As higher education institutions work towar d greater digital accessibility\, it is helpful to understand the approach es of peers. By examining the aspects of Princeton's accessibility trainin g and its associated environmental supports\, colleagues can consider whic h practices they might adapt to their own institutions.
\n\nPrinceto n's holistic approach recognizes that training is a core component of succ essful digital accessibility efforts. In order to be effective\, training must result in new habits being applied. However\, skills taught outside o f the work itself\, without practice\, does not develop proficiency. Princ eton has put in place environmental supports that help ensure staff in a v ariety of roles apply digital accessibility best practices to their everyd ay work.
\n\nThe session will begin with a brief overview of the uni versity and the digital accessibility program to provide institutional con text. It will then present the development of the training and supporting environmental solutions that together ensure that IT and digital content a re accessible.
\n\nLike many other programs\, we have a small staff to support digital accessibility. By designing and leveraging environmenta l supports along with training\, we are able to broaden our reach. The pre sentation will examine how Princeton embeds training into our environment and takes training outside the classroom and builds it into everyday job t asks. Examples include procurement\, project funding and management\, webs ite editing\, content development\, application design\, testing\, and pre sentations and events.
\n\nWe will describe how the digital accessib ility team designed and implemented each support\, and provide measures of its effectiveness. By sharing Princeton's holistic training approach\, th e presenters hope to provide insights and ideas that will assist colleague s at other institutions in the development of their own solutions.
BEGIN:VALARM UID:38626266-3736-4664-b535-616237336462 ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:As higher education institutions work toward greater digital ac cessibility\, it is helpful to understand the approaches of peers. By exam ining the aspects of Princeton's accessibility training and its associated environmental supports\, colleagues can consider which practices they mig ht adapt to their own institutions.\n\nPrinceton's holistic approach recog nizes that training is a core component of successful digital accessibilit y efforts. In order to be effective\, training must result in new habits b eing applied. However\, skills taught outside of the work itself\, without practice\, does not develop proficiency. Princeton has put in place envir onmental supports that help ensure staff in a variety of roles apply digit al accessibility best practices to their everyday work.\n\nThe session wil l begin with a brief overview of the university and the digital accessibil ity program to provide institutional context. It will then present the dev elopment of the training and supporting environmental solutions that toget her ensure that IT and digital content are accessible.\n\nLike many other programs\, we have a small staff to support digital accessibility. By desi gning and leveraging environmental supports along with training\, we are a ble to broaden our reach. The presentation will examine how Princeton embe ds training into our environment and takes training outside the classroom and builds it into everyday job tasks. Examples include procurement\, proj ect funding and management\, website editing\, content development\, appli cation design\, testing\, and presentations and events.\n\nWe will describ e how the digital accessibility team designed and implemented each support \, and provide measures of its effectiveness. By sharing Princeton's holis tic training approach\, the presenters hope to provide insights and ideas that will assist colleagues at other institutions in the development of th eir own solutions. TRIGGER:-PT15M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR