Meeting on March 28, 2018

Present: Leonard, Christopher, Rachel, Heather, Mariette, Antonia

New: Meeting minutes

  • We decided that we will take notes at every meeting
  • Antonia is working on a school-wide accessibility website, and notes could be published there eventually
  • Note taking will be rotated every meeting

DSAB Student Symposium on April 13 (Leonard)

  • It’s going well… Still deciding on timing and presentations
  • Please reach out to committee for help

Commencement  (Heather)

  • Several students have already requested various accommodations
  • Some faculty members as well
  • Outreach soon to find dedicated volunteers that will work with this group of attendees

Accommodations policy for online teaching (Chris)

  • There has been some debate over what exactly would be accommodations granted in online courses?
  • Recommendations from OCR… but people with knowledge of online teaching and learning should create the rules
  • We discussed current online education requirements and accommodations
  • Maybe there could be general guidelines, and then decisions are made on a program or course basis?
  • We need to post more guidance on this for students and faculty somewhere (on website?)
  • Christopher will work with Brian Peterson on policy

Website Accessibility Review (Rachel)

  • We passed the review successfully!

Blackboard Ally (Antonia)

  • Too expensive for CUNY
  • Antonia will check if we could get the tool just for CUNY SPS?

CUNY SPS Accessibility Policies (all)

  • We discussed the current draft of our document.
  • Rachel and Christopher volunteered to work on the draft before next meeting, and send around for review.