Web Access for Individuals with Disabilities - UW Oshkosh Plan

President Katharine Lyall has asked all UW institutions to:

• Subscribe minimally to the Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines, Priority 1 Standards.
• Incorporate into their IT Plan a blueprint or explanation of how they intend to assure that their web materials are accessible to all customers.

UW Oshkosh will be developing its 2001-2003 IT Plan this spring; it is due to System in June 2001.

Meeting President Lyall's directive will be a substantial effort. There are more than 16,000 web pages in the uwosh.edu domain, and probably hundreds if not thousands more on departmental web servers. To review and fix these pages must be a University-wide project.

Basically, compliance with Priority 1 Standards is achieved by providing alternative representations of non-textual content and avoiding frames. Many of our current pages are already in compliance. Of those that are not, probably 90% can be brought to compliance with the addition of alt. tags to their images. To fix a page could take from an hour to several days, depending on the complexity of the page.

UW Oshkosh will meet President Lyall's directive as follows:

• The Information Technology (IT) Division will make the top level University pages, and those pages that IT staff have created for other units, conform to the Priority 1 standards.
• All other units are responsible for reviewing their web pages and making those changes necessary to bring their pages into compliance with the Priority 1 Standards.
• IT will provide the following assistance to the campus:
  • Provide the Priority 1 Standards to all units.
  • Offer training workshops (during spring 2001).
  • Make available electronic tools that will assist in this effort.
• The UW Oshkosh "Web Policy" will be revised to include reference to compliance with the Priority 1 Standards as a minimum requirement for new pages. This will require concurrence by the governance groups.
• The target for campus completion of the web page review and revisions (so that all pages are compliant) is June 2002.
• Prior to this date, departments and units will be required to submit preliminary reports on the status of work on their web pages. These preliminary reports are due September 1, 2001 and January 1, 2002, and should be sent to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology.

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