Using WAI material

Hi

We've now completed our presentation, created a transcript of the session, which along with other resources can be found on our presentation support page<https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/makeITaccessible.html>.

I've compiled a list of the comments and questions from the session and attach them to this email.

The session had good feedback, the attendance was around 120 people in the session, from 240 sign ups. They were mainly senior members of IT departments and professional services teams within UK universities.

The WAI material was so useful for providing a framework and pathway to build the presentation around, we tried to explain the WAI materials and then show how they were relevant within our context. We only covered a part of the WAI Planning and Managing Web Accessibility<https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning-and-managing/> resources during the session itself, but I built a longer slide deck that coverered everything. We also built a template file that could be used for creating an IT accessibility policy and provided other resources that should help our colleagues to move closer to reaching their ambitions in this area.

Any feedback is welcome, particularly negative feedback, so that I can correct any misunderstandings and do better in the future.

Thanks

Matt

From: Matthew Deeprose
Sent: 29 October 2021 09:49
To: wai-eo-editors@w3.org<mailto:wai-eo-editors@w3.org>
Subject: Using WAI material


Hi

Together with some colleagues I'm giving a presentation approaching accessibility within the policies and processes of University IT departments. I'm based in the UK and have found that very few HE IT departments have thought about this and there is a hunger to learn more. I'm in a position of looking to gain support for such work in my own department, and I've connected with someone at another institution who has just had an IT accessibility policy approved for implementation.

Whilst researching the topic I came across the WAI Planning and Managing Web Accessibility<https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning-and-managing/> resources. This is an excellent framework for presenting the journey. I plan to use this to structure the presentation, to explain the different aspects covered in your guidance, and then to relate it to the circumstances that University IT departments face. For example many IT departments will support hundreds of web based services, some commercial, and some built in house. Development teams are often siloed and using different technology stacks.

The presentation is being organised by UCISA, a member-led professional body for digital practitioners within education. Here you can find details about the event<https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2021/December/Making-IT-accessible-for-all>.

Once the event has finished and I have the details from the organisers, I'll send a follow up email with the number of attendees, the questions they had, and other details.

I will follow the instructions on the Using WAI Material: Permission to Use with Attribution<https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/using-wai-material/> page.

Thanks for all the work you have done on making this resource available.

Matthew Deeprose
Senior Learning Designer
University of Southampton



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