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Accessibility

Accessibility at Olympic College

Illustration of different kinds of accessibility symbolsAccessibility is the Law- This applies to all OC Employees

Section 508 Standards requires that all government agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others.

Olympic College's Accessible Technology Policy outlines our commitment to provide information technology resources and services that are accessible to all OC students, faculty, staff and the public regardless of disability. This policy encompasses all information and communication technology (ICT) used to deliver programs and services throughout the institution.

Email, documents, webpages, and presentations must adhere to the guidelines set forth by WCAG 2.0 outlines.

Training is available from the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (see the mini-courses listed on this page) but everyone can start out by ensuring their emails are fully accessible. Learn how to make your Outlook email accessible to everyone!

Source: Pixabay

Intro to Accessibility

(music)

[Title: UDL On Campus: At the Margins. Sam Johnston, Research Scientist at CAST, appears on the screen.]

SAM JOHNSTON: So some of the most innovative users of UDL are really the institutions or the professors who are serving students that are the ones at the margins. They're serving students that are first generation college students. They're serving students that are low income. They're serving students that are English language learners and students with disabilities.

[Students are seated in a circle around classroom. An instructor holds a book at the front of the class. The next scene shows a close up shot of a poster with the words “Patience, Accessibility, and Diverse Thinking, Empathy, Respect” with students standing in the background. Sam Johnston returns to the screen.]

SAM JOHNSTON: For those institutions and those faculty members, UDL isn't a set of strategies or techniques, it's a value system. It's how you teach and learn. It's foundational.

[Students present projected images to peers in the classroom. The next scene shows an instructor lecturing to a large classroom with students on laptops. Sam Johnston returns to the screen.]

SAM JOHNSTON: And those are the people who are really going to bring this innovation from the margins to the middle because they're going to show that by serving students that are the least well suited to one-size-fits-all everybody benefits, everybody gets something out of it including faculty members, including the institutions themselves.

[End credits: UDL On Campus, CAST: Until learning has no limits.]