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Whose responsibility is it anyway? Creating an accessibility education program for employees

From procurement to deployment, accessibility has often been seen as someone in IT or communication’s wheelhouse. Without proper decentralization, no organization will successfully overcome ingrained processes which impede full accessibility compliance. Enter the employee accessibility education program! Having an easy-to-access accessibility wiki has enabled me to slowly decentralize accessibility from one person’s job to many. […]

Building a culture of content accountability

For better or for worse (mostly the latter), distributed authorship models seem to be here to stay in higher ed, along with all of the risks that come with them: “zombie” content, accessibility issues, widely varying voice and tone, and overwhelming content debt, just to name a few. At Roosevelt University, we’ve done our best […]

Creating sustainably: How much digital content is enough?

As a parent of a high school student, we are deep in the throes of admissions communications. The accelerating wave of digital content is increasing the energy demands on an already overextended planet. There is a perception that digital is less environmentally costly than cutting down trees for paper. Yet the energy costs for our […]