February 26 Meeting: Overview of IT Accessibility Issues & Our UW Journey

Topic: Overview of IT Accessibility Issues & Our UW Journey
Speaker: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, UW-IT Accessible Technology Services
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Time 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Allen Auditorium

Sheryl will guide us through the current state of IT accessibility issues in higher education and describe the steps being taken at the UW to address those issues. Topics with include defining what "accessible" means, lessons learned from legal cases, defining our IT accessibility goals, and work currently underway to take us toward those goals.

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AccessibleWeb@U meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of each month in Allen Auditorium. You can subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the AccessibleWeb@U mailing list at https://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibleweb. Notes from past AccessibleWeb@U meetings are available on our funky AccessWebU blog at http://accesswebu.blogspot.com/.

The Allen Auditorium is located in the part of the Allen Library directly attached to Suzzallo Library, on the northeast corner of the room with the help desk and the crows.