Existing Content: Digital Solutions

  1. UConn will strive to make its digital solutions and their content fully accessible.
  2. Set up a system to review and ensure the accessibility of its most highly trafficked digital products
    1. Evaluation tool: Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) or other equivalent accessibility documentation; Inspect; Accessible Name and Description Indicator (ANDI); WAVE (WebAim); other semi-automated testing tools
  3. Test Results Reports will be distributed to Procurement, purchasing departments, and content authors, as applicable
    1. The IT Accessibility Coordinator will review the Test Results Reports with applicable staff
    2. The IT Accessibility Coordinator will make a recommendation regarding the product’s overall accessibility
      1. If product is found to be non-compliant, recommendation will be made for supplemental assistive or other technology
      2. If no supplement is available to bring product into compliance, there will be a consideration of other similar compliant products
  4. Applicable staff will develop a plan for remediation during the review of the Test Results Report with the IT Accessibility Coordinator and submit draft following the review
    1. The IT Accessibility Coordinator will review plan within five (5) business days of receipt
    2. At that point, the plan will either be approved or returned for revision
  5. Following approval of remediation plan, applicable staff are expected to implement the plan
  6. Quarterly reports of progress are to be submitted to the IT Accessibility Coordinator
  7. The IT Accessibility Coordinator will submit compiled report to the Director of Campus Technology Services and the Chief Information Officer.
  8. This report will be available upon request to other members of the University and the community.