility-community-group
- Link to join CoP https://www.jisc.ac.uk/get-involved/accessibility-community-group
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