Web Accessibility at UC San Diego

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1. Web Accessibility Brett Pollak UC San Diego
2. About Me 16 years developing websites 13 years managing web development teams Currently the Director of the UC San Diego Campus Web Office (6 years)
3. UC San Diego Campus Web Office
4. Manage over 150websites in the CMS
5. Support over 900CMS users
6. UC San Diego Mobile
7. Accessibility is universal
8. Web Accessibility Making a website easy to use regardless of your abilities or disabilities Websites should use techniques so those with visual or cognitive impairments can navigate them
9. I in 10 people can’t read the number
10. Color Contrast is important
11. Public Education’s obligation to accessibility University of California Web Accessibility Policy Established on Aug, 27 2013 Defined implementation and procedures for web accessibility. Standards adopted/supported: • Section 508 • WCAG – Level AA
12. How UC San Diego supports accessibility Web CMS templates have accessibility built in We train our users how to create accessible Web pages Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team (EALT) scans websites and scores them We train developers on how to build accessible Web applications
13. Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team
14. Scanning tool gives each website a score
15. Web Accessibility Resource
16. Thank You Brett Pollak brettpollak.com