Accessibility Week!
Accessibility Week for Staff and Faculty
EZ Accessibility Checklist now available!
As of April 2024, a new amendment was added to the American Disabilities Act (ADA). This amendment requires all public institutions to be 100% accessible to users by April 2026 and establishes WCAG 2.1 AA as the quality rubric. The amendment includes all areas of the college, as well as both digital and physical materials.
Qualified individuals with disabilities must be afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same benefits and services within the same time frame as a person without a disability, with substantially equivalent or alternative ease of use.
This amendment includes, but is not limited to:
- all course materials regardless of copyright or course modality,
- all Blackboard courses,
- all publisher textbooks and content platforms,
- all third-party hardware and software,
- all documentation, digitally or physically handed to the public, including pathway information, handbooks, guides, list of major requirements, registration information, etc...,
- all forms,
- all PowerPoints, PDFs, tables, images, charts, graphs, and illustrations,
- all syllabi and schedules,
- all third-party websites,
- all audio closed captioned at 100% accuracy,
- and all videos closed captioned at 100% accuracy.
At CCRI we are committed to providing an inclusive community that is accessible to all. As a faculty, staff or an administrator, it is your responsibility to ensure that all persons have equal access to your digital and physical content, marketing, brochures, forms, auxiliary materials, handouts and websites in a timely manner.
Please join us for a hands-on webinars where we explore guidelines to creating accessible
materials. What you learn can be applied to MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat,
Modern Campus, Blackboard and many other software apps. Also learn about Universal
Design for Learning (UDL).
These workshops will help all employees at CCRI learn about accessibility requirements and prepare for the April 2026 deadline.
Digital credentials and Knight Points are available to those who attend! These credentials can be used in your annual reviews and/or promotion packages.
Summer Accessibility Offerings
Choose the Dates and Times That Work for You!
June and July Webinars
We are offering four different webinars in June and July. Mix and match to meet your schedule.
Accessibility and Blackboard
- June 9 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
- July 7 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
Design Accessible Digital Documents in MS Word
- Jun 10 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
- July 8 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
Creating Accessible PowerPoints and Video Captioning
- June 11 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
- July 9 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
Learn Universal Design for Learning - Engagement
- June 12 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
- July 10 at 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm
Can't Make Any of These Dates?
Guide to Creating Accessible Digital Documents will walk you through the basics of accessibility for digital documentation.