Providing digital accessibility for individuals with disabilities is crucial to ensuring disabilities is crucial to ensuring e who have disabilities is key to providing equitable access to digital content and technology at UWM. Each of us who owns these resources bears the responsibility to deliver upon that promise — it’s the right thing to do, and it’s the law.
Personal Actions That You Can Take to Play Your Part
- Inventory – Conduct an inventory of the technology that you possess or own by platform and where you store content (i.e., a Windows laptop where you use software, and you place content on the local drive and in the cloud using Microsoft OneDrive).
- Training – You must take training to learn about content or technology that’s inaccessible and what it would take to make it accessible for others. You also can learn about the tools available to support you in this work.
- Evaluate options – Upon identifying and reviewing your inaccessible content and technology, you must take action based on future use and value. You can remediate or archive. To help make your decisions, go to the Documentation & Guidelines section.
- Use tools – To remediate your content, use the preferred tools, based on your earlier training.
- Creating accessible content and technology – To avoid adding new content and technology that requires remediation, use what you’ve learned during training to create accessible content and technology going forward.
How to Prioritize Content & Technology That Requires Remediation
Public Content
- Highest priority
- Any student- or public-facing, frequently used academic content and documents, as well as public web content that is accessed often.
- University-wide or unit-specific software used most often by students or the public.
- Lower priority – Any content that is not accessed frequently, or unit software that is not used often.
Private Content
Personal software, private documents and web content that are not accessed by others are the lowest priority.