From: Seth Novogrodsky (seth@LS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 14:29:30 PST
The interim e-Berkeley policy (see
<http://itpolicy.berkeley.edu:7015/e-Berkeley.policy.html>) says:
>Accessibility
>
>In compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with
>Disabilities Act, the Electronic Communications Policy, University of
>California Guidelines Applying to Nondiscrimination on the Basis of
>Disability (http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/uwnews/aospol/toc140.html), the U.
>C. Berkeley Plan for Accommodating the Academic Needs of Students with
>Disabilities (http://www.chance.berkeley.edu/uga/policies/AcadAccom.html),
>and various other University nondiscrimination policies, all electronic
>communications, to the extent feasible, must be accessible to people with
>disabilities. If it is not feasible, alternative methods must be made
>available to complete the same tasks.
>
>Some common techniques to make websites more accessible are available at the
>campus Webnet group's Website Accessibility site
>(http://webnet.berkeley.edu/access/Wnetacc.html). For more information about
>legal or policy requirements, contact the Berkeley campus ADA/504 Compliance
>Officer: (510) 643-5116, newmeyer@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
>
In order to make pages accessible to people relying on text readers, any
information in Flash content needs to be made available by alternate
means. (This can be a description of what the visual content is.) The
Flash content on the www.berkeley.edu/news site contains both text and
images; it appears that not even the text in the Flash presentations is
accessible to the visually impaired. This would seem to be a violation of
campus policy.
Seth
At 02:03 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, Trish Ratto wrote:
>Steve - Do you have a sense of how many people on campus can access the
>news and videocasts that are using these web tools? Our work computers
>can't and I tried to view the webcast from my home computer and it
>couldn't even open it. Does anyone know what the campus standard is for
>sound cards, Flash or other applications needed for this type of spiffy stuff.
>
>Trish
>
>
>At 09:20 AM 11/21/2002 -0800, Steve McConnell wrote:
>>Debra: We're doing quite a bit of Flash and other "spiffy stuff" for
>>the UC Berkeley News pages, and more will be coming early next
>>year when we roll out a new news suite. Some examples of recent
>>work:
>>
>>* Chang-Lin Tien memorial (click the "A life in pictures" link):
>>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/10/tien.html
>>
>>* Oxygen Flute 2 interactive art installation:
>>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/10/21_artwork.
>>html
>>
>>* The nose knows:
>>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/10/23_brain.ht
>>ml
>>
>>* Homecoming Weekend slideshow:
>>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/10/21_homeco
>>ming.html
>>
>>* Unlocking the secrets of animal locomotion:
>>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/09/rfull/rfull.html
>>
>>Others examples are linked from here:
>>http://www.berkeley.edu/misc/ucpio/
>>
>>There are also the Webcasts done by our good friends at ETS
>>(http://webcast.berkeley.edu) of an increasing number of high-
>>profile campus events.
>>
>>
>>Steve McConnell
>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>Web news editor, UC Berkeley
>>www.berkeley.edu/news
>>
>>510/643.7789
>>scm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>
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>Trish Ratto, RD
>Manager, Health*Matters
>University Health Services
>2222 Tang Center
>Berkeley, CA 94720-4300
>(510) 642-7324 (phone)
>(510) 642-7411 (fax)
>tratto@uhs.berkeley.edu
>
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