Meeting date: Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 at 9 a.m.
On the agenda
- Word on the Street: Shelby Schumacher, UX specialist for the UMAC web strategy team, will present a Thom Thorpe-inspired roundup of news and notes as we begin the academic year.
- Accessibility updates: Terrill Thompson of UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will provide an update on the UW’s preparation to bring all websites into compliance with ADA rules by April 2026. Specific topics to be covered will include: What we’ve learned from a comprehensive inventory of the UW web estate (how many websites do we have anyway?); current efforts underway to prioritize our websites; and the availability of new tools, resources, and services, including DubBot (for automated accessibility checking), the UW Web Checklist (for manual checking), Deque University (for training on web accessibility), and a Student Web Accessibility Team (SWAT) that’s being trained in ATS to help with website accessibility efforts.