Creating a Digital Accessibility Program in Higher Education: Jesse Loesberg
Details
At the University of California, Berkeley Library, digital accessibility has become an essential part of providing equitable access to information and services.
In this presentation, Jesse Loesberg will give you an inside look at how the library built and implemented a digital accessibility program following a Title II ADA lawsuit and a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Along the way, you’ll learn about the legal and institutional factors that shaped the program, including Berkeley’s unique relationship with the disability rights movement and the realities of introducing accessibility initiatives within a large academic and library environment. Jesse will also dive into the practical side of accessibility work, covering everything from developing processes and policies to collaborating with external vendors whose accessibility commitments may not always align with your own.
Learning Outcomes:
• Practical approaches to designing and implementing a digital accessibility program.
• The challenges and opportunities such a program presents.
• Techniques for communicating with external vendors.
• A portrait of how one very large academic institution dealt with an ADA lawsuit.
Thank you to our sponsors:
- Live captions and post-event transcription: Kinsta
- Organizer and host: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
- Your Business here! Learn about sponsorship
Event Details:
This meetup will be held at U.S. 8 AM Pacific, which is 10 AM U.S. Central, 4 PM in the UK, and 8:30 PM IST.
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Accessibility & Accommodations:
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned.
Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.
We're working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.
All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact an organizer, and we will try our best to accommodate you.
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