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IT Accessibility Curriculum and Resources

Welcome to the IT Accessibility Curriculum and Resources Web Site

New! Policy Comparisons: NYS-P08-005 v. Section 508 and WCAG 2.0

Accessibility Note: If you require accommodations in viewing documents available in a particular format (e.g. Microsoft Word), please e-mail Joel Obuchowski or Estelle Council.

Note to Visitors (Updated 11/27/2009): Extensive revisions are underway on this Web site.  At this point, **Changes are occurring that may affect our main navigation bar. ***   Content updates will follow *** shortly ***. If you need to verify specific content, please e-mail Joel Obuchowski or Estelle Council.

The New York State Forum (The Forum) is comprised of a network of public officials, State government organizations, and corporate partners. The Forum's mission is the promotion of policies and practices for effective, equitable and secure use and management of information resources in New York State government at all levels.

The Internet has become an essential channel for government information and service delivery, and the Forum's interests have evolved to incorporate issues surrounding the state's effective use of the Internet to deliver constituent information and services.

Though the NYS Forum deals with many issues, few have the potential for affecting so many of New York's constituents — individual and business alike — as the development of state and local government web sites. This widespread impact and the need to achieve equitable access for all led the Forum to create the IT Accessibility Workgroup.

This Workgroup maintains a web site to help web developers, especially in New York Government, meet design demands for accessible web sites. This site contains tutorials, resources, commentary, and examples on New York's policy and standards for accessible web sites, curricula for workshops, and seminars on Web Accessibility topics. Ideally, the web site serves not only as a resource, but also as a strong example of the principles presented there.

 

CURRENT EVENTS and NEW MATERIALS

Meetings/Events: Accommodations

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November 12, 2009
Writing for the Web

This half-day session was presented by Kathy Farrell from Empire State College and Kristen Albright from the Division of Parole. Due to popular demand, we are investigating the feasibility of holding this session again in January, 2010.

 

November 6, 2009

"WebEx - Tips for Presenting Online to People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired"

While WebEx does not yet support screen readers, they have distributed a document that provides assistance to accommodate participants who are blind or visually impaired. For the document in PDF format, please visit this link: WebEx Tips

September 25, 2009

The Committee made a presentation to the NYS Training and Development Council on "Accessibility for Web-Delivered Training." Debi Orton, outgoing Committee co-chair, and Joel Obuchowski, incoming Committee co-chair, provided a framework for thinking about what might be needed to make content in various delivery formats accessible.

You can find copies of the presentation and resource list here: